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Question

PC restarting while playing Video Games, Please Help

Mar 18, 2018 12:36PM PDT

Hello everyone,

My PC (Desktop PC) is restarting while playing Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition or any other games for over 1 month. System (Win 10) saying PC needs to restart and check for errors suddenly while ingame after couple or more hours in. Game freezing also for couple of seconds at some points.

PC Specs:

1.Zotac GTX 1050 ti 4 gb GPU (Bought on NOV 2017 and latest drivers installed)
2.Intel i5 7500 3.40 Ghz CPU (Bought on NOV 2017)
3.Zion Blaze DDR 4 8 g.b Ram (Bought on NOV 2017, replaced last week thinking it was ram problem)
4.Seagate Barracuda 1 TB HDD (Bought couple of days back as PC was restarting with disk check error and last HDD was from 2014). Now disk checking error is gone tho.
5.Windows Home 10 64 Bit
6.PSU ( A Cheap 600 watt PSU, couple of years old i guess )

Two engineer's are also not able to troubleshoot the problem properly.One told to change Ram, another HDD ( Both of which i changed ).

Please advise guys.Is it GPU or CPU or PSU Problem?

Post was last edited on March 18, 2018 12:47 PM PDT

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Answer
Without knowing the PSU make model and age.
Mar 18, 2018 12:51PM PDT

It is of course suspect. But then again there are issues with drivers and games that can cause reboots. This means that no one has a good chance of nailing this one.

So what to do? Take all advice and decide what you want to try. Old PCs tend to get cranky and I generally won't go near any 5+ year old gear today. It's too time consuming. I only go forward if it works after a clean install with the drivers from makers. At no time do I consider driver finders or optimizers.

I always get my SPECCY report to check for issues that we see there. The Seagates pop up too often with read errors that can cause Windows to just boot. This will also let me see temperatures.

If you don't read your own reports, share it with members here. How? Read:
https://www.piriform.com/docs/speccy/using-speccy/publishing-a-speccy-profile-to-the-web

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PSU
Mar 18, 2018 1:12PM PDT

Its Frontech PSU , not expensive as Corsair or Coolermaster tho. So if i change my PSU to a brand PSU will my PC stop rebooting?

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Maybe.
Mar 18, 2018 1:32PM PDT

I guess I was not clear enough. No good tech or engineer will agree what it is here.

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Suggestion
Mar 18, 2018 1:46PM PDT

So what do i do in this situation freind?

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Take what advice you find and decide on your own.
Mar 18, 2018 2:24PM PDT

The PSU is still unknown as we have a name but no details on model number, age etc. No one can tell you this is it or that is it.

You have to work this as any other cranky PC and swap out what's suspect. Once you fix it you can then tell the owner what it was.

This can really rankle folk that want their PC diagnosed without swaps or letting the tech or engineer work the problem PC. But the reasons why this is is historic. PCs started with little diagnostics and it never was addressed. The number of times I found the RAM tests to pass and we swapped in a matched pair of sticks that fixed it is annoying.

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Changing PSU today
Mar 18, 2018 7:58PM PDT

I understand. Today i'm changing to a better PSU , also get a better cooling cabinet and keeping my fingers crossed.

Thanks again for your suggestion Happy