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PC Rebooting while playing Portal 2
Hello people, first time posting in the fourm I recently finished building my first "gaming" nothing astronomically powerful just something better than my 8 year old xp machine. I've built it from the ground up and have had no issues until recently. I installed 3 games on my machine: Minecraft, Portal, and Portal 2. Everything but Portal 2 runs just fine, but when I play Portal 2 (Most graphically intensive game I own) my computer randomly decides to restart itself in the middle of the game. When it powers back on it boots to post telling me it shut itself down due to a power surge from an unstable power supply. I know I have a safe, steady power supply with a surge protector backing it up. Keep in mind this is ONLY when I play Portal 2. I monitored the temps of my equipment and nothing is getting too hot. The hottest component in my system while playing Portal is my GPU which hovers around 54*C (within operating temp). My drivers are all up to date. I did a diagnostic test using a program called "GPU Caps Viewer" Where it tested my GPU while putting it under load. It peaked at 80*C where I stopped the test. This started getting me thinking, if it's not failing when being put through the test that makes it work even harder, why is it failing with Portal? Maybe it isn't my gpu after all? I'm stumped.
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