I built this PC a little over 2 years ago and around the end of January (2018) I started to experience these restart crashes while playing games. I have yet to experience one of these restarts while just browsing/idle and every single time it has been while playing a game, so it seems to be directly related to stress/power consumption.
My specs:
CPU: i7 6700k skylake, stock clock, no OCs at all
GPU: GTX 980ti
SSD: Samsung EVO 850 pro 1tb (OS is on this), then I have another EVO 250G for some more storage.
Motherboard: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII HERO
PSU: Corsair Hxi 1000i (Platinum)
Memory: 2 Corsair Vengeance 8g
Yes, I have restart on crashes disabled, and yes I have minidumps set up for crashes, and yet I am not getting any BSOD messages or dump files to look at.
Things I have tried:
Updated BIOS
Replaced PSU with brand new, exact same model
Replaced surge protector power strip
Updated drivers (GPU drivers also up to date)
Reset BIOS settings to default
Cleaned dust out (what little there was)
Ran Memtest86 for 8 passes with 0 errors
reseated memory
Ran a realbench test multiple times without crashing, all components working perfectly fine according to scores
Temps while under stress tests did not exceed 61c for cpu and did not exceed 72c for GPU and are not getting anywhere close to those temps while gaming and where I am experiencing these restarts, so I doubt very much it is temperature related.
After researching this for months, and seeing most problems being solved by replacing the PSU, I was pretty disappointed after experiencing another restart after replacing mine with a brand new one.
Are there any other known issues that could cause this? I'm on the verge of just replacing the mobo at this point, but even that is difficult because there is no visible damage, no blown caps, nor have there been any performance drops in any areas and the temps are about the same as when I first built the rig.
The problem can be very hard to replicate also because I have gone a couple weeks at a time without a single restart, and sometimes will have multiple restarts a night. But as I said 100% of the times this has happened, I'v had a game of some sort running.
Could I possibly not be drawing enough power from the wall? I have noticed other devices (router and other PC) have these 'restarts' at times also, but that could be typical behavior of a router and the other pc is like 7 years old, so that could be coincidence. If this is even a possibility, how would I even go about checking something like that?
My specs:
CPU: i7 6700k skylake, stock clock, no OCs at all
GPU: GTX 980ti
SSD: Samsung EVO 850 pro 1tb (OS is on this), then I have another EVO 250G for some more storage.
Motherboard: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII HERO
PSU: Corsair Hxi 1000i (Platinum)
Memory: 2 Corsair Vengeance 8g
Yes, I have restart on crashes disabled, and yes I have minidumps set up for crashes, and yet I am not getting any BSOD messages or dump files to look at.
Things I have tried:
Updated BIOS
Replaced PSU with brand new, exact same model
Replaced surge protector power strip
Updated drivers (GPU drivers also up to date)
Reset BIOS settings to default
Cleaned dust out (what little there was)
Ran Memtest86 for 8 passes with 0 errors
reseated memory
Ran a realbench test multiple times without crashing, all components working perfectly fine according to scores
Temps while under stress tests did not exceed 61c for cpu and did not exceed 72c for GPU and are not getting anywhere close to those temps while gaming and where I am experiencing these restarts, so I doubt very much it is temperature related.
After researching this for months, and seeing most problems being solved by replacing the PSU, I was pretty disappointed after experiencing another restart after replacing mine with a brand new one.
Are there any other known issues that could cause this? I'm on the verge of just replacing the mobo at this point, but even that is difficult because there is no visible damage, no blown caps, nor have there been any performance drops in any areas and the temps are about the same as when I first built the rig.
The problem can be very hard to replicate also because I have gone a couple weeks at a time without a single restart, and sometimes will have multiple restarts a night. But as I said 100% of the times this has happened, I'v had a game of some sort running.
Could I possibly not be drawing enough power from the wall? I have noticed other devices (router and other PC) have these 'restarts' at times also, but that could be typical behavior of a router and the other pc is like 7 years old, so that could be coincidence. If this is even a possibility, how would I even go about checking something like that?
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