Hi,
For several weeks now I have had a strange problem where my PC will randomly black out and restart. It only happens while playing WoW, and from what I have noticed it only happens in the Chamber of Heart. The reboot usually happens when I have zoned in to the chamber and walked around for 5-10 seconds, and sometimes happens while I try to sit afk in the chamber for a longer period of time. That being said, I have sat afk for more than 30 minutes several times in there without the reboot happening. If the reboot does happen, it will usually repeat itself pretty fast if I log onto a character in the chamber, usually within a few seconds to a few minutes. When the reboot happens, it will sometimes (not always) attempt a repair on my C drive as it is booting up. Even when I moved WoW to my 2nd SSD, it still attempted a repair on the C drive during consequent reboots.
I have attempted almost any fix I can find on the internet that is even remotely connected to issues like these. No temperatures are abnormally high from what I can see using HWMonitor, and Iāve done several attempts at getting rid of the issue such as thorougly cleaning out the PC, making sure there are no loose cables, making sure drivers are updated and cleanly installed, and I even did a clean reinstall of Windows 10. The issue persists.
The Windows event log gives me a critical failure with event ID 41 and task category 63, which seems to point to the PSU not being able to deliver enough power. It is over 5 years old by now (and had a warranty of 5 years), however, I am logged into WoW in a different zone as Iām typing this, watching a stream on the 2nd monitor and having no issues at all, despite a reboot happening while in the Chamber of Heart before I made this thread. Iāve also been doing raids with 20+ players and several dungeons without the reboot happening, so if the problem would be the PSU it seems weird to me that it wouldnāt happen in more demanding situations in the game, but rather only in the chamber zone (even at night with few players there).
Any help greatly appreciated. Let me know if thereās something I can add to the thread to help with troubleshooting.