- Dec 16, 2013
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Hi there,
Here are my current specs:
Here's the timeline of my PC absolutely hating me:
1. In April of 2020 I ordered new parts, consisting of the CPU & GPU listed above and the parts listed as "previous". I switched off a 1060 6GB and an i3 - 8350K with a slight OC. When I received my parts, the GPU came first, and so I put it in my existing computer. After this, my computer would start crashing and rebooting just how it does today. Seems like a pretty obvious problem, but here I am over a year down the line with the same card.
2. When I fully assembled the PC, I would continue to experience abrupt system reboots during gaming, with the majority of them being in 2560x1440 resolution. 1920x1080 seemed to be completely stable, and to this day I've experienced fewer crashes on it. Though I haven't really tested many games in 1080 recently as it seems my PC will choose some days to trigger crash after crash.
3. While I'm gaming, going through the loading screen of a game, or pretty much doing anything with a game open on my PC, there's a good chance that both my monitors will go black, a repetitive sound glitch will play, then my system reboots. The PC doesn't turn off during this as all lights stay on and it simply goes straight into rebooting. I often times get a AMD driver timeout as well, and when this happens it appears the same as my system rebooting. The only difference is while both monitors go black, I still have sound, and my PC will soon recover. All I have to do in this case is close the applications that were open. I will add, however, that after the driver timeout happens I'm more likely to experience a system reboot.
4. I have gotten new parts/tested new parts in every category besides the GPU. It and my SSD are the only two components that are not new, even though my parts previously were new. Gigabyte basically told me when I RMA'd the card that it passed their tests fine, which were really just benchmarks that I could run myself. I have contacted AMD support but they don't give me much besides "freshly install the GPU driver, install Windows updates, reset your PC, try a new part if you can." I've reset my PC about 4 times since it was built in April and so far not much stability has been gained. OVER TIME MY SYSTEM DID SEEM TO CRASH LESS AS I WAS ABLE TO PLAY GAMES THAT WOULD PREVIOSULY CRASH UPON LOADING OR JUST A FEW MINUTES IN. The exception to this is Minecraft, which, as of two days ago, has crashed my system about 11 times. Many of these crashes occurred back to back.
5. 99% of the time a WHEA logger event shows up at/just after the time of my system crash. They are all along the lines of this:
A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Cache Hierarchy Error
Processor APIC ID: 13 <- this number changes with every one, so it cycles through the same numbers often.
6. That mostly covers it. I'm waiting for a friend to loan me a GPU so I can test if I just went through a year of troubleshooting for no reason, but that'll be a few weeks. Otherwise, here's some other fixes I've tried: Turning PBO off, manually setting RAM voltage to Motherboard's listed spec, XMP on/off, different power plans including the 1usmus power plan, turned off FreeSync (it causes flickering on monitor and I hate it so much), changed cables, reset the Motherboard to default, updated BIOS to F33g ( a release from March. Soon after doing this my PC became completely unstable and I had to switch my RAM as it was shooting out errors w/ Windows Memory tool), and more. I've tried a lot, although I think I maybe tried too much and ignored obvious signs.
I'm always willing to give more information or expand on what I've said. I might be able to post a few memory dumps/logs, my PC very rarely actually records them as the PC shuts down too abruptly.
Thanks for reading,
Have a nice day.
Here are my current specs:
- CPU - Ryzen 5 3600 no-OC (have also tested a Ryzen 5 3600XT)
- Motherboard - Gigabyte Aorus Elite X570 (originally a MSI Tomahawk B450 board)
- RAM - Crucial Ballistix 16GB @ 3200MHz (previously was Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB @3200MHz). The ram is currently running at default speeds - 2667MHz with XMP off.
- GPU - Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700XT Gaming OC 8G rev 1.0 (RMA'd the card and all they said was it was fine. The tests listed were just benchmarks like FurMark).
- PSU - Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 750W 80+ Gold (was originally a Corsair CXM 750W 80+ Bronze)
- Storage - 860 EVO 1TB, Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD
- CPU cooler - be quiet! dark rock 3
- General cooling - 4x120mm fans connected through a hub controlling RGB, etc.
Here's the timeline of my PC absolutely hating me:
1. In April of 2020 I ordered new parts, consisting of the CPU & GPU listed above and the parts listed as "previous". I switched off a 1060 6GB and an i3 - 8350K with a slight OC. When I received my parts, the GPU came first, and so I put it in my existing computer. After this, my computer would start crashing and rebooting just how it does today. Seems like a pretty obvious problem, but here I am over a year down the line with the same card.
2. When I fully assembled the PC, I would continue to experience abrupt system reboots during gaming, with the majority of them being in 2560x1440 resolution. 1920x1080 seemed to be completely stable, and to this day I've experienced fewer crashes on it. Though I haven't really tested many games in 1080 recently as it seems my PC will choose some days to trigger crash after crash.
3. While I'm gaming, going through the loading screen of a game, or pretty much doing anything with a game open on my PC, there's a good chance that both my monitors will go black, a repetitive sound glitch will play, then my system reboots. The PC doesn't turn off during this as all lights stay on and it simply goes straight into rebooting. I often times get a AMD driver timeout as well, and when this happens it appears the same as my system rebooting. The only difference is while both monitors go black, I still have sound, and my PC will soon recover. All I have to do in this case is close the applications that were open. I will add, however, that after the driver timeout happens I'm more likely to experience a system reboot.
4. I have gotten new parts/tested new parts in every category besides the GPU. It and my SSD are the only two components that are not new, even though my parts previously were new. Gigabyte basically told me when I RMA'd the card that it passed their tests fine, which were really just benchmarks that I could run myself. I have contacted AMD support but they don't give me much besides "freshly install the GPU driver, install Windows updates, reset your PC, try a new part if you can." I've reset my PC about 4 times since it was built in April and so far not much stability has been gained. OVER TIME MY SYSTEM DID SEEM TO CRASH LESS AS I WAS ABLE TO PLAY GAMES THAT WOULD PREVIOSULY CRASH UPON LOADING OR JUST A FEW MINUTES IN. The exception to this is Minecraft, which, as of two days ago, has crashed my system about 11 times. Many of these crashes occurred back to back.
5. 99% of the time a WHEA logger event shows up at/just after the time of my system crash. They are all along the lines of this:
A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Cache Hierarchy Error
Processor APIC ID: 13 <- this number changes with every one, so it cycles through the same numbers often.
6. That mostly covers it. I'm waiting for a friend to loan me a GPU so I can test if I just went through a year of troubleshooting for no reason, but that'll be a few weeks. Otherwise, here's some other fixes I've tried: Turning PBO off, manually setting RAM voltage to Motherboard's listed spec, XMP on/off, different power plans including the 1usmus power plan, turned off FreeSync (it causes flickering on monitor and I hate it so much), changed cables, reset the Motherboard to default, updated BIOS to F33g ( a release from March. Soon after doing this my PC became completely unstable and I had to switch my RAM as it was shooting out errors w/ Windows Memory tool), and more. I've tried a lot, although I think I maybe tried too much and ignored obvious signs.
I'm always willing to give more information or expand on what I've said. I might be able to post a few memory dumps/logs, my PC very rarely actually records them as the PC shuts down too abruptly.
Thanks for reading,
Have a nice day.
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