Just starting these past few days or so I've been unable to play any actual games on my pc without everything freezing, audio hanging, and then my monitor losing connection to my pc. I can't even manage to understand what's causing the issue directly and whether or not any of it is a hardware or software issue.
First I was playing batman arkham knight, suddenly the game froze, audio started spazzing out, then all I saw was a black screen and my monitor telling me it had no signal. I had to hard reset holding the power button and everything powered back up normal.
Second time I was intentionally testing out the waters with nier automata to see if the crash or any issues would arise again. The game started to lag a little along with the audio about 15 to 20 minutes in and then suddenly froze, then a blue screen (which was new).
I checked the .dmp files and it was a watchdog.sys crash, which lead me to believe it was something to do with the gpu drivers. So I went through the whole process of cleanly uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers and thought everything was back to normal, but sadly upon playing arkham knight again, the game instantly crashed without warning, my monitor lost connection for just a moment then I was back at the desktop, though strangely my refresh rate wasn't smooth at all, and I couldn't fix it without a restart.
After that I went through most of the day just using my pc and not playing any games, and not a single issue. I can browse and do anything else and you wouldn't think anything was wrong.
Then I decided to try and play witcher 3, upon playing the game for about 5 to 6 minutes, it started to lag and the audio spazzed out. i managed to close the game and did a system file check, and found some corrupted files in my pc. I then restarted and gave witcher 3 another run, upon which it properly crashed and I lost connection to my monitor again and had to restart my pc via power button.
I haven't done any other tests but I have no idea what's going on. I can't find any other similar situations online, or any actual helpful information for that matter. I don't want to make any assumptions and go buy parts I don't need, any help would be appreciated.
tldr; pc hangs then crashes when I play heavy gpu intensive games. Typically leaves monitor disconnected and have to restart with power button.
MY SPECS:
gpu: gtx 1660 ti
cpu: ryzen 5 2600
motherboard: ASRock A320M-HDV R4.0 (AM4)
psu: kratos m1-550B bronze plus
First I was playing batman arkham knight, suddenly the game froze, audio started spazzing out, then all I saw was a black screen and my monitor telling me it had no signal. I had to hard reset holding the power button and everything powered back up normal.
Second time I was intentionally testing out the waters with nier automata to see if the crash or any issues would arise again. The game started to lag a little along with the audio about 15 to 20 minutes in and then suddenly froze, then a blue screen (which was new).
I checked the .dmp files and it was a watchdog.sys crash, which lead me to believe it was something to do with the gpu drivers. So I went through the whole process of cleanly uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers and thought everything was back to normal, but sadly upon playing arkham knight again, the game instantly crashed without warning, my monitor lost connection for just a moment then I was back at the desktop, though strangely my refresh rate wasn't smooth at all, and I couldn't fix it without a restart.
After that I went through most of the day just using my pc and not playing any games, and not a single issue. I can browse and do anything else and you wouldn't think anything was wrong.
Then I decided to try and play witcher 3, upon playing the game for about 5 to 6 minutes, it started to lag and the audio spazzed out. i managed to close the game and did a system file check, and found some corrupted files in my pc. I then restarted and gave witcher 3 another run, upon which it properly crashed and I lost connection to my monitor again and had to restart my pc via power button.
I haven't done any other tests but I have no idea what's going on. I can't find any other similar situations online, or any actual helpful information for that matter. I don't want to make any assumptions and go buy parts I don't need, any help would be appreciated.
tldr; pc hangs then crashes when I play heavy gpu intensive games. Typically leaves monitor disconnected and have to restart with power button.
MY SPECS:
gpu: gtx 1660 ti
cpu: ryzen 5 2600
motherboard: ASRock A320M-HDV R4.0 (AM4)
psu: kratos m1-550B bronze plus