First off, I am not entirely sure of the problem, and am putting this in Power Supplies because it's the best guess I've got right now.
As of two days ago, I've started having blue screen crashes when playing games on my computer. I've had the computer for around a year and am having these problems on games which previously played fine.
The first time I had this problem, a Windows 8 blue screen came up with the error code 'whea_uncorrectable_error'. Every time since (twice), the blue screen has not rendered properly and I have been forced to hold down the power button in order to turn off my computer.
The first time, I also got a message saying something about 'ASUS Anti-Surge', which I gather is to do with a surge from the power supply (hence this is in the power supplies section) but again that message did not come up the other two times.
The only possible trigger is that I recently installed 'Settlers: Rise of an Empire' and this game was the first to crash (it crashed the first time I played it) and since then other games which previously ran fine (namely Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3) have both crashed.
I confirmed this is not a problem with overheating by booting up and going into BIOS directly after the shutdown, which confirmed that the temperature was a normal value.
System specs:
If you need further system specs I can look up the details, just don't have them on hand right now.
As of two days ago, I've started having blue screen crashes when playing games on my computer. I've had the computer for around a year and am having these problems on games which previously played fine.
The first time I had this problem, a Windows 8 blue screen came up with the error code 'whea_uncorrectable_error'. Every time since (twice), the blue screen has not rendered properly and I have been forced to hold down the power button in order to turn off my computer.
The first time, I also got a message saying something about 'ASUS Anti-Surge', which I gather is to do with a surge from the power supply (hence this is in the power supplies section) but again that message did not come up the other two times.
The only possible trigger is that I recently installed 'Settlers: Rise of an Empire' and this game was the first to crash (it crashed the first time I played it) and since then other games which previously ran fine (namely Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3) have both crashed.
I confirmed this is not a problem with overheating by booting up and going into BIOS directly after the shutdown, which confirmed that the temperature was a normal value.
System specs:
Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Intel Core i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
16GB DDR3 RAM
If you need further system specs I can look up the details, just don't have them on hand right now.
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