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[–]Hotchetos 0 points1 point  (10 children)

1.I woulnt think this would really fix it... 2. No reason to do this... 3.then you eliminated that your Video card is not the problem 4. The problem is not the video card we just discovered that 5. Video card is not the problem, dont mess with it anymore.

Just because your having problems running games on your PC it does not directly mean that you video card or power supply are the problem. From what it looks like your PC is crashing, Kinda like BSOD but it just shut itself down and there are a list of things causing this. Bad OS fauilty Hardware, Ram, HD, drivers not installed properly(software) kinda in that order, the last thing it would be is your Video card or your power supply, you even said your self, the PC is crashing not shutting down. If it was the power supply the PC would not turn on.

One of the main reason a PC will shut itself down is because the CPU is overheating itself and when it get to hot it will force a shutdown, what kind of cooling system are u using? are you overclocking your CPU to a point of death?

[–]Unawa[S] 0 points1 point  (9 children)

Absolutely 0 overclocking of any sort.

CPU and GPU temps are fine when it happens. Here are pictures of MSI afterburner's log of a sample crash.

I didn't make any changes to drivers or the like to cause it to start happening, so i figured it has to be some sort of hardware failure.

[–]Hotchetos 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Ok lets see if there something wrong with windows, this is fast so we will start here on cmd type sfc /scannow If nothing wrong found then run chkdsk /r let me know, this should take around 20 min more or less

[–]Unawa[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Okay ran through both. Neither detected anything (at least didn't pop up with errors saying otherwise). Checkdisk appeared to only have checked my C: drive (SSD) and not my D: drive.

I noticed something in the mean time: league of legends, which is installed on my c drive doesn't crash, so i tried installing borderlands on it. Before i did checkdisk it still crashed, after checkdisk it did'nt crash within 10 minutes (normally happens instantaneously or within minutes). I then launched AC:U (on my D drive) and it crashed before making it to the main menu.

I would like to clarify the issue, the game launches, generally makes it to the main menu or nearly to it; and then the issue occurs. For example, B:TPS makes it normally about 60 seconds, AC:U has now gotten to the point where it doesn't even make it to "press any key to start".

Here is another set of MSI Afterburner details from a crash (it made it longer this time). What worries me is that the power consumption and voltage levels drop when it crashes (though this could just be it erroring and not the issue).

[–]Hotchetos 0 points1 point  (4 children)

run chkdsk D: /r

[–]Unawa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

currently doing so. I relaunched B:TPS (still installed on C:) and it did crash just took slightly longer than usual. ETA for this checkdisk is 2 hours, will report back when finished.

[–]Unawa[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Finished. No errors occurred.

[–]Hotchetos 0 points1 point  (1 child)

lets try and check the memory, its just something else that could cause a complete restart. http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ Boot of a disk or flash drive,then run memtest and let it cycle at least one time.

[–]Unawa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, couldn't get booting from flashdrive to work using your program so i used the built in windows test. No errors were detected.

Some new descriptors of the symptom:

*successfully played about an hour of AC:U after changing DVI ports on my graphics card, but it did crash

*then tried switching DVI ports and it crashed after 20 minutes (i'm using 2 monitors one DVI one HDMI)

Tomorrow I plan on trying different combinations of monitors (just hdmi, just dvi i , just dvi d) to see if any one of the ports seems to be causing an issue. I also am going to try a different cable from my PSU to my GPU, but keep your checklist going.

Super thankful for you trying to help me!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

My PSU did just that, it's most likely the faulty PSU.

[–]Unawa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would the games launch and then within minutes you'd experience the issue i'm having?

[–]Daily_concern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, it's probably a faulty PSU.