- Jan 6, 2013
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So, I'm rather perplexed to what's going on with my PC.
This is gonna be a long read, so please bear with me in this riddle.
It's crashing at (seemingly) random intervals. No blue-screen, no nothing, just as if I flipped the switch on my power supply. It won't turn back on until I unplug the PSU and then plug it back in. My initial thought was "Okay, guess it's time to clean her out." I went into the case and cleaned out all the dust in the parts, but it still happens.
So I was like "Okay, it's overheating" and moved my PC into a more open area, and faced the back outwards to see if the open air will help it cool more than it was when it was kinda close to a wall, and so I could feel the fan to see how hot the air coming out was. It was still happening, and the fans weren't running wicked hot, nor were the parts according to HWMonitor. At this point, I tried updating my drivers and seeing if I could find points where it was recreate-able.
When I'm playing games, such as World of Warcraft, DotA 2, Dragon's Dogma, and PUBG, My computer will instantly crash at random points, or specific points. For example, World of Warcraft crashes my PC after I finish loading into the world after logging in, but only if I was playing DotA 2 before playing it. In DotA 2, it only crashes at the end of a game, when the ancient blows up and I press the button under the victory (or defeat) screen. In Dragon's Dogma, it only crashes my PC if I alt-tab and tab back in. PUBG crashes it randomly.
Okay, cool, I've found some spots where I can reliably recreate this. So I pop over to WhoCrashed, and see what I can learn. WhoCrashed is not finding any logs to analyze, or anything at all, actually. Well, drat. I'm not sure what to do after that, so I've tried a bunch of random stuff, like clearing up lots of disk space, uninstalling programs, doing multiple virus scans, and trying to research the issue online. So far, I've got no dice.
I figure Toms Hardware forums have always been of great insight, so it's the next logical place to turn. I'd appreciate some help in figuring this out.
Specs
CPU- AMD Phenom II X6 1040T
MB- ASRock 970M Pro3
PSU- Thermaltake TR2 TR-500 500W
GPU- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
SSD- Samsung SSD 750 EVO 500G
RAM- 8GB (Not sure of models, sorry)
OS- Windows 10 64bit
This is gonna be a long read, so please bear with me in this riddle.
It's crashing at (seemingly) random intervals. No blue-screen, no nothing, just as if I flipped the switch on my power supply. It won't turn back on until I unplug the PSU and then plug it back in. My initial thought was "Okay, guess it's time to clean her out." I went into the case and cleaned out all the dust in the parts, but it still happens.
So I was like "Okay, it's overheating" and moved my PC into a more open area, and faced the back outwards to see if the open air will help it cool more than it was when it was kinda close to a wall, and so I could feel the fan to see how hot the air coming out was. It was still happening, and the fans weren't running wicked hot, nor were the parts according to HWMonitor. At this point, I tried updating my drivers and seeing if I could find points where it was recreate-able.
When I'm playing games, such as World of Warcraft, DotA 2, Dragon's Dogma, and PUBG, My computer will instantly crash at random points, or specific points. For example, World of Warcraft crashes my PC after I finish loading into the world after logging in, but only if I was playing DotA 2 before playing it. In DotA 2, it only crashes at the end of a game, when the ancient blows up and I press the button under the victory (or defeat) screen. In Dragon's Dogma, it only crashes my PC if I alt-tab and tab back in. PUBG crashes it randomly.
Okay, cool, I've found some spots where I can reliably recreate this. So I pop over to WhoCrashed, and see what I can learn. WhoCrashed is not finding any logs to analyze, or anything at all, actually. Well, drat. I'm not sure what to do after that, so I've tried a bunch of random stuff, like clearing up lots of disk space, uninstalling programs, doing multiple virus scans, and trying to research the issue online. So far, I've got no dice.
I figure Toms Hardware forums have always been of great insight, so it's the next logical place to turn. I'd appreciate some help in figuring this out.
Specs
CPU- AMD Phenom II X6 1040T
MB- ASRock 970M Pro3
PSU- Thermaltake TR2 TR-500 500W
GPU- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
SSD- Samsung SSD 750 EVO 500G
RAM- 8GB (Not sure of models, sorry)
OS- Windows 10 64bit
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