I'm hoping someone can offer some advice to help me narrow down my problem. I can't figure out if my issue is a hardware fault specifically, but updating the bios and drivers for my motherboard seems to impact the issue so I'm thinking that may be the culprit.
For several weeks I've had a problem of my PC restarting suddenly sometimes when gaming. The main points:
Components are:
I don't mind having to replace a part, but at this point I could be replacing part after part and not fixing the issue because I can't really be sure if it is the motherboard. I would be very grateful for any advice even if it helps me to rule out certain components.
Thanks in advance.
For several weeks I've had a problem of my PC restarting suddenly sometimes when gaming. The main points:
- PC components are several months old. No issues before, but I don't have spare parts to try so I would need to buy parts to try replacing (warranty isn't a thing where I live).
- It definitely isn't temperature related, and HW Monitor doesn't show any power/other issues I can see (with my limited knowledge).
- No BSOD, nothing useful in windows events, effects multiple games.
- When I updated the BIOS firmware the problem went away for 2 weeks, then got progressively worse again.
- I updated the drivers for the motherboard today to the proper ones from MSI's website and it got worse.
- While tinkering I noticed windows reports my ram speed wrong. When I changed it manually in the BIOS it made the problem much worse, so I set it back to auto and it went back to kind of bad. Tried reseating RAM, no change.
Components are:
- MSI MAG B550M Mortar WIFI
- Ryzen7 3700X
- iGame RTX3070
- Adata Spectrix D60 16gb
- Gigabyte 650W PSU
I don't mind having to replace a part, but at this point I could be replacing part after part and not fixing the issue because I can't really be sure if it is the motherboard. I would be very grateful for any advice even if it helps me to rule out certain components.
Thanks in advance.