Since it's sudden all it would take is one of those spikes.
No mention of the machine age so start with a deep clean and heatsink compound replacement (ALL heatsinks).
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Every time I turn on my PC it shuts down within the day.
This always happens after a night's sleep or a day of school.
After the initial start up it can take 20 minutes or 2 hours for the sudden shutdown to occur, but through some experiments I've come to conclude that after the shutdown it can go for 1 week without any trouble; it just keeps on running like nothing happened. It is as if my PC requires the shutdown to be able to run properly.
The specs of my PC are:
- Maximus VII Hero motherboard
- GeForce GTX 960 graphics card
- 16 GB of RAM
- 1 TB of storage
- Inten Core i7 CPU
- CX500M power supply
(Let me know if more information is required to understand my issue)
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It says GTX 960 GAMING 4G (G5) on it, all from MSI Gaming Series.
Given the issues, no mention of age of if you do your own repairs I'm going to write it's time to take this up with the maker of this PC. Something's broke.
When you say it just shuts down, do you mean it just dies or Windows shuts down on its own?
"Every time I turn on my PC it shuts down within the day."
"I've come to conclude that after the shutdown it can go for 1 week without any trouble"
Does that mean your not turning the PC off for 1 week?
As I wrote earlier, I did an experiment in which I left it on for a whole week and it had no problems. Apparently... it "requires" a sudden reboot(?)