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System unexpectedly shuts down followed by a critical hardware failure.

System unexpectedly shuts down followed by a critical hardware failure.

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04-13-2025, 08:57 PM
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I was sitting there today and thought about playing a game I hadn't played in nearly a year. I set up Rust and spent about an hour and a half in the game. Meanwhile, a storm began forming nearby, making me worried my PC might shut down due to a power issue. After two hours, everything seemed normal until suddenly my computer went black and closed completely. I assumed it was another power outage, but it restarted on its own. I checked the Event Viewer and saw an error right after the shutdown. I’m puzzled—my CPU had been overclocked a year ago, and I’d run multiple one-hour sessions with RealBench without any crashes. My GPU overclock also performed well during similar sessions. I haven’t updated BIOS or chipset drivers in about six months. The only change was installing the NVIDIA driver 531.18 and Rust recently. Could something else be causing this crash? I’m also wondering if my CPU fan issue might be the culprit. Sometimes when I power on the PC, it doesn’t detect the fan cable, showing a CPU Fan ERROR. I’ve tried re-seating it, but it keeps happening every few months—restarting fixes it.
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04-13-2025, 08:57 PM #1

I was sitting there today and thought about playing a game I hadn't played in nearly a year. I set up Rust and spent about an hour and a half in the game. Meanwhile, a storm began forming nearby, making me worried my PC might shut down due to a power issue. After two hours, everything seemed normal until suddenly my computer went black and closed completely. I assumed it was another power outage, but it restarted on its own. I checked the Event Viewer and saw an error right after the shutdown. I’m puzzled—my CPU had been overclocked a year ago, and I’d run multiple one-hour sessions with RealBench without any crashes. My GPU overclock also performed well during similar sessions. I haven’t updated BIOS or chipset drivers in about six months. The only change was installing the NVIDIA driver 531.18 and Rust recently. Could something else be causing this crash? I’m also wondering if my CPU fan issue might be the culprit. Sometimes when I power on the PC, it doesn’t detect the fan cable, showing a CPU Fan ERROR. I’ve tried re-seating it, but it keeps happening every few months—restarting fixes it.

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