Computer shutting down frequently

I recently started playing FFXIV, since then I started noticing frequent shutdown.

But it's not a complete shutdown, the image of my 2 monitors goes out along with the mouse and keyboard leds, and at the same time I hear a very loud fan sound coming from the video card. By holding the power button and forcing a complete shutdown, I am able to restart the computer normally.

Shutdowns only occur while playing FFXIV. I've tested it on Red Dead Redemption 2 with the graphics settings at maximum and nothing happened.

Today, August 27th, until 2pm it has already happened twice. Both times under the same circumstances: I had the game in the background, and when I returned to the game window, the computer shutdown.

At first I thought the problem could be power supply as my power supply was only 550w for an RTX 2060 Super, so I bought a new 750w EVGA and the problem still remains. I've already performed temperature tests and they don't show any worrisome variation.

My setup:
Motherboard: MSI A320M Gaming Pro
CPU: Ryzen 7 1700
Graphic Card: RTX 2060 Super
Power Supply: EVGA 750w
Bios Version: 7A39v1I

Not Square-Enix support, but I would check the Windows event log. (Windows menu, type 'Event', pick 'Event Viewer', open the 'Windows Logs' folder, and check 'System'. It might also be worth checking under Applications and Services Logs, and looking at Hardware Events.)

Either way, if something's going wrong at a system level, it's unlikely FFXIV is the root cause; it may be the trigger that touches off some other system issue (and based on what you say, probably is), but if it's happening to your system overall -- including, it seems, the USB bus shutting down (such that your mouse and keyboard LEDs go poof) -- it's almost got to be something at a deeper level that's the actual underlying issue. :(

(Like an allergy; the underlying problem is the allergy, but FFXIV is the allergen that causes the allergic reaction. If that makes sense.)

I just checked the System log and found only this "Critical Level" repeated for every time the computer shut down: "The system was restarted without a proper shutdown first. This error can be caused when the system stops responding, crashes or runs out of energy unexpectedly."

And in the Hardware logs there is nothing, the list is empty.

Thanks for the allergy analogy, it makes a lot of sense.

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Originally Posted by mef1stho

I just checked the System log and found only this "Critical Level" repeated for every time the computer shut down: "The system was restarted without a proper shutdown first. This error can be caused when the system stops responding, crashes or runs out of energy unexpectedly."

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"Hey, Windows, why did you crash and restart?"

"I restarted without saving! This might be because I crashed."

"...kay. Thanks, buddy. Big help."

At any rate... my next step were I in your shoes would honestly probably be to haul out a burn-in test and run that overnight. (Burn-in tests try to exercise as many things as possible and log as they do, so you can see if and where things break.) But that can be a pain if you don't have something like PassMark already around to use. :/

Check for driver updates. Might be an easy fix.

Unfortunately I tried it and it didn't work, I currently have my GPU replaced with a GTX 1050 TI from my girlfriend, and she is using my RTX 2060 Super.

Since Sunday there has been no shutdown on my computer or hers.

Greetings fellow Eorzean! We apologize for the delay in response to this issue.

Based on current information, the fact that changing out the video card has caused the issue to stop might be some indicator with either the video card, power supply or possibly the motherboard. Additionally, it also could be related to some anomaly with the combination of hardware components causing some sort of confliction.

We would like to gather a system report of your PC's configuration to see what might be causing to the problem. Go to the 'Config' option on the Final Fantasy XIV launcher and to the right of 'System Information' click on 'Display'. Copy and paste the details shown and reply back with those specifics.

Thank you for visiting the Final Fantasy XIV Technical Support Forums.

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