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Question

PC crashing problem

May 16, 2015 5:13AM PDT

so i build my first pc about 4 months ago. 2 weeks ago a no posting issue started. i will be playing a game and the computer will just crash, cpu fan turns off but gpu and case fans keep running. every time i wiggle the sata port my ssd id pluged into the cpu fan will start back up and then i have to turn the power off and restart. after that it will come back on like nothing happened. i have checked the ram and replaced the ssd and reinstalled windows on the new ssd. still the same problem keeps happening. i have tried many sata ports and all the same result. i have come to the conclusion that my mother bored it bad. just wanted some more insight, anything helps.

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Tell more.
May 16, 2015 5:24AM PDT

I can't see any PC details. Sometimes it's a board, other times we run into cracked windows and this year I've running into a very high incident rate of "folk that don't know how to finish a Windows install." Let's read some details.
Bob

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update.
May 16, 2015 8:09AM PDT

my pc has a MSI A78M-E35 Mother bored. i did a little digging on the bored and have found others that had the same issue. i have installed windows 7 on 4 different computers so i know i installed it right. it has crashed 3 times today already during light use, and again all i have to do is beraly touch the sata cabble and the whole thing powers right back up.

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Reviews at link are unkind.
May 16, 2015 8:16AM PDT
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any ideas?
May 16, 2015 10:23AM PDT

well im sporting 8gigs balistic sport ram, AMD Athlon X4 760K, Sapphire Radeon R7 260X, and toshiba ssd. so any ideas of a replacement board that will support all my componets? i do have a mid sized tower that will take Micro ATX / ATX / Mini-ITX boards.

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Sure.
May 17, 2015 1:52AM PDT