Test if Motherboard is Bad?

CmdrJeffSinclair

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Hi everyone,

I've tested my entire laptop for a reason as to why it keeps freezing, BlackSOD'ing, and crashing.

I've used
AIDA64
Windows 7 Memory Diagnostic
Prime95
OCCT 4.1
CPUID Hardware Monitor
As well as a variety of other Windows diagnostics

Since every single thing on my computer came up error free and within nominal temps, should I then assume my motherboard is the reason?

Thanks, and it'd be nice to know if there was a software to check if my mobo is overvolting or dying somehow.

GPU under 85C under max load, 90C is typical and 100C causes a safety shutdown
CPU doesn't even hit 75C under immense stress testing with Prime95 and AIDA64, no errors
HDD has no bad sectors or corruptions, faults are rare at best
RAM came up error free
ADAPTER is still fairly new as well and is designed specifically for this very laptop

None of this makes sense. I can say that the HDMI port has been totally screwing up hardcore lately but I rarely use it so I don't care, but perhaps that is an indication that parts of my motherboard are just dying.

The laptop is 7 years old this Christmas, so I'm not surprised but it still shouldn't die healthy. A PC dies deader than death when it's well past it's time to be replaced, but this stupid thing has lived years past being "good" and long ago entered into "total diarrhea-ness" so it should reflect that by showing some errors or be getting really hot or have glitches and other bad stuff by now. But nothing shows up as wrong. It's apparently in perfect, aside from this one horrid issue. It's like it's the healthiest piece of crap to ever live when it should be dead, but when I test it to see what wrong it gets a lollipop for being healthy.

Anyone have any idea what I can do to test to see if my mobo is the culprit? A mobo that acts up like this because it's faulty is nothing unheard of, but when a faulty motherboard acts up like this but all it's connected components are magically OK makes zero sense since the mobo connects everything.
 


Hey there, thanks for the response. It happens only during gaming. Any game no matter what. I have games as old as 1998 and as new as 2014, doesn't matter. I can play blu rays, browse internet and do and stress test all day long without issue. Play a game and BlackSOD or freeze. Hard reboot required.

Drivers that are fully updated for all the games has ZERO bearing on the crashing. If it was a driver issue I know what it'd look like. I swear an Imp has dedicated itself to confusing me and ruining my laptop
 

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