Ryzen 1800x Build Unstable Multiple CPUs/Motherboards/Power Supplies

[ben.perrydev]

My build is as follows:

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x with a Corsair H100i v2 cooler
ASRock x370 Taichi
G.SKILL Flare X DDR4 2400 32gb
Corsair AX860
XFX R9 390X
2x WD Black 2TB
Samsung 960 EVO m.2 500gb
Asus Xonar GX2.5

A bit of history. I originally built this pc with the release of Ryzen. It originally had an Asus Prime x370-pro in it and a Corsair RM750x. It ran pretty solidly for about 2 or 3 months and then I started to get intermittent black screens despite keeping up to date with the BIOS. I saw various users reporting these with the x370-pro even after rma's so I decided to just switch to the ASRock x370 Taichi. Upon this hardware swap I also reinstalled Windows and updated the BIOS.

Things were ok for a week or two and then black screens again. I tried upgrading the power supply to a Corsair AX860, didn't help anything. I also tried reinstalling drivers many times, graphics, cpu, chipset, bios, everything. I use DDU when I mess with the graphics drivers as well. I've run prime95 for a couple hours at a time with no errors, cinebench no errors.

At this point I started a cpu rma with AMD and in the meantime dropped in a new 1800x.

2 days later, black screen is back.

The pc remains stable for 1 - 5 days and then will randomly black screen. Sometimes it's idling, sometimes I'm in the middle of a game, sometimes I'm just browsing the internet. Sometimes it happens when the computer is asleep. All the same symptoms though, the pc's power remains on seemingly, but the displays are black and it is otherwise unresponsive.

It infrequently will provide an error in the event viewer, usually something along the lines of a hardware exception involving a processor core. Often times there is nothing though and windows just reports it as an unexpected restart.

Sometimes it seems to get in a state of instability for whatever reason and it will just continually black screen upon reboots until I go into the bios and load uefi defaults which will then put it into its 1 - 5 days of stability.

I'm at my wits end with this pc and would be quite grateful for any assistance.

 

[Obakasama]

Early days of Ryzen meant there would be RAM compatibility issues. Should be better now but I don't see a G.Skill set of RAM of 32GB on ASRock's QVL which makes me somewhat suspicious. At least I would want to check to see if the RAM is a possible issue, but it would require a known working set of RAM.

I'm sure others will have more informative suggestions.

 

[ben.perrydev]

Early days of Ryzen meant there would be RAM compatibility issues. Should be better now but I don't see a G.Skill set of RAM of 32GB on ASRock's QVL which makes me somewhat suspicious. At least I would want to check to see if the RAM is a possible issue, but it would require a known working set of RAM.

I'm sure others will have more informative suggestions.

My memory is on this motherboard's QVL
https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370%20Taichi/#Memory
F4-2400C15D-32GFX

 

[Guest]

Hey,

I am going to tell you a weird solution that may help you. Do this for 15 days and see what happens.

Disable all kind of overclocking from bios. Specially for CPU And memory.
Disable Dual band 802.11 ac Onboard wifi.
Get a separate wifi usb adapter.

Try a alternate gpu if one of your friends can spare you.

Thank you,
Ishaan

 

[ben.perrydev]

Hey,

I am going to tell you a weird solution that may help you. Do this for 15 days and see what happens.

Disable all kind of overclocking from bios. Specially for CPU And memory.
Disable Dual band 802.11 ac Onboard wifi.
Get a separate wifi usb adapter.

Try a alternate gpu if one of your friends can spare you.

Thank you,
Ishaan

I'm running UEFI defaults on my motherboard.
I'll try disabling wifi (I don't use it anyway)
I'll see what I can do about an alternate gpu. However would I really be getting cpu core hardware events in windows event viewer with a bad gpu?

 

[Guest]

Still disable overclocking in UEFI BIOS DEFAULT SETTINGS Too.

Check default if its enabled.Disable all overclocking and make sure its disabled even in default uefi settings.

I am suspecting a bad gpu, bad mobo or bad ram.Need to clear doubt 1 by 1.

Yes ,its possible to get cpu core hardware events in windows event viewer with a bad gpu, can be a case with gpu over-volting automatically ,causing spike and a black screen.

 

[J_E_D_70]

Have you tried plugging into a different display, using a different kind of cable (dvi, hdmi, display port), and/or plugging a known good device into the display using the cable you normally use?

Edit: I second the idea of trying a different gpu.

 

[vMax]

Just a thought but have you tried using a different set of RAM or even just using 16GB to start with...I have a feeling that RAM is the issue here. It would be good to try a different set just to rule in or out the RAM you are currently using...Ryzen is just so, so finicky with RAM. Not sure if you have 4 sticks x8GB or 2 sticks x16GB...If you have four, just use 2 to start with...