Solve : PC RESTARTS ON IT'S OWN! HELP!?

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Answer» My pc started restarting or crashing or whatever you call it this early FEBRUARY. frequen crashes in games. it's a new rig that my friend built for me and it's only 3months old. here are the specs: Mobo: Gigabyte F2A58M-DS2 Processor: AMD A8-5500 GPU: Radeon R7 240 Series Ram: Kingston HyperX Fury 4gb 1866 HDD: WD 1TB PSU: Corsair VS450 The problem started when i played DOTA 2. monitor suddenly went black, when it started again it SAID that "windows did not shutdown properly." then have 3 given options: "Safe mode, Safe mode with net working, safe mode with command prompt and start windows normally." i don't know what started it. please help! This should probably be posted in hardware. Quote monitor suddenly went black If it is consistently that, then it sounds like a bad PSU to me. Do you have another one you can swap in?Moved to hardware forum, duplicate thread deleted.Thanks for the early reply.. didn't cross my mind that it'd be hardware failure. I got a spare psu, and I'll try swapping it.. thanks again..My old psu doesn't work anymore.. what do you think MADE bad psu to be the cause? My fans didn't die during the process.If it happens mainly when playing games then it is more likely a temperature issue. What kind of cooling are you running? I know your buddy built it for you so it would be hard to answer, but did he properly apply thermal grease? What is the ambient temperature in your room? Admittedly a 450w PSU is a little low these days, but you are only running 1 video card and the rest of your gear is pretty standard so your power supply should be fine. If your crashes HAPPEN evenly randomly from desktop to internet to games then I'd suggest the PSU, but that does not seem the case here. That "Windows didn't shutdown properly" messege is common and normal every time your computer is just turned off, whether from this issue or if you just turn off the power strip so that is nothing to worry about. -Mal

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My pc started restarting or crashing or whatever you call it this early FEBRUARY. frequen crashes in games.

it's a new rig that my friend built for me and it's only 3months old. here are the specs:

Mobo: Gigabyte F2A58M-DS2
Processor: AMD A8-5500
GPU: Radeon R7 240 Series
Ram: Kingston HyperX Fury 4gb 1866
HDD: WD 1TB
PSU: Corsair VS450

The problem started when i played DOTA 2. monitor suddenly went black, when it started again it SAID that "windows did not shutdown properly." then have 3 given options: "Safe mode, Safe mode with net
working, safe mode with command prompt and start windows normally." i don't know what started it. please help!
This should probably be posted in hardware.

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monitor suddenly went black

If it is consistently that, then it sounds like a bad PSU to me. Do you have another one you can swap in?Moved to hardware forum, duplicate thread deleted.Thanks for the early reply.. didn't cross my mind that it'd be hardware failure. I got a spare psu, and I'll try swapping it.. thanks again..My old psu doesn't work anymore.. what do you think MADE bad psu to be the cause? My fans didn't die during the process.If it happens mainly when playing games then it is more likely a temperature issue. What kind of cooling are you running? I know your buddy built it for you so it would be hard to answer, but did he properly apply thermal grease? What is the ambient temperature in your room?

Admittedly a 450w PSU is a little low these days, but you are only running 1 video card and the rest of your gear is pretty standard so your power supply should be fine. If your crashes HAPPEN evenly randomly from desktop to internet to games then I'd suggest the PSU, but that does not seem the case here.

That "Windows didn't shutdown properly" messege is common and normal every time your computer is just turned off, whether from this issue or if you just turn off the power strip so that is nothing to worry about.

-Mal

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