Recent content by Tomgoughh

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    Question Is it worth upgrading my CPU?

    Wondering if anyone can help. I'm looking at possibly upgrading CPU. I work as a 3D render artist for a game studio and also do a lot of personal renders. I mainly work in Blender, 3DS Max, Unreal Engine and Substance Painter but also do play quite a few games. I was basically looking to upgrade...
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    Question Critical Process Died Blue Screen

    Hello wondering if anyone can help. Been having some issues with my PC lately getting the 'Critical Process Died' Blue screen. After doing some research I thought it was a software issue so done a full reinstall of Windows 11 but still had the error. I took my PC apart gave it a good clean but...
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    Question A device which does not exist was specified - Samsung 980 Pro M.2 SSD

    Having some issues with a drive. I think it keeps unmounting itself which in turn means I can't access any files on it. It shows up in disk management sometimes and sometimes doesn't. I can see some the folders on explorer but if I select any of them I get the message 'A device which does not...
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    Question Random PC BSOD with no minidump files.

    2x16gb in slots 2 and 4
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    Question Random PC BSOD with no minidump files.

    yeah got latest bios have checked all cables and re seated multiple times now too
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    Question Random PC BSOD with no minidump files.

    Just wondering if anyone can help. Recently I have been having an issue where my PC will just crash and turn itself off. I see a split second of blue screen and then it completely shuts down. It doesn't seem to be creating any minidump files either. Sometimes this has happened hours into playing...
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    Question Constant PC blue screens when playing games and using software - Critical Process Died and Unexpected Store Exception

    ive just had my new motherboard turn up. Ive got an 850w power supply i might chuck in too and see how it goes.
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    Question Constant PC blue screens when playing games and using software - Critical Process Died and Unexpected Store Exception

    yeah think ill try CMOS and then go from there! Motherboards only a year old so should be able to get a replacement easily enough.
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    Question Constant PC blue screens when playing games and using software - Critical Process Died and Unexpected Store Exception

    Disk 0 and 4 are the m.2 drives. Well the only reason i think its not the drive at fault is that ive already RMA the 980 pro for having the same issue so not sure it is that! The drive not accesible issue has been happening a lot less recently its more the BSODs which are the big issue! Going...
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    Question Constant PC blue screens when playing games and using software - Critical Process Died and Unexpected Store Exception

    here you go - View: https://imgur.com/a/JViQTDr 970 just says diagnostic scan isnt available for that drive. 980 pro has the issue but ive had it on 2 different drives now so thinking it could be a motherboard issue rather than a drive issue? BIOS was updated recently but ill double check...
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    Question Constant PC blue screens when playing games and using software - Critical Process Died and Unexpected Store Exception

    ah okay so could be the boot drive causing issues? Ive replaced the 980 pro already as thought it couldve been faulty but its doing the same thing so thinking its possibly the 970 evo boot driving causing the issue? Might try swap the 980 pro into the top slot on the mobo and install windows on...
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    Question Constant PC blue screens when playing games and using software - Critical Process Died and Unexpected Store Exception

    Hello just wondering if anyone can help at all. I've been getting constant blue screen crashes recently while playing games and using some software. Annoyingly these blue screens aren't giving me and mini dump files but there seems to be 2 errors which are: Unexpected Store Exception and...
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    Question Drive not accessible - "A device which does not exist was specified" error on new M.2 drive ?

    Now getting it without being in any game, could just be trying to save a document to the drive and I then get the error. Also had a few blue screen crashes over the last couple of days with a 'CRITICAL PROCESS FAILED' error