Built my brand new PC two nights ago --- started off with Windows 11 and that night it worked fine. Installed all necessary drivers are everything was good. Next day I started sporadically getting "Driver Power State Failure" BSOD -- but it powered right back right away.
I did all the usual things -- sfc/scan, turn off auto restart + fast boot + changed my power settings to not sleep and all that. Temperatures were always fine and the most strain I put on the computer was Minecraft for 10 minutes. The BSOD around 4x that day even after all the fixes. I also updated to the latest BIOS for MSI (v127 beta).
For context:
CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 7 7700X
Motherboard: MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WiFi
Ram: CORSAIR Vengeance RGB 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000
SSD/HDD: Samsung - 980 PRO 2TB Internal Gaming SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe + SAMSUNG 870 EVO 4TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD
GPU: Sapphire 11323-02-20G Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
PSU: Corsair RM850x (2021) Fully Modular ATX Power Supply, 850 watt
Chassis: NZXT H5 Flow Compact
OS: Windows 10
Then today I was using it and I could immediately tell it was performing much slower. It was laggy and slow to open up applications, change songs on Spotify, whenever I right-clicked, and using premier I could tell I was not getting the performance of my CPU + GPU + RAM. I was also getting a new BSOD -- Driver Verifier Violation.
So -- I decided to turn on XMP, which was a mistake as immediately after my display wouldn't turn on and the orange light for DRAM came up on the motherboard as did the red for CPU. I then reset the CMOS/BIOS and was able to boot up again, but kept getting a new BSOD "Critical Process Died." Now on my 3rd new BSOD -- I decided to do a clean copy of Windows -- this time opting for 10 instead of 11 since I thought 11 might be buggier.
When installing Windows 10, the PC kept restarting during the install. Once finally able to install it all, the PC would automatically restart every few minutes or so. Whenever I tried to download new drivers for the chipsets/GPU, PC would black out and restart. Quite literally I was not able to get more than 6 minutes of screen time before it restarted.
For the restarts, I kept getting the "Critical Error: Kernel power error 41." So, I tested RAM by taking out one stick each time --- still kept restarting. Loosened my CPU cooler fan -- still kept restarting. Unplugged cables from the GPU -- still kept restarting. I made sure to check all the cables for loose connections -- but everything is plugged in tight.
The conclusion I've come to is that this must be a PSU issue -- idk how it was okay the first night and then <Mod Edit> the bed, but I've been trying to diagnose this for 12 hours and have no other answer. I bought a PSU tester from Amazon, but I know it might tell me the PSU voltage is fine, but can't read how it changes under load.
So really I just want to hear your thoughts on what I should do. Almost ready to dismantle it all and return each part, but maybe I'll just replace the PSU first.
I did all the usual things -- sfc/scan, turn off auto restart + fast boot + changed my power settings to not sleep and all that. Temperatures were always fine and the most strain I put on the computer was Minecraft for 10 minutes. The BSOD around 4x that day even after all the fixes. I also updated to the latest BIOS for MSI (v127 beta).
For context:
CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 7 7700X
Motherboard: MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WiFi
Ram: CORSAIR Vengeance RGB 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000
SSD/HDD: Samsung - 980 PRO 2TB Internal Gaming SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe + SAMSUNG 870 EVO 4TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD
GPU: Sapphire 11323-02-20G Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
PSU: Corsair RM850x (2021) Fully Modular ATX Power Supply, 850 watt
Chassis: NZXT H5 Flow Compact
OS: Windows 10
Then today I was using it and I could immediately tell it was performing much slower. It was laggy and slow to open up applications, change songs on Spotify, whenever I right-clicked, and using premier I could tell I was not getting the performance of my CPU + GPU + RAM. I was also getting a new BSOD -- Driver Verifier Violation.
So -- I decided to turn on XMP, which was a mistake as immediately after my display wouldn't turn on and the orange light for DRAM came up on the motherboard as did the red for CPU. I then reset the CMOS/BIOS and was able to boot up again, but kept getting a new BSOD "Critical Process Died." Now on my 3rd new BSOD -- I decided to do a clean copy of Windows -- this time opting for 10 instead of 11 since I thought 11 might be buggier.
When installing Windows 10, the PC kept restarting during the install. Once finally able to install it all, the PC would automatically restart every few minutes or so. Whenever I tried to download new drivers for the chipsets/GPU, PC would black out and restart. Quite literally I was not able to get more than 6 minutes of screen time before it restarted.
For the restarts, I kept getting the "Critical Error: Kernel power error 41." So, I tested RAM by taking out one stick each time --- still kept restarting. Loosened my CPU cooler fan -- still kept restarting. Unplugged cables from the GPU -- still kept restarting. I made sure to check all the cables for loose connections -- but everything is plugged in tight.
The conclusion I've come to is that this must be a PSU issue -- idk how it was okay the first night and then <Mod Edit> the bed, but I've been trying to diagnose this for 12 hours and have no other answer. I bought a PSU tester from Amazon, but I know it might tell me the PSU voltage is fine, but can't read how it changes under load.
So really I just want to hear your thoughts on what I should do. Almost ready to dismantle it all and return each part, but maybe I'll just replace the PSU first.
Last edited by a moderator:
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram