PC reboots while playing Steam Games

[ColdForce]

Hey guys

Since about a month ago now I was able to play every game on my computer without issues. One time, while playing CS:GO, my PC just powered off immediately and rebooted, that most have been beginning of October.

Since then I've been playing a lot LoL and did not have the issue. I am trying to play my Steam games again, but the very same error occurs every single time I play a game now. It happens not only in CS:GO but also in Little Inferno (which rly doesn't use a lot of either CPU or GPU) and Mark of the Ninja.

So I dedicated this weekend to fix it and tried the following:
- run Steam beta
- deactivated Steam ingame overlay
- reinstalled the games
- reinstalled Win8
- uninstalled GeForce Experience
- installed Win7
- using a graphics driver from half a year ago

Nothing is working.
I also ran memtest86+, Prime95 and FurMark for a couple of hours, they all don't report an error.

I can't think of anything else to do, and again, the problem only exists for Steam games. LoL and BF:BC2 (Origin) work flawlessly.

No component in my system is OC'd either.

Any ideas?

My specs:
Gigabyte Z77-D3H
16GB Kingston DDR3-1600 RAM
GeForce GTX 770
Intel i5-3570K

[ReBoot]

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/automatic-restart-windows-7.htm

[ColdForce]

thanks for your reply. I tried that already, it still just reboots without showing any error msg.
There is also nothing in the windows event protocol except the notice that the system crashed...

[Satoru]

It's likely a memory or a power supply issue

To test memory the only sure fire way is to pull out modules and test one at a time. memtest is notorious for false negatives.

Your video card could also be sucking too much power and causing your power supply to reset

[ColdForce]

I will try removing my RAM sticks individually, thx

the thing is investing in a new PSU is a lot of money for me and I want to be sure this really is the problem before I do it.

How likely is my PSU the source since way more complex games like BFBC2 in highest settings run without issues?

[Iceira]

well lets allso start with simple things ...how is temperature , that is importen in such problem ..bios try maybe to shutdown if fan fail or to hot cpu or other warning ...try speccy ..see option for all temp .. if that is the problem at all... if not then it is more safe to figure out next part

stop useing beta driver first ...only do that if you know there is a problem with device or program...

[Iceira]

My specs:
Gigabyte Z77-D3H ( check bios info...this is a most know how todo ) other driver could fix alot here ...
16GB Kingston DDR3-1600 RAM
GeForce GTX 770 ( use newest driver from nvidia) not beta... only if newest game require it
Intel i5-3570K

[Brood Agent 5]

i say there should make STEAM trade protection higher

[ColdForce]

The temperatures are fine, I'm checking them on my 2nd screen with Open Hardware Monitor.

Here is a turn of events though: A friend borrowed me his non steam version of Little Inferno and it just crashed my PC! :(

The BIOS is up to date, I forgot to mention it but updating it was actually the first thing I did trying to fix this.

I just checked the bios settings, there is no CPU warn limit or something but my CPU does not get warmer than 42°. (GPU not over 62°)

[tigerxs1]

u said youve win7 and win8, id load in steam on win7 give it a wirl rule out if its new operateing system/windows 8 - as fairly new out,you could try run loads of stuff /videos and audio see if it shutsdown under pressure(open loads of youtube vids in seperate pages)? the ram thing above id run 8gb for a while see if it happens then switch to the other two sticks n test for few days,windows update? in bios your cpu temp idle should be ruffly 25-35,if its like 35-50 then you wana reset the cpu with new thermal compund but most m-boards beep when to hot b4 shutdown,do virus scan too

[ColdForce]

I tried it on both win7 and win8. my system never crashes except in CSGO, Little Inferno and Mark of the Ninja (maybe other Steam games as well, I haven't tried). However, LoL and BFBC2 run fine on highest settings possible.

I will remove 2 of my memory sticks now and see if that helps, thx for your help guys!!

[ColdForce]

So either all of my RAM is dead or the issue is somewhere else.
Pairs of RAM don't work and I'm currently testing them individually. Could it be that the Dual Channel mode is causing the issue?

[ColdForce]

as it turns out it's definitely not the RAM (except all 4 sticks failed).

is there any way to figure out if it is the PSU, CPU, GPU or MB's problem?

[Iceira]

okay try test this with newest game that require best gfx output and use nvidia experiance optimale settings...if u crash there with 3-4 best gfx game you have then you do have problem...

and then its maybe win8 or win7 problem you have with steam administrator problem
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5688-IFHZ-2170&l=english

some games need allso a reinstall wtih this new setting...

test admin before u try uac solution...that have solve it for many user before

[Cyan Iggy]

Very helpful thanks.

[crunchyfrog]

0xBuSf4hReR eredeti hozzászólása:

as it turns out it's definitely not the RAM (except all 4 sticks failed).

is there any way to figure out if it is the PSU, CPU, GPU or MB's problem?

Hang on - if all 4 sticks failed, then it's likely it IS your RAM. That's the point.