PC is about 4 years old, specs:
CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-core
GPU - Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660Ti
Motherboard - MSI X570 Gaming Plus
RAM - 2x Corsair 32GB 3600MHz
PSU - Corsair RM750x 80+ Gold
Other stuff: Case fan + in-box AMD CPU fan + 2x Corsair fans, Corsair keyboard and mouse, ASUS 1080p monitor, HP 1080p monitor
I am at my wits end here, folks.
My PC has begun randomly rebooting starting this morning. At first it was happening a few minutes after booting, now its only occurring under heavy CPU load. Let me start from the beginning.
I work as a cartographer, and yesterday I downloaded Blender to mess around with the concept of rendering 3D relief maps. All through the day and last night I was rendering with no issue. I went to sleep, and woke up this morning to get started again. However, for some reason I decided this would be the perfect morning to adjust my fan curves. My fans have been overly loud for a very long time. The case fans operate at a constant speed and only the CPU fan adjusts to temperature (save for GPU and chipset fans which do that out of the box). I restarted my computer, launched into the BIOS menu, and adjusted the fan curves. Not too much, I just lowered their thresholds so they wouldn't be so loud during idle. I saved and restarted, and got back to my desktop.
After a couple minutes of programs starting up, the computer rebooted itself. No error message. I continued on, and it happened again a few minutes later. I decided I must've messed something up with the fan settings, maybe I put them too high and they're somehow drawing too much power? I went back to BIOS and adjusted them lower. No luck, PC still kept rebooting. So I went back to the BIOS and reset the fans to factory settings. Yet, upon returning to the desktop, my PC continued to reboot randomly without error messages. So I began troubleshooting.
I decided the issue was that I had set a DC fan to run under PWM mode, and maybe this somehow f'd something up with the port it was plugged into on the motherboard. So I moved it to a different, empty sys_fan port and rebooted. This worked! For a time. Actually, a couple hours. Then I began my first render on Blender. My PC rebooted itself, again. So I tried running the PC with the problem fan unplugged entirely. It rebooted anyway less than a minute after powering up. So then I unplugged all my fans except the PC fan, and that worked, no reboots. At this time, however, I noticed that my RAM was running at 2133 even though my XMP profile was enabled. So I began troubleshooting that. What came next was a slew of computer issues, safe mode launches, powershell commands, disk checks, scans, and diagnostics on top of all sorts of BSODs with errors like "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". After some time, however, the issue solved itself and I discovered my RAM running at 3600 as specified in my XMP profile settings, no more BSODs.
However, now, when I try to run a benchmark test like Cinebench R23, my PC crashes immediately. Any substantial load, which previously was no problem for my PC, now crashes it entirely without an error message.
I don't know what this means. Is my power supply somehow faulty? It certainly has more than enough juice to give, and its good quality. Is my motherboard [anagram vulgarity redacted] ? Did I somehow fry it when adjusting my fan levels?
I don't know what's going on! What's happening to my computer?
CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-core
GPU - Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660Ti
Motherboard - MSI X570 Gaming Plus
RAM - 2x Corsair 32GB 3600MHz
PSU - Corsair RM750x 80+ Gold
Other stuff: Case fan + in-box AMD CPU fan + 2x Corsair fans, Corsair keyboard and mouse, ASUS 1080p monitor, HP 1080p monitor
I am at my wits end here, folks.
My PC has begun randomly rebooting starting this morning. At first it was happening a few minutes after booting, now its only occurring under heavy CPU load. Let me start from the beginning.
I work as a cartographer, and yesterday I downloaded Blender to mess around with the concept of rendering 3D relief maps. All through the day and last night I was rendering with no issue. I went to sleep, and woke up this morning to get started again. However, for some reason I decided this would be the perfect morning to adjust my fan curves. My fans have been overly loud for a very long time. The case fans operate at a constant speed and only the CPU fan adjusts to temperature (save for GPU and chipset fans which do that out of the box). I restarted my computer, launched into the BIOS menu, and adjusted the fan curves. Not too much, I just lowered their thresholds so they wouldn't be so loud during idle. I saved and restarted, and got back to my desktop.
After a couple minutes of programs starting up, the computer rebooted itself. No error message. I continued on, and it happened again a few minutes later. I decided I must've messed something up with the fan settings, maybe I put them too high and they're somehow drawing too much power? I went back to BIOS and adjusted them lower. No luck, PC still kept rebooting. So I went back to the BIOS and reset the fans to factory settings. Yet, upon returning to the desktop, my PC continued to reboot randomly without error messages. So I began troubleshooting.
I decided the issue was that I had set a DC fan to run under PWM mode, and maybe this somehow f'd something up with the port it was plugged into on the motherboard. So I moved it to a different, empty sys_fan port and rebooted. This worked! For a time. Actually, a couple hours. Then I began my first render on Blender. My PC rebooted itself, again. So I tried running the PC with the problem fan unplugged entirely. It rebooted anyway less than a minute after powering up. So then I unplugged all my fans except the PC fan, and that worked, no reboots. At this time, however, I noticed that my RAM was running at 2133 even though my XMP profile was enabled. So I began troubleshooting that. What came next was a slew of computer issues, safe mode launches, powershell commands, disk checks, scans, and diagnostics on top of all sorts of BSODs with errors like "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". After some time, however, the issue solved itself and I discovered my RAM running at 3600 as specified in my XMP profile settings, no more BSODs.
However, now, when I try to run a benchmark test like Cinebench R23, my PC crashes immediately. Any substantial load, which previously was no problem for my PC, now crashes it entirely without an error message.
I don't know what this means. Is my power supply somehow faulty? It certainly has more than enough juice to give, and its good quality. Is my motherboard [anagram vulgarity redacted] ? Did I somehow fry it when adjusting my fan levels?
I don't know what's going on! What's happening to my computer?
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