Hi All
I have a system that is driving me up the wall and I am out of ideas. Specs are
Mobo - Asus P8Z68-v pro/gen3
CPU - I7-2600k
PSU - EVGA 650w G2 (new)
GFX - Geforce MSI Gaming4G 970GTX
RAM - Corsair Vengance DDR3 2x4Gb 1600Mhz
SSD - Crucial MX100 - 256Gb
OS - Win 10 Pro
Primary Monitor - Asus ROG - PG278Q (Via Displayport)
Secondary - Acer X233H (via DVI-D)
Please note sometimes the system is rock stable with 10 hour gaming sessions and no issues, this has often resulted in a misguided relief that the last attempted fix has resolved the problem. I cant replace the whole damn system and while I have swapped out parts for other known working pieces and not had issues this could be the result of the issues being so randomly occurring.
The problems experienced are the following.
- Crashes when gaming. This can be either while gaming or sometimes loading chrome or a new tab. This can occur if the game is windowed or fullscreen. This happens for multiple titles (from factorio to WH:Total War)
- Screens freeze but chat programs eg discord/skype remain active for 10-15s then die. A single press of the power button sometimes instantly kills the PC, but more often than not it requires a 5s hold.
- Resets (can repeat up to 3 times (ish) including hard resets with 10s poweroff) sometimes result in screens still not displaying, sometimes it freezes on windows loading however in both instances it does load as discord loads back in and I can speak to and hear friends.
Troubleshooting steps taken.
- Temp monitors show both the CPU and GPU remain under all the thresholds and no throttling takes place. Had these running during more than one instance of freezing.
- GFX card re-seated
- GFX card moved to a different PCI-E slot.
- PSU replaced with EVGA G2
- Drivers updated
- Drivers downdated
- Drivers stripped entirely and reinstalled. (Via Guru3d Display Driver Uninstaller
- Win 10 re-installed.
- Memory Checks out OK through all memtests.
- Games installed to seperate SSD. Steam games verified cache.
- Aida stresstest passed. No temp issues
- Furmark stresstest passed. No temp issues
I am honestly open to ALL sane suggestions on what could cause this.
I have a system that is driving me up the wall and I am out of ideas. Specs are
Mobo - Asus P8Z68-v pro/gen3
CPU - I7-2600k
PSU - EVGA 650w G2 (new)
GFX - Geforce MSI Gaming4G 970GTX
RAM - Corsair Vengance DDR3 2x4Gb 1600Mhz
SSD - Crucial MX100 - 256Gb
OS - Win 10 Pro
Primary Monitor - Asus ROG - PG278Q (Via Displayport)
Secondary - Acer X233H (via DVI-D)
Please note sometimes the system is rock stable with 10 hour gaming sessions and no issues, this has often resulted in a misguided relief that the last attempted fix has resolved the problem. I cant replace the whole damn system and while I have swapped out parts for other known working pieces and not had issues this could be the result of the issues being so randomly occurring.
The problems experienced are the following.
- Crashes when gaming. This can be either while gaming or sometimes loading chrome or a new tab. This can occur if the game is windowed or fullscreen. This happens for multiple titles (from factorio to WH:Total War)
- Screens freeze but chat programs eg discord/skype remain active for 10-15s then die. A single press of the power button sometimes instantly kills the PC, but more often than not it requires a 5s hold.
- Resets (can repeat up to 3 times (ish) including hard resets with 10s poweroff) sometimes result in screens still not displaying, sometimes it freezes on windows loading however in both instances it does load as discord loads back in and I can speak to and hear friends.
Troubleshooting steps taken.
- Temp monitors show both the CPU and GPU remain under all the thresholds and no throttling takes place. Had these running during more than one instance of freezing.
- GFX card re-seated
- GFX card moved to a different PCI-E slot.
- PSU replaced with EVGA G2
- Drivers updated
- Drivers downdated
- Drivers stripped entirely and reinstalled. (Via Guru3d Display Driver Uninstaller
- Win 10 re-installed.
- Memory Checks out OK through all memtests.
- Games installed to seperate SSD. Steam games verified cache.
- Aida stresstest passed. No temp issues
- Furmark stresstest passed. No temp issues
I am honestly open to ALL sane suggestions on what could cause this.
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