I'm posting this to seek out if someone has experienced similar behavior.
What happens is that when HWInfo64 is running PC all of sudden shuts off, like pulling power cord out from the wall socket, not a crash, power just cuts off.
It only happens when HWInfo64 is running and usually only when hardware load is minimal or none.
It has been happening two years as long as I have used HWInfo64
Way I use HWInfo64 is that I have only sensors running for monitoring purposes, settings are default pretty much, but polling interval I used to have at 250ms however it was changed some time ago so that I can't log anymore with 250ms interval which was very useful for single core CPU thread logging during game session and performance analysis.
Anyway no matter if I have logging on or not, PC randomly shuts off, but never under heavy load.
Only components that have been same during two years are Samsung SM951 M2 NVMe drive, Seasonic Platinum 460W fanless PSU and Kingston Hyper-X 2666Mhz CL15 DDR4, 4x4GB
Have experienced issue with two different setups with same Windows 8.1 install:
I7-6700
Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3
Geforce GTX 1050Ti
I7-8086K
Gigabyte Gaming K3
Geforce GTX 1080
Last crash was with MSI Afterburner running and HWInfo64 providing VRM temp and CPU fan speed for MSI Afterburner on screen display, game Assetto Corsa was running and I was adjusting car settings on track
Having MSI Afterburner running or not seems not to affect situation at all.
Gigabyte's fan control requires to run Gigabytes own software, 32bit EasyTuneEngineService, can't remember if I tested with that forced to off during these years, but I have done quite bit of testing eliminating variables so might of tested that too.
So HWInfo64 does not see much use for now on my system because of this issue and in high hopes I write here if someone would of experienced similar and has found solution or reason for this behavior, which might save a little time.
Sadly issue is totally random, it may not happen for whole day or it may happen 5 minutes from starting HWInfo64, more so after heavy load when computer is at idle.
With 250ms logging and without this PC shutting off issue, I definitely could pay something from this piece of software as it would be very useful.
What happens is that when HWInfo64 is running PC all of sudden shuts off, like pulling power cord out from the wall socket, not a crash, power just cuts off.
It only happens when HWInfo64 is running and usually only when hardware load is minimal or none.
It has been happening two years as long as I have used HWInfo64
Way I use HWInfo64 is that I have only sensors running for monitoring purposes, settings are default pretty much, but polling interval I used to have at 250ms however it was changed some time ago so that I can't log anymore with 250ms interval which was very useful for single core CPU thread logging during game session and performance analysis.
Anyway no matter if I have logging on or not, PC randomly shuts off, but never under heavy load.
Only components that have been same during two years are Samsung SM951 M2 NVMe drive, Seasonic Platinum 460W fanless PSU and Kingston Hyper-X 2666Mhz CL15 DDR4, 4x4GB
Have experienced issue with two different setups with same Windows 8.1 install:
I7-6700
Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3
Geforce GTX 1050Ti
I7-8086K
Gigabyte Gaming K3
Geforce GTX 1080
Last crash was with MSI Afterburner running and HWInfo64 providing VRM temp and CPU fan speed for MSI Afterburner on screen display, game Assetto Corsa was running and I was adjusting car settings on track
Having MSI Afterburner running or not seems not to affect situation at all.
Gigabyte's fan control requires to run Gigabytes own software, 32bit EasyTuneEngineService, can't remember if I tested with that forced to off during these years, but I have done quite bit of testing eliminating variables so might of tested that too.
So HWInfo64 does not see much use for now on my system because of this issue and in high hopes I write here if someone would of experienced similar and has found solution or reason for this behavior, which might save a little time.
Sadly issue is totally random, it may not happen for whole day or it may happen 5 minutes from starting HWInfo64, more so after heavy load when computer is at idle.
With 250ms logging and without this PC shutting off issue, I definitely could pay something from this piece of software as it would be very useful.