I have an older gigabyte Z170x Gaming 6 system, SSD only, lots of RAM, H100i water-cooled. It occasionally crashes in an extremely strange way:
I can't think of anything that would behave this way. It is as if some sort of timing happens between a crash event. and the interval shortens. Somehow, when the crashes are a few seconds apart, it resets to a long interval.
The one other problem - the intel CPU is listed as "unsupported" by Windows 11, so I have never been able to upgrade to Win11. Howver, this strange crash behavior started long before that. I've wondered if there is some strange pump problem leading to temperature spike - but crashes are uncorrelated with the temperature Corsair app reports for the system.
This is a job for a real guru of hardware/software
I've tried taking everything apart and cleaning it, no dice, even brushing out the power supply .
It seems like a weird timing issue. I could replace the board,
- OK for weeks or even 3-4 months
- Sudden crash, normal reboot
- Crashes become more frequent, always reboots OK
- Crashes are 1/2 hour, 5 minutes, apart. Sometimes crash asks "do you want to proceed to Windows 10"
- Final crash - I start it, it crashes 3-10 seconds later, reboots itself....
- OK for weeks to months
I can't think of anything that would behave this way. It is as if some sort of timing happens between a crash event. and the interval shortens. Somehow, when the crashes are a few seconds apart, it resets to a long interval.
The one other problem - the intel CPU is listed as "unsupported" by Windows 11, so I have never been able to upgrade to Win11. Howver, this strange crash behavior started long before that. I've wondered if there is some strange pump problem leading to temperature spike - but crashes are uncorrelated with the temperature Corsair app reports for the system.
This is a job for a real guru of hardware/software
I've tried taking everything apart and cleaning it, no dice, even brushing out the power supply .
It seems like a weird timing issue. I could replace the board,