I built this PC in February this year www.pcpartpicker.com/list/xFstcY .
The PC seemingly works fine. I've had extensive gaming sessions on it, I've thrown every stress test and benchmark onto it to check if everything is fine. GPU has low temps in games, handles every gaming session with zero issues, maxes out at 75c during Furmark, can go into infinity without dropping FPS. RAM was tested on the 3200mhz xmp profile in memtest86 overnight, no errors. Did AIDA64 stability test and Prime95 for 8 hours, no crashes.
Sounds very stable right? But every once or twice a week, at random times while using Firefox or Discord, the PC freezes and becomes completely unresponsive for around 5 seconds, then the monitor loses signal and the CPU debug light on the mobo lights up.
Case fans go up to 100% as well. It just stays like that until I force restart it. I tried switching power profiles, lowering my RAM speed. No dice.
Tried looking for any info on the crash in event viewer and WhoCrashed. WhoCrashed shows absolutely nothing about it and the event viewer isn't any more helpful either. It just throws a critical error that the system has rebooted without shutting down first.
Tried reinstalling windows and fresh drivers too, same thing. In fact, it happened 8 times since I fresh installed windows 10 on 9th of july. I will probably try replacing my PSU soon but just putting this here to check if anyone has any ideas.
today it happened after i played witcher 3 for 3 hours straight, then i shut the game down and opened twitch on firefox and it froze
one of the times it happened as soon as i turned on the computer and opened discord
Literally any kind of suggestion is appreciated because I am absolutely dumbfounded right now
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The PC seemingly works fine. I've had extensive gaming sessions on it, I've thrown every stress test and benchmark onto it to check if everything is fine. GPU has low temps in games, handles every gaming session with zero issues, maxes out at 75c during Furmark, can go into infinity without dropping FPS. RAM was tested on the 3200mhz xmp profile in memtest86 overnight, no errors. Did AIDA64 stability test and Prime95 for 8 hours, no crashes.
Sounds very stable right? But every once or twice a week, at random times while using Firefox or Discord, the PC freezes and becomes completely unresponsive for around 5 seconds, then the monitor loses signal and the CPU debug light on the mobo lights up.
Case fans go up to 100% as well. It just stays like that until I force restart it. I tried switching power profiles, lowering my RAM speed. No dice.
Tried looking for any info on the crash in event viewer and WhoCrashed. WhoCrashed shows absolutely nothing about it and the event viewer isn't any more helpful either. It just throws a critical error that the system has rebooted without shutting down first.
Tried reinstalling windows and fresh drivers too, same thing. In fact, it happened 8 times since I fresh installed windows 10 on 9th of july. I will probably try replacing my PSU soon but just putting this here to check if anyone has any ideas.
today it happened after i played witcher 3 for 3 hours straight, then i shut the game down and opened twitch on firefox and it froze
one of the times it happened as soon as i turned on the computer and opened discord
Literally any kind of suggestion is appreciated because I am absolutely dumbfounded right now
[Moderator note: edited post to break up wall of text.]
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