Windows 10: Having problem with rebooting gaming pc

Hi, I was recently trying to reset and wipe this gaming pc I got from my little brother and it was left throughout the night to do this process, it was to wipe all personal data and do a full reboot. I woke up the next day to the process still loading, and nothing had changed since the night before. It had writing saying do not turn off this system while in reset or something like this, but I felt like I had no other choice but to turn the pc off and on to get rid of the screen prompt. But it put me in ms bios click 5 and I did research and a lot of people said to download windows onto a usb a

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PC reboots (no BSOD) on CPU stress

Hi fellow TPU members,

not too long ago, the box my gf's PC was transported in gave way on the stairs. Yes, you got it right, that sent a PC tumbling down a flight of steps alright.

Stuff broke. Also, stuff remained intact somehow.

I bought her a new case, new CPU cooler and we removed the floppy drive, so far so good. But the PC started crashing for no apparent reason, without a BSOD.

I tested:

• Memtest86+, left overnight, 0 errors
• Scanned the HDD for errors, nothing there
• Left FurMark burning up the GFX card and drawing some power, no problems there
• Ran Ubuntu from a Live CD doing nothing special, didn't crash
• Ran OCCT, Linpack, Prime95, all 3 caused reboots within minutes
• Oh, and I disabled "Restart on error" so I'm sure it's not a BSOD.

Now, I can still try and test something CPU intensive on Ubuntu, but my guess is the CPU didn't survive.
Before I do anything drastic like whippin' out the magic wallet and get her a new AMD quad, is there anything I didn't see?
I'm guessing the motherboard could be borkered as well, but can I check that other than replacing the CPU with a working one?
Any suggestions on which proggies I can use from an Ubuntu Live CD to stress the CPU?

 

Comfortably PC gaming from the couch suggestions.

Well guys I would like to hear some good suggestions for comfortably PC gaming from the couch. I have searched this forum and others and I can't believe that in 2014 there is still not a good way of doing this.

So please whether your suggestion is an Xbox controller, flat portable table top, or you have pictures of a custom design.... Shoot over your suggestions. Because PC gaming comfortably from the couch is on my new years resolution list. I will find away to do it this year.

Thanks.

 

Windows 10 rebooting during gaming

Hi,



Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community Forums. Your interest on Windows 10 is appreciated.

I understand the inconvenience that you are facing. We are glad to help you.



Please share this with us:

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  Is the issue occurring with a particular game or with all games?
  
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  Is the game compatible with Windows 10?
  
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  Are you trying to play online games?
  

I would suggest you to update the graphics card driver and check if it works fine:

Follow the steps:

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  Right click on start menu and tap on device manager.
  
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  Select display adapters from the list and hit enter.
  
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  Right click on the display adapters and select update.
  

Hope it helps. Do contact us for further queries. We will be happy to assist.



Thank you.