Basically, after a few minutes of playing pretty much any game, my PC blue screens with WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR. I haven't been able to detect any patterns between CPU, GPU, RAM, Disk, or Network usage and my crashes, but I haven't really studied those stats. It always happens within 25 minutes. Also, my temps seem fine. I'm not overclocking either.
Here are my PC Specs:
GTX 1070
Ryzen 5600x
EVGA 860 Watt PSU
G skill Triden Z 3200
WD Black SN750 NVME
Crucial MX500
6TB Seagate 7200 RPM drive
Gigabyte B550 Auros Pro
Thermaltake Core P3 Open air case
EK P360 Watercooling Kit
Custom Micro Center Red and Black sleeved cables
Watercooling issue:
I've only had one leak with my watercooling when I was transporting the PC. The PC was off, it barely spilled anything, and I cleaned everything and let it sit for more than a day after the leak and I had no problems. The BSOD problems started maybe a month or two after the leak occurred. The leak was from my CPU block, a small amount got on my drive, the top PCI-E slot on the mobo, and the ribbon cable going to the GPU. The ribbon cable prevented any water from getting on the PSU, GPU, or on any of the lower PCI-E slots.
Troubleshooting steps:
I'm hoping debugging this is an interesting challenge for some of the veterans here (or maybe it's super easy and I totally missed something) because I really don't know what else to do at this point. One thing, I pretty much only push my PC when I'm gaming, so maybe some other targeted stress tests could reveal the problem, or at least eliminate some components from the equation. Maybe I should write the Minidump files to another drive?
Here are my PC Specs:
GTX 1070
Ryzen 5600x
EVGA 860 Watt PSU
G skill Triden Z 3200
WD Black SN750 NVME
Crucial MX500
6TB Seagate 7200 RPM drive
Gigabyte B550 Auros Pro
Thermaltake Core P3 Open air case
EK P360 Watercooling Kit
Custom Micro Center Red and Black sleeved cables
Watercooling issue:
I've only had one leak with my watercooling when I was transporting the PC. The PC was off, it barely spilled anything, and I cleaned everything and let it sit for more than a day after the leak and I had no problems. The BSOD problems started maybe a month or two after the leak occurred. The leak was from my CPU block, a small amount got on my drive, the top PCI-E slot on the mobo, and the ribbon cable going to the GPU. The ribbon cable prevented any water from getting on the PSU, GPU, or on any of the lower PCI-E slots.
Troubleshooting steps:
- I got my drive RMA'd by Western Digital. I'm pretty sure I had real drive issues combined with whatever this issue is, and WD Rma'd my drive, so now I've got a brand new drive
- Swapped my GPU, I've got a spare GTX 970
- Swapped my PSU, I'm gearing up for a GPU upgrade and I needed the extra PSU for a server I've got at home
- Wiped Windows
- Installed all drivers
- Updated my mobo BIOS
- Ran memtest 86, 4 passes no errors
- Tried plugging my GPU directly into the mobo, without the riser cable,
- Tried using the other PCI port
- Tried Windows 11
- I've been using Linux for the past few months (my linux install is on a seperate MX500), and I was able to game perfectly fine. I was using Proton, which presents its own challenges, so I wasn't able to game very often, but it did work.
- There are no Minidump files
I'm hoping debugging this is an interesting challenge for some of the veterans here (or maybe it's super easy and I totally missed something) because I really don't know what else to do at this point. One thing, I pretty much only push my PC when I'm gaming, so maybe some other targeted stress tests could reveal the problem, or at least eliminate some components from the equation. Maybe I should write the Minidump files to another drive?
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