Crash & recover

Forum discussion tagged with Crash & recover.
  1. Locko

    Question PUBG Crashes my system

    I hope someone can help to find the cause of my PC crashing. The system is less than six months old I play games sometimes, all of them except PUBG run great on 4k Ultra/High. But PUBG can sometimes cause my PC to suddenly shut down. I can't catch any patterns, it can happen regardless of the...
  2. RedShadowXD

    Question Is my PSU dying?

    So short backstory, I built my PC about a year ago, February 2023 and it was dying a lot in an interesting manner. Freezes up for about half a minute and then black screen hard reset.. It was rare and I didn't think much of it. About 2 months later I upgraded to a more recent motherboard and CPU...
  3. B

    Question Crash caused by AV_nvlddmkm!unknown_function ?

    Hello, since about a week ago my laptop has been randomly crashing. It's very random: sometimes it crashes a couple times in a day, sometimes it goes multiple days without crashing, and I have no idea what triggers it either. I analyzed some of the crash dumps with Windows Debugger and they seem...
  4. A Gamer

    Question New Build PC Bluescreens Often

    Me and my brother did build a new computer for him. I was really happy he finally got a good computer for himself. Sadly the new build is having issues and bluescreens once every 3 days. I am trying to locate the issue, but didn't have any succes soo far. BUILD: MSI Pro B650-P WIFI AMD Ryzen 6...
  5. witeg

    Question Windows CRASH After 2mins

    Hi! I'm having a terribly confusing problem with my computer. This morning I took out 1 ram and wanted to put it in another computer. (It was working fine until then.) After restarting, I checked in cpu-z if everything was loaded and it was ok, until the computer simply crashed, with the...
  6. Kedagi

    Question PC kept on crashing until I turned it over sideways

    For the past 2 weeks, my PC has constantly rebooted every time it's under load. This includes games, stress tests, benchmarks and etc. I decided to turn the pc on its side and it surprisingly ran with no issues whatsoever. I tried pacing the PC upright and it crashed like it has always done. I...
  7. Jrme

    Question Lenovo 110

    Lenovo IdeaPad has been great however as it reaches the end of it's life it runs slow. Is there anything else we need to do to maintain these wonderful machines apart from updates, virus and malware security patches, general file clean ups and imaging, to save them from crashing?
  8. Zennificator

    [SOLVED] The Witcher 3 crashes the video driver ?

    Hi All Something odd happened to me last night. I was playing the Witcher 3, when suddendly my monitor went black. PC was still running. The game probably crashed as I was not earing any in-game sounds. However, after pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del followed by Enter (lock PC) and then hitting random key...
  9. Joneseyy

    Question PC Crashing on startup

    Hi All, I recently upgraded most of my pc parts, and today as I was gaming my PC displayed a blue screen, then green squares, and then eventually there was no signal. However, the PC was still running with all fans still going etc. So I turned it off by holding down the power button, turned it...
  10. A Gamer

    Question RTX 3070 TI Games CTD

    Specs: ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming Wifi Ryzen 5600x Palit RTX 3070 TI GameRock OC 4x 8GB Trident Z 3600Mhz CL18 Corsair RM650 SSD 1TB QVO Barracuda 2TB Issue: Games crashing to desktop The program (game).exe version 31979.0.0.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. Display driver...
  11. jack113256

    [SOLVED] Windows 10 very frequent BSOD

    Hi everyone, this is my first post. Im frequently getting a mixture of the following BSODs. unexpected store exception kernal data inpage error Critical Process Died They really occur randomly, sometimes right after startup or sometimes my pc would be fine for days then it might happen few...
  12. omega21xx

    [SOLVED] EVGA 1080TI SC II artifacts crash, I've RMA'd 5 times now...

    Underclocking the memory usually gives me some time before artifacts and crash, but its absurd to expect to have to do such just to not have your time ruined. Even with the memory underclocked, I still end up with crashes later. Just more game time at best. I'm on my 5th 1080ti via RMA. My PSU...
  13. D

    [SOLVED] PC reboots while gaming (cpu, psu, ram?) ?

    Hello everyone. I have seen similar posts about this however, the solutions on those posts have not worked for me... So, the main problem is: Random reboots while playing Warzone (it also occurs with Destiny 2, however with Warzone is more often). Just to be clear, it is not a BSOD. I have some...
  14. M

    [SOLVED] 2080 Ti crashing when playing games ?

    January of 2020 I purchased a Newegg Refurbished Gigabyte RTX 2080 ti. Up until recently my specs were as follows: RTX 2080 ti AMD Ryzen 2600x (watercooled with a 120mm rad AiO - not overclocked) 16gb (2x8gb) GSkill Trident Z RGB 3200 MHz CAS 16 ASUS ROG STRIX X470 Gaming-i 1TB M.2 running in...
  15. Z

    Question PC randomly crashing & rebooting when it's under load ?

    i5-9600k not overclocked mpg z390 pro carbon corsair vengeance 16 gb ram corsair cx750m psu rtx 2070 super So I have been getting a kernel 41 error, and my computer always ends up rebooting when it's under load, never when it isn't. I've gone ahead and tested the power supply with a multimeter...
  16. PAFF

    Question Windows Files Get Corrupted

    Hi everyone, i installed my gaming setup and for 2 days im trying to install windows on my system. Every single format had a different problem, I think main problem is the windows updates, before updates system works fine. After the installation or while the updates i get errors or corrupted...
  17. Thundurh

    Question Graphics Crash

    I have had an issue with crashing while playing intensive games with my gaming rig since around 2017. The games crash in one of two ways each time. Either a light green/brown-looking blank screen fills my monitor, the light on my graphics card turns off for a second, then my computer will...
  18. Lagiacrus

    [SOLVED] What to do with things on Hard Drive after Complete Windows Reinstall and diagnosis of original failure?

    I had to reinstall windows on my computer due to an unescapable error, and am looking for help on how to deal with my secondary hard drive that had the majority of my files on it. Some background: For who knows how long, I've occasionally gotten the bsod faulty hardware corrupt page. Not...
  19. facebook01378

    Laptop restart if plugged out instantly during gaming

    I have an Asus GL702ZC: RX 580 (19.12.1 2019 adrenaline drivers) ----- GPU undervolt -81mV Ryzen 5 1600 16 GB RAM (dual) Win10 x64 latest Ryzen Master shows 1.3-1.4V fresh from boot up, so I'm running on a quite a big CPU undervolt Running on 3.2GHz at 1V (PROFILE 1) or 3.4 GHz at 1.085V...
  20. S

    [SOLVED] PC is soft locking

    Over the past week my PC has begun to soft lock itself. It starts with my headset making a sound like it disconnects, then anything I'm doing becomes relatively unresponsive. I can still minimize/maximize programs and drag program windows around. I cannot start any programs, nothing I click...
  21. A

    [SOLVED] Data Loss within Microsoft Word? (Or on the hard drive?)

    I have had a few crashes on my Windows 10 machine (HP Zbook 15G2). At first, I thought they might be related to heat as it's an older machine and was running pretty hot at the time, however..., during reboot after one of the crashes, there was a message during the Windows startup screen that one...
  22. Beetonl

    [SOLVED] Game crashing and in some cases system reboot

    Hi all, Hoping someone can help a little here; I recently re-built my computer from scratch (recycling the case, PSU and drives), as my older PC was running near 6 years old. I seem to be having system and game crashes sporadically and I cant seem to pinpoint he source of the issue, everything...
  23. K

    [SOLVED] Pull old Chrome and Firefox passwords off old drive

    I had a Windows 7 computer that had a motherboard failure. Both drives are fine. I have a two dock external bay so I can access them easily. I bought as new computer with Windows 10 installed. How do I find and access all of my old Chrome and Firefox passwords?
  24. C

    [SOLVED] Windows 10. Frequent hangs/crashes. No BSOD or .dmp files associated. Please help

    Hi there, hoping for some help on this issue. I’m pulling my hair out! My PC keeps freezing (hanging?) then crashing to blank screen (no BSOD or other error messages shown), and then restarting. I have repeatedly checked BlueScreenViewer and there are no .dmp files - I opened up the folder...
  25. S

    Question PC Crashes after getting new RAM

    I have an Asrock X370 motherboard with 16GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 RAM on Windows 10, and I wanted to get some more RAM so i got 16GB more of the exact same model and speed. When I installed the RAM, my computer booted up but only for a minute or two before crashing. I tried resetting...
  26. J

    [SOLVED] A peculiar windows 10 Crash

    Sometimes, almost randomly but usually when the pc is under some decent amount of stress (Working in CAD or Gaming) the pc would just freeze entirely, forcing a hard shut down. After a reboot I am often met with this blue screen: RESTORE Your pc/Device needs to be repaired. The operating...
  27. -Arke-

    Question GPU crashing on heavy load

    Hello there!! I've recently experiencede some issues with my GPU. I've run some test in order to make sure the issue is related with my GPU and everything else seems to be fine (HDDs, Ram, CPU etc). Whenever I'm under heavy load, playing some games, the image freezes (and sometimes the mouse...
  28. M

    [SOLVED] Multiple bsod errors on new pc

    I just finished this build last week. My specs are an AMD Ryzen 7 2700x, G.Skill Ripjaw DDR4 RAM 16 GB, seagate 2TB HDD, Asrock b450 mobo, GeForce 1060 3b and an EVGA 750w bronze PSU. I've gotten multiple different errors including memory management, kernal security and 2 others. I've ran...
  29. parama3500

    Question PC works fine, powers off (no bsod) and turns on after a second.

    It's not due to overheating, I checked, nor due to dust, I cleaned and reassembled. I would just work on my PC, and suddenly it turns off as if the electricity went down, and then maybe 2 seconds later it turns back on, and task managers Up Time is reset. It doesn't matter what I'm doing, it...
  30. F

    Question My pc keeps restarting

    Hello Tom's hardware community. My specs are Ryzen 2600x Corsair vengeance 3000 x8 gb ram Motherboard TUF b450m plus gaming Gtx 960 strix 4gb Well I'm gonna try to give all the details I've been using this computer for a year no problems whatsoever. Today I turned it on and appeared to load...
  31. J

    Question What could be wrong with my PC?

    Have just finished a fresh build and have been running a few days, however occassionally i get a loss of mouse/keyboard control and a freeze of image. this also sometimes is paired with a loss of video signal to my monitor. usually it fixed itself if i restarted the computer, however tonight...
  32. J

    Question ssd power cycle after crash

    Solid-state drive crashed, was able to power cycle through the bios Can see hard drive in bios after power cycle, if I do a boot, Go blue screen boot device unrecognized error Was curious if windows makes hard drive unaccessible if corrupted data, because I can't access it from Disc management...
  33. parama3500

    [SOLVED] PC randomly turns off, then back on itself immediately. Help!

    It's not when I'm doing something intensive, also happens when it's idle; so possibly not a heating issue. (didn't check the temps tho but sure they are under control) I'm just doing something on my PC and screen goes black, fans turn off, just as if the electricity went down, then 1 second...
  34. srkcalb

    [SOLVED] Unable to find culprit of RANDOM black screen

    Hello. It is the first time I post here and I've read many posts before in this forum about similar issues regarding black screens. I got a 1080 ti not long ago and it's been an amazing card so far but recently I've been getting RANDOM black screens. I used to think it was my HDD due to it...
  35. PiztoLice

    [SOLVED] Installed an RX 570 with a generic PSU. Weird things started to happen

    Long story short I installed an RX 570 along with a generic, unknown brand "700" watts power supply So i just got an RX 570 installed it on my unit using a generic power supply but then I noticed something different, it requires an 8 pin but my cheap power supply doesn't have an 8 pin for a...
  36. Denizfff

    [SOLVED] Pc turns on, Black screen and no Lights on keyboard and mouse

    Hey fellas, i hope someone can help me. I recently got an error when I was playing video games. There was an error with my memory something. I searched around the net to find a solution and got no luck. I tried to update every driver, bios and even windows but nothing helped. The pc kept...
  37. A

    [SOLVED] Latest windows update messed up my pc.

    My PC decided to crash while playing Destiny 2, so i restarted it. It worked fine after that but i decided to run the latest windows update since i hadn't gotten around to it and so this problem might not happen again. I pressed update and restart and the messages displayed kept repeating...
  38. K

    [SOLVED] Black screen after playing for a while.

    I can play for about 10 min and then my screen goes black while the audio continues it then throws an error and windows comes back up. It sometimes throws an error about "The thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access." or "Graphics...
  39. marthanaan

    [SOLVED] [HELP] My AMD RX 570 keeps crashing and i don't know what to do..

    3 weeks ago i build my second gaming pc and here's the specs AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz (Stock clock, no overclocking) ASRock X370M Pro 4 (X370 Chipset and quad channel DDR4 RAM) Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2400 MHz (Stock clock, no overclocking) 2 sticks MSI ARMOR Radeon RX 570 4GB Aero Cool Lux 550w...
  40. paul5000

    [SOLVED] So many BSOD crashes! :(

    I recently rebuilt my system: upgraded motherboard, processor, video card and RAM. Since the upgrade I've been getting lots of Blue Screen of Death crashes. Mostly on boot - often the system will attempt to boot once or twice and get a BSOD, and then start working ok on the 2nd or 3rd try...