PC Crash/Freeze when playing games!

Mickster676

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May 4, 2017
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Hi all,

I have a custom built PC with Windows 10 Home, my PC will randomly hang/ crash when I'm playing the games and I have to manually turn off the PC as everything just stops working.

I rebuilt the PC 2 times just to check that I dint make some stupid mistake on the build. I have also tried a new power supply, full memory diagnostics, windows reinstalls, chkdsk, sfc /scannow and disabling HD Audio from reinstalling on BIOS, regedit, device installation setting and none of them stopped it from reinstalling so I downloaded gpedit.msc and turned of automatic windows updates, this stops it from downloading but yet I still have the problem.

Any recommendations are welcome!
PC Specs;
PSU- EVGA Supernova 850 W Gold G2
Motherboard- Gigabyte Z170-Gaming
CPU- Intel Core i7-6700K 4GHz
RAM-- Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB 2x8GB 3000MHz DDR4
GPU- EVGA GeForce GTX 1070
HD- WD Red 2TB
SSD- Sandisk SSD Plus 480GB SATA III
 
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Did you reset the games to default settings? Sometimes game crashes are remembered like game settings and need to be reset. The crash can transfer over to newly reinstalled games.
Sometimes it's the gpu driver. Sometimes a gpu update just doesn't work and needs to be rolled back with a 'clean' uninstall/reinstall (with DDU) to remove driver scraps in the registry path. Last year, I was crashing on a the monthly update for my gpu card and had to use the last known good till a newer update came out.Steam or Origin updates sometimes blows chunks, check their forums or enlist a new thread to see if anyone has the same problem.
Also had a crashing problem where I narrowed the problem to the UPS unit. It wasn't supplying sufficient power to...

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Did you reset the games to default settings? Sometimes game crashes are remembered like game settings and need to be reset. The crash can transfer over to newly reinstalled games.
Sometimes it's the gpu driver. Sometimes a gpu update just doesn't work and needs to be rolled back with a 'clean' uninstall/reinstall (with DDU) to remove driver scraps in the registry path. Last year, I was crashing on a the monthly update for my gpu card and had to use the last known good till a newer update came out.Steam or Origin updates sometimes blows chunks, check their forums or enlist a new thread to see if anyone has the same problem.
Also had a crashing problem where I narrowed the problem to the UPS unit. It wasn't supplying sufficient power to the computer for some reason and didn't provide any indications it was failing. So I did a temporary test with a power strip to see if it crashed.
Lakken suggested temps when it hangs. What do you see before a crash? Do you see flickering, white snow patterns, hesitations, stutters in the frames.
Nat may 'Strict' instead of 'Moderate' or 'Open'. A firewall problem. Firewall needs get permission to allow program to run on internet.
Hope some of this helps, bud.
 
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