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Question Devices shut down when playing heavy games

Dec 26, 2024
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Hi, the problem is that when playing games that consume more than nothing, the backlight of the fans in the case starts playing like a Christmas tree (merry christmas btw), in addition to that the keyboard (the most important thing) can shut down, keys sticking, very long time ago the mouse shut down altogether.

At first I thought it was because I had a lot of other devices plugged into my network, I plugged them in directly - nothing changed, since then I have replaced the case, RAM, motherboard, processor, video card, even bought a new surge protector. The power supply was bought about a year ago, and it should be able to handle all the devices, and from what I remember, I can't say 100%, but even with the old power supply, there were problems like this.

Also the problem can't be the keyboard, due to the fact that even in a new case the diodes on the fans are behaving as they want.

I'm starting to think about having to completely rewire the apartment or should I try replacing the power supply first?
When playing older games that consume almost nothing, no problems at all.
What do you guys have to say about this?


PC specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming OC 8GB
Power supply: be quiet! System Power 9 700W
Motherboard: ASRock B650 Pro RS
RAM: ADATA XPG Lancer RGB 2x16GB DDR5 6000
Monitor: 1920 x 1080 x 165 hertz
CPU Cooling: ID-Cooling SE-224-XTS White
Case: Montech King 95 Pro
 
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What "heavy" games are being played? Source?

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Look in Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer.

Either one or both tools may be capturing some error codes, warnings, or even informational events just before or at the time of the shutdowns.

Reliabiity History/Monitor is much more end user friendly and the timeline formation may reveal some pattern.

Event Viewer requires more time and effort to navigate and understand.

To help:

How To - How to use Windows 10 Event Viewer | Tom's Hardware Forum (tomshardware.com)
 
What "heavy" games are being played? Source?

= = = =

Look in Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer.

Either one or both tools may be capturing some error codes, warnings, or even informational events just before or at the time of the shutdowns.

Reliabiity History/Monitor is much more end user friendly and the timeline formation may reveal some pattern.

Event Viewer requires more time and effort to navigate and understand.

To help:

How To - How to use Windows 10 Event Viewer | Tom's Hardware Forum (tomshardware.com)
Even in CS2, the backlight starts playing like a Christmas tree, so I just turn it off, but the keyboard works, if I start playing more or less normal consumption games, like Escape from Tarkov, GTA DE, the keyboard starts to turn off, and rebooting can solve the problem for a while, lol. The backlight almost always behaves strangely, even on the desktop can be a short blinking.

Monitor and Event Viewer will check it out now and reply, thanks.
 
What "heavy" games are being played? Source?

= = = =

Look in Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer.

Either one or both tools may be capturing some error codes, warnings, or even informational events just before or at the time of the shutdowns.

Reliabiity History/Monitor is much more end user friendly and the timeline formation may reveal some pattern.

Event Viewer requires more time and effort to navigate and understand.

To help:

How To - How to use Windows 10 Event Viewer | Tom's Hardware Forum (tomshardware.com)
I found nothing, there are errors, but they should not be in any way related to the problem, I checked the components in OCCT, ONLY when the GPU is loaded, even at percent 20-30%, problems start to occur
 
What are the errors?

Although the errors may not appear related they and/or the pattern of their appearance could provide some clues.

Windows has many dependencies and the "details" regarding any given error may not be completely or fully accurate. I.e., X causes Y which causes Z and an error about Z does not seem relevant.

How old is that PSU? If I understand correctly, it was installed new about a year ago - please confirm.

Start watching Task Manager and Resource Monitor and watch for something that changes or happens around that 20-30% load on the GPU. Use both tools but, again, only one tool at a time.

Task Manager > Services will provide a lengthy list of what all is running, etc.. Selecting any entry will delve deeper into what the system is doing or trying to do.

Maybe something that you do not recognize or otherwise expect to see.