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My computer is doing weird poo poo and rebooting on mouse clicks, or just after 40 minutes of playing low end games like The Long Dark ,Total War Rome 2. These games will crash when clicking on the mouse for any reason, or just fail after 40min. The computer just clicks, cuts power, and then reboots as if nothing happens. The mouse takes about 20 seconds to get full sensitively afterwards. But has no problem running Metro Exodus, Horizon Zero Dawn for hours. I can run these games forever, put them in pause mode and walk away, for just let them sit idle. No crashes or reboots. I suspect this is a usb shock/grounding issue since my mouse is the newest piece of hardware but that doesnt make sense. What do I do to diagnose this problem further? Windows CPU: INTEL i5 7600k RAM: oof 16 gigs DDr something something Corsair MOBO: ASUS Prime Z270-A VCARD: Gerforce GTX 1080 an SSD
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Aug 22, 2021 06:37
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I'd try these steps in this order: -Make sure W10 is fully updated. -Run DDU https://www.wagnardsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3711 and then install the latest GPU drivers again. -Use onboard video temporarily. -Run http://hdsentinel.com/ to check SSD health. -Run http://memtest.org/ overnight to check RAM health. BTW what is your PSU make/model and how old is it? If it was failing it could cause reboots. Gaj posted:I suspect this is a usb shock/grounding issue since my mouse is the newest piece of hardware but that doesnt make sense. What do I do to diagnose this problem further? Your motherboard has a PS/2 port so you could try another older mouse temporarily if you have one. They also make USB to PS/2 port adapters.
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Aug 22, 2021 20:47
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Yeah check all your ports too, make sure none are damaged. Cord frayed on any USB device? Check both ends. Generally a short will shut the computer off without attempting to restart itself but not always. To be sure it restarts by itself yeah? Set bios to defaults. Reset cmos... Save your game often.
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Aug 24, 2021 20:27
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SSD clear, drivers cleared, mem test fine. I have fiddled around with moving the mouse to a new usb socket. The crashing went away for how long its been since I posted this thread. But now all games are crashing after 5 minutes. Its def a weird short and I think Imma just rebuild the system, keeping the vcard until they become non-extinct. Last post, then I guess mods can lock or let one more piece of advice in. In frustraion I reinstalled the nvidia drivers and changed mouse ports. No more crashes, at least for now. Gaj fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Aug 26, 2021 |
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Aug 26, 2021 16:09
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Good plan to rebuild. Take the whole board out even, gently clean it, then boot it on cardboard boxes to see if it restarts still. Take the power supply out to do that. You can quickly short the power on pins so nothing but power, mouse/kb and video are connected.
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Aug 26, 2021 18:38
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Another thought. Did you install mouse software for it? Maybe that's crashing?
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Aug 26, 2021 18:41
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What mouse and what software? Mouse software is all garbage and any of them instantly rebooting a system would not shock me at all.
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Aug 26, 2021 18:42
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The delay of dpi adjustment is the tell. Its as bad as "free DVD player" programs on prebuilts.
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Aug 26, 2021 19:02
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