PC games crash every 20-30 mins

pcproblemguy · Mar 22, 2016

My friend keeps having trouble with his games and PC crashing. He says his PC crashes to a "beige screen with lines on it". He recently also had a blue screen of death.

His PC is only 1 year old.

Specs:

Motherboard: ga-78lmt-s2p
Ram: 8gb 923mhz
GPU: AMD Raedon R9270x 2gb clock is 1080mhz
CPU: AMD FX8320 - idle is "37 celicus"
HDD: seagate 1tb

CBender · Mar 22, 2016

The possible culprits here are the psu or the gpu. What's the psu? Are everything new/out of the box? Also some temps during gaming and the titles he plays would be helpful.

pcproblemguy · Mar 22, 2016

@CBender, I'm unsure of the PSU. He just went to bed I can get this information in the morning. Stupid of me not to get it now. Titles most recently, ArmA III, American Truck Simulator. It's been crashing his games/pc for 4-6 months but it's getting seriously bad now. He's unsure of temps during gaming, I told him to possibly clean his rig as he's never done it before. He's doing that tomorrow but I'll get you more info in the morning.

huvik · Mar 22, 2016

Im guessing its your psu

pcproblemguy · Mar 22, 2016

I thought it would be his RAM due to blue screen, no?

turkey3_scratch · Mar 22, 2016

The beige colors are sort of pointing toward the GPU IMO. Color anomalies can often result from the GPU, but that's not to say the PSU did not cause it. The mere fact that he doesn't even bother telling you the PSU model shows me that he does not fully understand the importance of the PSU.

Tell him to stress test the GPU, and tell him also to downclock the GPU after.

pcproblemguy · Mar 22, 2016

He never told me because he never built it. It was built bought and as far as I'm aware he doesn't have that great of knowledge on PCs. He never told me because I never asked him, I completely forgot too.

However I shall tell him to stress test it, would you say 3DMark?

turkey3_scratch · Mar 22, 2016

Furmark is always good.

Ben_93 · Mar 23, 2016

Hey, I'm his friend thats having the problems

Ben_93 · Mar 23, 2016

My PSU is coolermaster 600w

pcproblemguy · Mar 23, 2016

Just had a look inside his PC there, It's not even that dusty and his temp on Furymark was max 65deg, which isn't even bad.

CBender · Mar 24, 2016

Again everything points to the gpu. Try a different gp or the integrated graphics (if available).

Ben_93 · Mar 24, 2016

I just had one of those beige screen with lines.. but this time it was a grey screen. I have a pic but i dont know how to upload it to here

pcproblemguy · Mar 27, 2016

Ben ran a memtest 5 minutes ago and got "Max Contiguous Errors : 1 - 29" and his "Bits In Error: 2 - 3"

He posted a video but it's in 240p and quite unreadable. So I couldn't tell you what his RAM was clocking at.

*EDIT*
Below is an attached picture he just uploaded to imgur of his test.
http://imgur.com/O4Wx5tU

Ben_93 · Mar 27, 2016

http://imgur.com/O4Wx5tU is the result of my test

Ben_93 · Mar 27, 2016

Memory clock sits at 150mhz sometimes jumping from 1400mhz to 150
EDIT: This is for my GPU according to CPUZ

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