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PC randomly restarts out of nowhere (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/buildapc@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60545062

As title suggests.
Coming home the other day I find my PC started to restart out of nowhere, with no warning before or errors afterwards. I haven't changed anything and haven't had this problem before.

Any suggestions on what to do?

Device specs:
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz 3.60 GHz
Installed RAM 64.0 GB
Storage 233 GB HDD ST9250315AS, 112 GB SSD OCZ-VERTEX2, 466 GB SSD Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12 GB)
System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
OS Windows 10

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Historically, I had a callout to a place where the machine rebooted whenever a train went past: crappy PSU with a dry joint.

Also a machine with an underspecified PSU that couldn't provide enough power. A physical or optical drive being accessed were enough to tip it over the edge.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Wow thats.. specific lol.
    PSU is 700w which I believe counts as "overkill"

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah, about that... I had 110w cpu, max 200w gpu, other than that only minor things that don't have much power draw and my at thst time 800w PSU was the minimum.

    I upgraded gpu, sometimes 300w spikes and that was it. Now have 1000w PSU. And since it happened so randomly clearly I'd think it's your PSU. 700w would be fine if it was guaranteed, but it isn't.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Got it. Its weird that it never happened before but its good to know what it could be. Memtest is running while I'm away but if that shows nothing I'm afraid its the PSU

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    I'm not sure how it is with Nvidia, but with AMD you can have the metric overlay running or even logging, so you could see if it happens on power drain.

    For me it mostly happened only in one game (everspace 2) and only certain scenes and then not even always.

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