PC crashing I think due to OCing

Dklizznein · Dec 28, 2016

My pc seems to be crashing during the load in from loading bars on video games. Some games are worse than others. Usually one where you load into a game like Overwatch, a dungeon in WoW, or a match in H1Z1 King of the Kill. We have replaced the GPU, the ram so far. Still no luck. We ran a stress test on the Mobo and it's saying it's overclocked. It was a brand new board and neither of us over clocked it out selves. Last time my pc rebooted from a crash it came up with errors talking about overclocking.

These are the parts I have in my PC and I'm running windows 10

2TB Desktop HDD SATA III w/ 64MB Cache

G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB PC4-25600 Dual Channel DDR4 RAM Kit (2x 8GB), Black

Intel Core™ i5-6600K Processor, 3.50GHz w/ 6MB Cache

Corsair Hydro Series H100i GTX Extreme Performance Water / Liquid CPU Cooler. 240mm

Phanteks Enthoo Pro Series PH-ES614P_BK Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case

NZXT 5.25-Inch Hue RGB LED Color Changing Controller (AA-HUE30-01)

GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (rev. 1.0) LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel ...

EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G1 120-G1-0650-XR 80+ GOLD 650W Fully Modular Includes FREE Power On Self Tester Power ...

Crucial BX200 240GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT240BX200SSD1

MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G

Can anyone give me some advice on how to bring my bios back to default or not over clocked, I'm really new to all this PC stuff and I have no idea what I'm doing. I have my brother in law helping me though being in a different city can caugh some communication problems.

mcnumpty23 · Dec 28, 2016

check with cpuz whether its actually overclocked or not

and in your bios it should have a load optimised defaults or similar sounding option

Matt_150 · Dec 28, 2016

There should be an option in your BIOS to set it to defaults.

engineer5261 · Dec 28, 2016

I see you are using an overclocking motherboard and an overclockable K CPU.

It could be possible that your motherboard was oc'ing your CPU. You should be able to change this from the bios. On startup try pressing Del/F2/F9 - one of these keys should get you into the bios menu, and you can disable any overclocks from there.

Dklizznein · Dec 28, 2016

I ran OCCT last night and it said my CPU was overclocking. I'll post the picture here.
https://imgur.com/gallery/jHGtR

mcnumpty23 · Dec 28, 2016

thats intel turbo boost thats normal and meant to happen

its not the same as you overclocking it

engineer5261 · Dec 28, 2016

You need to enter your computer's BIOS menu at startup. You can normally not change OC settings from within windows (unless your motherboard manufacturer has specifically designed and written software to support this function).

Have you looked at the BIOS settings at all so far?

Dklizznein · Dec 28, 2016

Not overly. I'm not very computer savvy so I've just been doing what my brother in law has been telling me to do. I updated my bios last night and that's about it. I browser through the Bios pages though just to see what it was all about, and I was going to do an "optimized default" after I am done work today to see if that changes anything.
About a month ago I did a clean install on my pc and prior to the clean install it had a program on it called Easy Tune which was for over clocking I do believe and I don't think I ever touched anything in there, but I have no idea. I installed it last night again to see if it did anything, but for some reason it wouldn't open and kept "not responding" though after I installed it, and my PC crashed again, on reboot it came up with these errors.
https://imgur.com/gallery/LYi2e

mcnumpty23 · Dec 28, 2016

engineer5261 :

it isnt over clocked 3900mhz or 3.9ghz is the turbo boost speed

engineer5261 · Dec 28, 2016

mcnumpty23 :

Ah, I see. You are correct. Perhaps some motherboard software is messing with it?

mcnumpty23 · Dec 28, 2016

engineer5261 :

yes gigabyte easy tune amongst other things can be used to overclock--though you have to actually tell it to just installing it wont do it

though if it had done the speed would have showed as higher than 3900mhz any way

engineer5261 · Dec 28, 2016

mcnumpty23 :

engineer5261 :

yes gigabyte easy tune amongst other things can be used to overclock--though you have to actually tell it to just installing it wont do it

though if it had done the speed would have showed as higher than 3900mhz any way

Agreed. Perhaps it would be easier for OP to do a backup and try a clean install if we suspect the problem may be software induced?

Dklizznein · Dec 28, 2016

I have clean installed, I have very little on my pc, we tried games with a clean install with only updated drivers, and the game installed and it still happened. As I go on I have added more. Such as easy tune I only downloaded it last night to see if it was something I could use to see about resetting or what not

Dklizznein · Dec 28, 2016

Only other thing I can think of is possibly a bad PSU, the one tech guy in town said he would check it, but he didn't want to since the PSU I have had black shrouding over the wires he didn't want to cut into it, and he didn't think of asking if he could, so I took my pc back cause I felt he was useless.

mcnumpty23 · Dec 28, 2016

are those ram 3200mhz?

might be worth a try to lower them a little just to see if it helps

Dklizznein · Dec 28, 2016

I do believe they are, again, I'm sorry I'm still learning what am I looking to lower them to? And where abouts in the bios am I looking for them?

mcnumpty23 · Dec 28, 2016

sorry i have trouble reading large blocks of text but cant seem to see what graphics card you are using?

if its posted there at the beginning then i apologise but cant see it

Dklizznein · Dec 28, 2016

Sorry I guess it isn't listed and sorry for the block of text it is hard to read.

MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4G

mcnumpty23 · Dec 28, 2016

very good card so certainly up to the job

so guess its back to try your memory at a lower speed

every bios is different so cant tell you where it is in yours

will have to look for anything that mentions

ram,or xmp (preset memory configuration--stands for extreme memory profile)

and 3200mhz or xmp1, xmp2 etc

could also run a graphics benchmark just to see if that also has issues--something like unigine heaven or unigine valley will do

Dklizznein · Dec 28, 2016

https://imgur.com/gallery/duHho
This is what popped up, when I go to memory profile it bumps it to just under 3200mhz like 3197 or something

mcnumpty23 · Dec 28, 2016

can you test on the 2133mhz speed

i know its well below the rated 3200mhz its just to see if the problem still happens or not

Dklizznein · Dec 28, 2016

Yea for sure, I was dumb, and I did the default settings before looking at everything so I couldn't tell what changed when I switched to default. This was during my lunch break from work, so when I get home I'll be playing some H1Z1 which my pc HATES

mcnumpty23 · Dec 28, 2016

ok will see if lowering memory speed cures it

if it does should still be able to put the memory speed up higher than 2133mhz just not all the way to 3200mhz

if it doesnt cure it at least ruled out the memory

Dklizznein · Dec 28, 2016

Still happened.

mcnumpty23 · Dec 28, 2016

well at least can rule out memory i guess

did you try a graphics benchmark?

PC crashing I think due to OCing

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