Ever since I've started playing Dark Souls II I've been experiencing computer freezing and sudden reboots (at seemingly random intervals, between 15 minutes to several hours). The screen just freezes or the computer spontaneously reboots. Sometimes only Dark Souls II itself freezes but I can still ctrl-alt-delete out of it and restart the game (might be unrelated?).
I tried installing latest GPU drivers. Ran memtest86 (all tests passed) to check my RAM. HD Tune Pro also says my drives are seemingly healthy (although in lists the status of the Spin Up Time of my 1TB game drive as "failed", but the drive seems to work fine).
Only thing I got out of the Windows Event Viewer is a critical error from the Kernel-Power source stating the computer has restarted because the system "didn't react or there was a power failure". Seems to be the standard reaction when Windows can't figure out wtf happened.
WhoCrashed does not find any mini-dumps of the crashes so I guess they're not BSODs.
Specs:
CPU: Core i7 4770K @ 4.2ghz
RAM: 16GB Kingston
GPU: AMD HD7950
HDD: 128GB Crucial m4 SSD, 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3
PSU: Cooler Master Real Power M620
Maybe my PSU is dying on me, but it's hard to say for sure. Any way to narrow down the list of possibly failing hardware?
Have you checked that it's not overheating?
Temps are all normal. My GPU doesn't break 70 degrees and my CPU rarely comes near 60. All other components are around 30.
I've had some of these but never found solution. Maybe you have and connection error or your PSU is faulty. PC can simply freeze or restart when not getting enough power.
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