Question PC Crashing, black screen after wards & not booting until multiple restarts

Oct 28, 2024
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Hello. I'm having issues again with my PC and I can't figure out what the issue is. I've made a post in the past and the solution was updating BIOS which solved it for almost 2 months, however, the issues are back and I don't know what to do. The temps are looking good, I'm only playing a 20 years old game (World of Warcraft) on it and windows/PC randomly just freezes, the screen turns black and I need to restart.

When restarting after crash :
- sometimes it goes straight into windows
- sometimes it directs me straight into bios where I've noticed the NVMe doesn't show up/get detected
- other times the screen just turns black and I need to keep restarting it until it gets to booting.

I've noticed a red led bleeping weather it crashes or I simply restart PC for any reason, unsure if that's supposed to mean something. (I will try to figure out which of the leds bleeps next time it crashes)

Updated windows to windows 11, updated the graphics driver, updated the bios (Solved the issue for almost 2 months) tried to stress test it for a bit over and hour and had no issues/crashes, done multiple benchmarks and no issues. Only thing I didn't try was switching the NVMe to 2nd slot and I got no clue if I should set anything up in BIOS in terms of settings there or if is just something related to this model of motherboard.

I could find a topic on reddit with people having similar issues some 5 years ago, but no solution (https://www.reddit.com/r/MSI_Gaming/comments/db363e/msi_b450_gaming_pro_carbon_2nd_nvme_ssd/)

It happens randomly, can have 2-3 days without any issues and then all of the sudden have the issue for few times, forcing me to restart PC, after which it gets back to normal.

Unsure if I should just give up on the NVMe and just get a normal SSD or keep trying to find solutions for this. Please help and thank you in advance.

CPU: Ryzen7 2700x
CPU cooler: Cooling Frostflow 240 XT
Motherboard: MSI B450 GAMING PRO CARBON MAX WIFI AM4
Ram: G.SKILL Aegis, 16GB(2x8GB) DDR4, 3200MHz CL16, Dual Channel Kit
SSD/HDD: SSD ADATA XPG Spectrix S40G RGB 1TB PCI Express 3.0 x4 M.2 2280
GPU: RTX2060 (Drivers up to date)
PSU: Cooler Master MWE Bronze 550w)
Chassis: DeepCool CH510 Mesh Digital
OS: Windows 11 (up to date)
BIOS Version : 7B85v2F
(Old topic : https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/random-freeze-issues-starting-pc-afterwards.3858671/)