Ok so I build this new computer(specs in my signature) last week. It ran fine for the first 3-4 days but since the last 3-4 days it simply restarts right in the middle of gaming.
It first happened when playing BF3 so I thought the problem was with that game. I googled and found that many people had a similar problem and there were a couple of fixes given which I tried and it worked, the game was working fine.
Then suddenly the next day the same problem happened while playing GTA IV and MW3 too. So I thought maybe some problem is there with the hardware itself. So I downloaded apps like Unigine Heaven, Prime95, LinX and MemTest.
Heaven runs fine with everything maxed and GPU reaches max temps of 60-61. But the others give me very erratic results. Sometimes Prime95 and LinX work fine for 30-40min after which I stop the tests as the system seems stable. But MemTest on the other hand gives very negative results. It always gets stuck at 3-4% and never proceeds beyond that.
So I thought maybe something is wrong with the RAM. Thus I tried fixing it by changing the RAM timings from the BIOS. They were at 11-11-11-28-1T and I put it at 9-9-9-24-2T. Now the interesting part is that the timings did not change after I Saved & Exit. But now the system was running fine with LinX running 10 times with the highest RAM usage setting available which used almost all of my RAM and the CPU was also at 100% load. Just for personal satisfaction I even ran Heaven along with this and everything was running absolutely fine. This was today afternoon.
But while playing BF3 sometime back the problem again started and now nothing that I did before is working. So what to do now guys? What do you think is faulty? RAM,CPU,PSU or something else? Please reply fast
Thanks
It first happened when playing BF3 so I thought the problem was with that game. I googled and found that many people had a similar problem and there were a couple of fixes given which I tried and it worked, the game was working fine.
Then suddenly the next day the same problem happened while playing GTA IV and MW3 too. So I thought maybe some problem is there with the hardware itself. So I downloaded apps like Unigine Heaven, Prime95, LinX and MemTest.
Heaven runs fine with everything maxed and GPU reaches max temps of 60-61. But the others give me very erratic results. Sometimes Prime95 and LinX work fine for 30-40min after which I stop the tests as the system seems stable. But MemTest on the other hand gives very negative results. It always gets stuck at 3-4% and never proceeds beyond that.
So I thought maybe something is wrong with the RAM. Thus I tried fixing it by changing the RAM timings from the BIOS. They were at 11-11-11-28-1T and I put it at 9-9-9-24-2T. Now the interesting part is that the timings did not change after I Saved & Exit. But now the system was running fine with LinX running 10 times with the highest RAM usage setting available which used almost all of my RAM and the CPU was also at 100% load. Just for personal satisfaction I even ran Heaven along with this and everything was running absolutely fine. This was today afternoon.
But while playing BF3 sometime back the problem again started and now nothing that I did before is working. So what to do now guys? What do you think is faulty? RAM,CPU,PSU or something else? Please reply fast
Thanks 
