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NOM · Sun, 3rd-Feb-2013, 7:49 PM

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Originally Posted by breadfan

Check your case. My last case had a short on the power switch circuit. It would turn off any time I plugged something into a USB port (because the power cable ran behind the USB ports) as well as other occasional/random times.

I had this problem when I bought a new case, the paint on the screws were making my computer turn off randomly, so i nicked some screws without paint (go them for free too) an it is working "kind of fine" since then.

edit did the cardboard test, IT DOES HELP and it isn't that hard

mGGAequitas · Sun, 3rd-Feb-2013, 8:24 PM

Story sounds very similar to my own year long struggle against my stupid computer crashing. Try running memtest to see if the ram/ ram slots are the issue.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...memtest86.html

Fadey · Mon, 4th-Feb-2013, 7:29 AM

What part of the pc was the temp program monitoring? 40-50 is fine for cpu but you dont want it going upto 90.. if its hitting 90 its definitely a heating issue. May need to look at re applying the cpu heat sink etc. If its the gpu hitting 90 that's not horrible. Random restarts can be a PSU on the way out as well , I had the exact same problem with my pc before I got my laptop. Would just restart randomly wouldnt make a difference if I was in a game of just on the desktop was very annoying to trouble shoot >.<.

**|Erasmus|** · Mon, 4th-Feb-2013, 7:36 AM

well, if it is a faulty thermo sensor, hopefully the new mobo does the trick... shouldn't usually spike very quickly up to 90 like you said if nothing much is happening.

ROOT`iaguz · Tue, 5th-Feb-2013, 2:07 AM

I have concluded that the issue is a crap processor. So yea Mafia was right just buy a new PC.

Thanks everyone for the responses. This community continues to be as useful and kind as ever.