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"Hi there,\n\nI have had the PC in question for four years.\n\nThe PC boots into ANY operating system fine. Sometimes will even work for a good while before it reboots, or even worse, just goes black with no output via the display and hangs. Other times it will restart five minutes after being turned on.\n\nCould this be down to overheating, or is it more likely a hardware issue (vis-a-vis, the black screens)\n\nIt is important to emphasize, that this computer has been wiped multiple times and using with Ubuntu, and Linux Mint. It is currently running Windows 10. Regardless, this issue still occurs.\n\nBy the by, it is also worth mentioning that I am in no way heavily using this machine. It crashes when browsing, or even going through windows installing software etc. But it will not crash if I just leave it.\n\nI have doubts of it being an overheat issue, as HW monitor has temps at 30C for CPU and slightly higher for GPU (40C ish, idle). I also took the cooler off the CPU to clean it. Furthermore, I tried watching 4k videos on YouTube to see if it would crash, nothing.\n\nCould this issue be a GPU failure? And if so, why is it not crashing when under load. But seemingly randomly?\n\nAny advice would be much appriciated.\n\nThanks\n\n- Nick"
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