AMD Athlon x4 860k crashes while gaming

[david4pdx]

When I play games online or in general, they crash. I just updated from an outdated amd a6 apu to the cpu listed above. It is compatible with my motherboard. I checked on the website. Here is my loadout:

Gigabyte A88XM-D3H
Thoshiba DT01ACA300 HDD
WDC WD10 EZEX-22BN5A0 HDD (Runs Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 x64 bit)
Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 TI
2x 8Ghz Gskill Ripjaw memory

My OS was running smoothly before I installed the CPU and afterward I updated the BIOS via the website, but it doesn't matter what game I play. When I checked to see why the games were crashing, this is the error I saw in the logs:

Faulting application name: ScheduledTask.exe, version: 1.2.1.0, time stamp: 0x53a141f0
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18409, time stamp: 0x53159a86
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x0000c42d
Faulting process id: 0x1328
Faulting application start time: 0x01cfffe11611b3e0
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\pastaleads\ScheduledTask.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 53c8128e-6bd4-11e4-9ed3-74d4359577c0

Ultimately, every solution I found online to fix this problem hasn't fixed the issue. It is rather frustrating. Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[clutchc]

Try running CCleaner and do the Clean and Registry section both. You may have software conflicts and Registry errors causing problems.
https://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER
I've been using it for years and never have any issues.

 

[Nickae3]

Did you ever solve your problem? I am having the same issues. The a4-6300 works fine then I use the 860k and I have all sorts of problems. Maybe it's a bios compatibility bug that needs to be worked out by the motherboard manufacturers.

 

[clutchc]

I've noticed a run of folks with 860Ks having issues lately on the forum. Odd. Try disabling as much as possible running at start up with windows. Either disable them in the tray or go to System Configuration/Startup and uncheck boxes. There may be a software conflict. I noticed the OP's error messgae had "Faulting application name: ScheduledTask.exe".
Sounds like something user-scheduled to run automatically is at fault. I was hoping CCleaner would correct that for him. But it may have been a poorly written piece of software.

 

[slyu9213]

@Nickae3 - I have the same motherboard and processor as the OP and have no problems with crashing while gaming and when I do it's my dying video card. With the most recent BIOS which is F6 I believe everything works fine.

@david4pdx - As I said to the other user I have the same motherboard and processor as you and don't have an issue with the CPU causing crashes unless I have an unstable overclock on memory, northbridge, or cpu.


Have you changed any settings in your BIOS? If you have tell us, or if possible take pictures of your BIOS menu settings especially the frequency/voltage sections.

Next what RAM model/speed are they running at? I'm running 8GB of Ripjaws Z 2400MHz RAM that I installed a few days ago. It doesn't crash unless I overclock the northbridge.

After getting a stable overclock I don't really crash when gaming except when I have my GPU overclocked (shows some instability with GPU). There was no crashing when everything was at stock settings. This doesn't mean I don't get occasional crashes but I got those crashes when I was using my A4-4000 also so it's not the CPU.

Not sure what the problem is though

 

[iAreNubcake]

Have you updated the BIOS for your motherboard to the latest version? And I mean REALLY updated, as in you updated and then checked that the motherboard is now reporting that it is using the latest version.

I had a pretty similar problem. Full on random crashes. Was annoying to figure out... the problem was that I thought I was running latest version of all drivers and BIOS and w/e. However, there was an issue with the BIOS that I had installed that didn't immediately become apparent. The BIOS was "updating", but it wasn't actually being updated.

This was on an MSI A88X-E45 motherboard, so I can't say for sure what you'd have to do on your motherboard, but I do recommend double checking that it is ACTUALLY updating the BIOS to the latest version.

 

[Jgilbert]

I had problems with my x4 860k always crashing, driver errors being the main problem. Mouse would not work on start up.
I tried all driver uninstall cleaner ect and bios updated but still the same. The problem was solved after a month of trying to fix.
I got rid of the GeForce gtx750 ti that I was using and replaced it with amd r7 260x.
Now problem free for weeks, plays games without any crashes.
The gtx performance was as good but had to replace it with all the crashes on my 860k build.
So make sure the first thing you do is try a different video card.
750 ti worked fine on my old PC and it really is a great budget card
But my 860k build didn't seem compatible with it.

 

[bmacsys]

Why are people replying to a thread that has been dead for two months? Obviously the original poster resolved the issue two months ago. Start a new thread. Don't necro a dead one.