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Having random restarts and getting BSOD afterwards?
Hello all, I'm finally opening a thread about an issue im having for 5-6 months.
I bought a partially new system about 6 months ago. My old parts were bought in Nov 2010.
My old parts were ASUS GTX 470, Thermaltake Litepower 700 Psu and Thermaltake Element T Case.
After buying the new system. I started having random restarts, no warnings no BSOD. Sometimes my computer
just shut itself down, didnt open for 10 min (needed to plug the psu adapter off and on). I researched a bit, asked for help in forums. And decided it was a PSU issue. And i finally bought a new Corsair CX750 750w 80+ bronze (4-5 days ago). I did the replacement myself, it seemed like the issue was fixed. But i had the issues again and again. Auto-restart on system failure was open, i turned it off so i could see BSOD. But today i had 2 new restarts, no BSOD but, when i logged on windows, i saw a warning on each, saying that "Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown"
So i thought these are considered as BSOD. I will upload the dump file. And i thought i was going crazy when searching the problem. I checked almost everything. I have no temperature problems.
And most importantly, the restarts i experienced before didnt have these "unexpected shutdown" warnings. Those were just plain restarts and recorded as Event ID 6008 - "The previous shutdown at xxxx was unexpected." But these two are new, they are recorded like this;
A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Cache Hierarchy Error
Processor ID: 2
Event ID 18
Source : WHEA Logger
I know i'm repeatedly saying this but i must say it again, restarts are completely random. Sometimes when listening to music, sometimes when playing video games, sometimes watching a video, sometimes browsing the internet, EVEN sometimes when idle.
Thanks, I don't know if i gave all the details properly, please correct me if I'm wrong
Edit :
I had two restarts in last 2 hours with no warnings even though turning off the auto-restart option
For some reason the SystemInfo program didn't do its job, im adding my system specs manually here;
MOBO > ASUS M5A99X EVO - American Megatrends 0901, 02.12.2011
CPU & Cooler > Stock AMD FX-8150 - NO OC
MEMORY > PATRIOT 8GB(4X2)GAMER II SECTOR 5 DDR3 1333MHZ CL9 XMP 1.2 DUAL KIT
POWER SUPPLY > CORSAIR CX750 80+ Bronze
VIDEO CARD > Single ASUS GTX470
HDDs/Optical drives > 3.5" 1TB Barracuda Sata 3.0 32MB Cache 7200Rpm + 160 GB SAMSUNG HDD
O/S > Win7 64 Bit SP1
Case > THERMALTAKE ELEMENT T
Last edited by Mooshie; 10 Feb 2013 at 15:43. Reason: Added system specs