Just like the title says I have been struggling for months to determine the cause of my computer lockups.
First off, the symptom: regularly while under heavy load my computer will suddenly completely lock up ie: whatever was on the display at the time gets frozen there, audio from the speakers is stuck in a very short stuttered loop, all peripherals are also frozen (lights on my keyboard and mouse stop changing and are locked in whatever state they were in at the time of crash. Just like the monitors).
Occasionally, anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds into this, it manages to bounce back. Normally however it stays in this state until I manually power cycle the machine.
Event viewer shows a critical Kernel power 41 event.
Ive done a lot of research trying to fix this and am hoping that the symptoms sound like the failure of some component to someone so that I can start replacing parts intelligently.
Things I've tried...
Updating all drivers with driver easy (even paid for the license so I wouldn't muck it up)
Monitoring temperatures at crash times (always within safe limits)
Replacing a very old HDD as the likely cause
Dusting and refaceting all cables, cards, ram sticks within the case interior
Disconnecting the cases front usb panel in case of a short (I know one of the usb ports doesn't work there)
Replacing old RAM
Checking hard drive health
Completely reinstalled Windows twice
My case is very old so I am replacing that. I will list my components below. It is worth noting that I replaced my R9 380 GPU with the current GTX 970 that I have. My best educated guess at this problem is that I have added too power hungry of a GPU as well as an SSD without upgrading my PSU. I was confident my 750W gold standard Corsair was sufficient enough but at this point I am trying anything.
I have a 1000w Rosewill PSU on the way but I want to hear what the community thinks. I am hoping the issue is specific enough that it's a lightbulb moment for someone lol!
2x Monitors (one with freesync Display Port other HDMI)
750W GOLD cert Corsair PSU
AMD FX-8350 8 core 4.0 ghz
NVIDIA GTX 970
MSI Gaming 970 mobo
4x 4GB Kingston HyperX Blu RAM
128 GB SSD (OS installed here)
250 GB SSD
1 TB HDD
Lots of Razer peripherals (most have been unplugged while troubleshooting)
First off, the symptom: regularly while under heavy load my computer will suddenly completely lock up ie: whatever was on the display at the time gets frozen there, audio from the speakers is stuck in a very short stuttered loop, all peripherals are also frozen (lights on my keyboard and mouse stop changing and are locked in whatever state they were in at the time of crash. Just like the monitors).
Occasionally, anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds into this, it manages to bounce back. Normally however it stays in this state until I manually power cycle the machine.
Event viewer shows a critical Kernel power 41 event.
Ive done a lot of research trying to fix this and am hoping that the symptoms sound like the failure of some component to someone so that I can start replacing parts intelligently.
Things I've tried...
Updating all drivers with driver easy (even paid for the license so I wouldn't muck it up)
Monitoring temperatures at crash times (always within safe limits)
Replacing a very old HDD as the likely cause
Dusting and refaceting all cables, cards, ram sticks within the case interior
Disconnecting the cases front usb panel in case of a short (I know one of the usb ports doesn't work there)
Replacing old RAM
Checking hard drive health
Completely reinstalled Windows twice
My case is very old so I am replacing that. I will list my components below. It is worth noting that I replaced my R9 380 GPU with the current GTX 970 that I have. My best educated guess at this problem is that I have added too power hungry of a GPU as well as an SSD without upgrading my PSU. I was confident my 750W gold standard Corsair was sufficient enough but at this point I am trying anything.
I have a 1000w Rosewill PSU on the way but I want to hear what the community thinks. I am hoping the issue is specific enough that it's a lightbulb moment for someone lol!
2x Monitors (one with freesync Display Port other HDMI)
750W GOLD cert Corsair PSU
AMD FX-8350 8 core 4.0 ghz
NVIDIA GTX 970
MSI Gaming 970 mobo
4x 4GB Kingston HyperX Blu RAM
128 GB SSD (OS installed here)
250 GB SSD
1 TB HDD
Lots of Razer peripherals (most have been unplugged while troubleshooting)