System Specs:
- Ryzen 5 5600x
- Radeon RX 5600 XT
- Asus ROG Strix B550-I Gaming motherboard
- 2x G.Skil F4-3600C18-16GTZR DDR4
- Samsung SSD 980 500gb
- ST1000LX015 - 1U7172
So I built my PC summer of last year and it’s been working great. Lately though, I’ve been getting into more demanding games and my GPU was crashing as a result. It would get random 100% utilization spikes, and my computer would freeze up and crash. Sometimes I would get a driver timeout message, sometimes not. To try to fix it, I reinstalled drivers for the GPU and updated the mobo chipset. Neither of those worked, but then I used MSI Afterburner to set the max clock speed from 1780MHz to 1730MHz and it was working flawlessly.
Since I was doing all of this, I thought I might as well update my motherboard bios too and it’s currently running Version 3002. I used the bios flashback method. After updating the bios, I also updated windows. But since then (2 days ago) my computer keeps crashing randomly, even when I have no games open and I’m just using my browser. It doesn’t give me any blue screen or anything. My screens will suddenly freeze up and then the system goes black, and starts back up showing the “Press F2 for bios” screen and starts up windows as if nothing happened.
I have no idea where to go from here. Should I try flashing an older bios back onto the motherboard?