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Question

PC shuts down once every time I turn it on

Feb 18, 2016 12:07PM PST

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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Clarification Request
Need more details.
Feb 18, 2016 1:32PM PST
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GeForce GTX 960 specification
Feb 18, 2016 2:44PM PST

It says GTX 960 GAMING 4G (G5) on it, all from MSI Gaming Series.

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Still too light on detail.
Feb 18, 2016 3:12PM PST

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.

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Clarification Request
More specific
Feb 19, 2016 4:21PM PST

When you say it just shuts down, do you mean it just dies or Windows shuts down on its own?

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Shutdown as in turns off
Feb 21, 2016 5:50AM PST

It just turns off without warning at any time of the day, but just once, and then it runs without problems.

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Answer
Question
Feb 21, 2016 7:53AM PST

"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?

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I did an experiment
Feb 22, 2016 8:40AM PST

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(?)

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Wag
Feb 22, 2016 9:17AM PST

You turn it off for 8/10 hrs.
Things cool and shrink.

You turn it on and things heat and expand.

Reseat all the cables and the video card and the ram....test.