Pc randomly shuts off all power shortly after booting up any game (like PoE or D4).
Posted by Street_Balance_7548@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 9 comments
As in the title pc runs fine and without any issues up until either of the above is being ran. Shortly after booting up games the entire power to the unit gets cut off and i have to reset the PSU to get the box up and running again when switching the PSU on the motherboard lights up orange LEDs but boots up fine
ThirdhandTaters@reddit
Either a dying PSU, something is drawing too much power or something is overheating at the time of those games launching.
Find a computer repair shop and ask if they can test your PSU to see if it still healthy.
If something is drawing too much power then you need to find it and deal with it. The CPU, RAM and GPU can all be given more power than they were designed for, if you have any overclocks then turn them down or completely off. Almost everything in the computer can be given more power than normal, but they are more advanced to do that just a simple program like ryzen master or afterburner.
With overheating you would notice the whole computer slowing down, and if it keeps heating up and continuing to get slower it would eventually shut off to protect the components.
If all else fails then just ask the computer repair shop to see if they can figure out what is wrong.
Hungry-Breakfast-304@reddit
Same thing happened to me turned out it was a bad driver from AMD and was fixed when they updated it
Street_Balance_7548@reddit (OP)
This seems very possible I’ll have a look again later when i have a minute, thanks
Street_Balance_7548@reddit (OP)
I have just tried to restart it again and now it just refuses to boot completely all the fans are running and there’s power going through but none of the usb ports are working and there’s no output from any of the monitor ports I’ll see if i can get it to any repair place and get it checked up Thanks
ThirdhandTaters@reddit
Unfortunately that sounds like the motherboard is dead. Hopefully the shop gives you better news.
Hungry-Breakfast-304@reddit
This used to happen to me I had a bad driver that was sending way too much power which would force a shutdown after a clean wipe of drivers and reinstall of new ones I fixed it
theS1l3nc3r@reddit
This was common on B3/450 when they came out. The issue then was the bios. But in general this would either be PSU or GPU.
_lefthook@reddit
Bad PSU maybe?
benlinf@reddit
Sounds like over current protection. Some component (or combination of components) are probably trying to use more power than your psu can supply.
We'd need all your pc specs to be sure of anything though.