[SOLVED] Pc crashes when i play games

[sniperwolf772]

When I play games on my pc it crashes and sometimes stops detecting my SSD after a crash and I have to keep turning on and off my pc until it somehow fixes itself. My pc is 1080 ti i7-6700k 16 gbs of ram Maximus 8 hero alpha MB 850 watt psu

 

[atomicWAR]

What is the make and model of the PSU...

 

[sniperwolf772]

What is the make and model of the PSU...

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Power/cxm-series-2015-config/p/CP-9020099-NA this is the one i own

 

[boju]

Troubleshoot memory, try one stick at a time.

If your ssd stops being detected soon after crash sounds like its possibly dropping out while in use. If it's an sata ssd, check sata data connection is good both ends and check sata power as well, either might be a smidgen out. Try another data cable.

 

[sniperwolf772]

Troubleshoot memory, try one stick at a time.

If your ssd stops being detected soon after crash sounds like its possibly dropping out while in use. If it's an sata ssd, check sata data connection is good both ends and check sata power as well, either might be a smidgen out. Try another data cable.

but why does my pc crash when I only play games? also, none of my games are on the SSD

 

[boju]

Windows is on the SSD i assume and so is the pagefile? Games can still use onwards of 10GB+ of data written to the pagefile even with 16GB ram. Perhaps check data and power connections as well to the hdd. Bit strange how the SSD disappears after a crash though. Would be worth investigating.

Also troubleshoot memory, one stick at a time.

 

[sniperwolf772]

Windows is on the SSD i assume and so is the pagefile? Games can still use onwards of 10GB+ of data written to the pagefile even with 16GB ram. Perhaps check data and power connections as well to the hdd. Bit strange how the SSD disappears after a crash though. Would be worth investigating.

Also troubleshoot memory, one stick at a time.

how do I troubleshoot my ram?

 

[sniperwolf772]

Windows is on the SSD i assume and so is the pagefile? Games can still use onwards of 10GB+ of data written to the pagefile even with 16GB ram. Perhaps check data and power connections as well to the hdd. Bit strange how the SSD disappears after a crash though. Would be worth investigating.

Also troubleshoot memory, one stick at a time.

I also got ntkrnlmp.exe this as a mini dumb after a crash

 

[boju]

how do I troubleshoot my ram?

How many ram sticks do you have?

https://www.howtogeek.com/260813/how-to-test-your-computers-ram-for-problems/

Either use Window's version or Memtest64. Memtest64 is more thorough.

Or

If you have two sticks of ram try with just one stick and see if it crashes. Then try again with the other stick to determine if faulty.

Single stick configuration 2nd slot from cpu.

 

[boju]

Regarding ntkrnlmp.exe

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3340853/ntoskrnl-exe-ntkrnlmp-exe-causing-bsod.html

Believed to have something to do with something failing in Window's kernel. Could be drivers (peripherals, motherboard - chipset, audio, sata host controller), that'll be digging in quite a bit. Or it could be faulty ram and as i said earlier something wrong with the ssd / and or connection to it.