I upgraded to a new mobo and gpu a couple months ago, and it has caused persistent, intermittent instability issues I havn't been able to find the cause for.
The system will crash seemingly at random, but always while under load, while gaming. The system stops responding, the fans and LEDs continue to work, but the I/O doesn't, so I have to turn it off using the power supply switch. An error light on the motherboard will be on, usually the CPU light, but sometimes the VRAM or RAM indicator.
My first thought was that it was a driver issue, since I'd just switched from Intel to AMD, so I ran software to clear up and remove all of the old drivers and reinstalled the current ones. Then I assumed it was a PCU issue, possibly a short somewhere causing the system to crash. I thought I figured it out awhile ago, when I updated the BIOS from what it had by default to F9d. It ran perfectly stable from October until this week, when I started having issues again. I tried updating the BIOS, and thought it fixed the issue like last time, but it persists. Since the issues are intermittent, being able to for hours or even days between crashes sometimes, while others crashing several times in an hour, I havn't done as much hardware troubleshooting. With what I have available, all I can really troubleshoot is trying the RAM sticks independently and in different slots, which I may try next. With how long the last BIOS update seemed to correct the issue, I assumed it was an issue with the BIOS itself. Now I simply don't know what to do.
Hardware/OS:
The system will crash seemingly at random, but always while under load, while gaming. The system stops responding, the fans and LEDs continue to work, but the I/O doesn't, so I have to turn it off using the power supply switch. An error light on the motherboard will be on, usually the CPU light, but sometimes the VRAM or RAM indicator.
My first thought was that it was a driver issue, since I'd just switched from Intel to AMD, so I ran software to clear up and remove all of the old drivers and reinstalled the current ones. Then I assumed it was a PCU issue, possibly a short somewhere causing the system to crash. I thought I figured it out awhile ago, when I updated the BIOS from what it had by default to F9d. It ran perfectly stable from October until this week, when I started having issues again. I tried updating the BIOS, and thought it fixed the issue like last time, but it persists. Since the issues are intermittent, being able to for hours or even days between crashes sometimes, while others crashing several times in an hour, I havn't done as much hardware troubleshooting. With what I have available, all I can really troubleshoot is trying the RAM sticks independently and in different slots, which I may try next. With how long the last BIOS update seemed to correct the issue, I assumed it was an issue with the BIOS itself. Now I simply don't know what to do.
Hardware/OS:
- GIGABYTE B650 Gaming X AX (BIOS version F20a)
- AMD Ryzen™ 5 7600X
- XPG Lancer DDR5 6000MHz 32GB (2x16GB) (clocked at 4800 for the moment, it didn't seem to help)
- Geforce GTX 1660 super
- Windows 11 Home 10.0.22621 Build 22621 (Not activated since the upgrade, not super worried about that issue atm)
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