gordo865

Don't know if it's better to start a new thread or just bump this old one back from the dead, but I'm gonna start here I guess. I ended up buying an ASUS ROG 750w 80+ Gold Power supply on sale from Newegg as mentioned in my posts in this thread. When I eventually got around to replacing my old PSU with the new one, all of my problems seemed to go away. No more crashing. The system was as stable as could be again and all was right in the world....Until last week when it started crashing in the exact same fashion again. Over a year of everything working just fine and we're back to square one some how. I'm not sure what to do here at this point. Would my PSU really degrade like that in just a year? Is it my GPU causing this? Saw someone say in another thread that EVGA 3080 cards in particular are a problem. If I buy another PSU am I just going to be right back here again in a year because my GPU is murdering them?

I updated windows with the in-place upgrade after problems started. GPU driver's have already been done. The bios I had been using was the bios that was on the board when I got it in January of 2021. I updated it after problems started. My system isn't stable. I made changes AFTER the crashing started. I'll give the Ryzen and audio drivers a try though.

Ryzen 7 5800x G.SKill Trident Z RGB 16GB 3200mhz CAS14 RTX 3080 10GB EVGA XC3 Ultra Seasonic Focus+ 80+ Gold 750W ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero Wifi Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280mm Windows 10 I've had this current configuration for 2 years. Stable as could be until a couple of weeks ago. Computer screen goes black and restarts itself when gaming. Doesn't generate a minidump, but it shows up as Kernel Error Event ID 41 task 63. I've done stress tests in OCCT(RAM, CPU, GPU, System 1 hour each), 3D Mark, and Prime 95(1 hour). The computer doesn't crash in any of these stress tests though the CPU did get pretty hot during Prime 95 getting up to 89 which was alarming when I came back to my computer to check on it. My CPU never gets above 65 while gaming and the GPU doesn't get above 80. Not an overheating issue. I've removed my CPU overclock. I've turned off DOCP/XMP for my RAM and had it run at the standard 2133mhz. I've run DDU many times and tried many different driver versions. I've updated my bios. I've done an "in-place upgrade" on windows. I've done Memtes86. I've done chkdsk and SFC in command prompt. Everything is good. After all of that and finding this thread I came to the conclusion that it had to be the PSU, so I bought a new one that will be here Friday. I continued messing around and trying things. I removed my RAM and then reseated them in their DIMM slots. Booted it up and tried to play Warzone with a friend....the game ran fine all night...."Seriously?! No way...?" I was able to play games for 4 days and everything was great until last night it started doing it again...I'm at a loss. I tried the OC Scanner in MSI Afterburner just to see what that would do and it crashed during that process. First time a non-game made the system crash. I've been getting a "USB device not recognized" error whenever I boot up windows and I've figured out that it's from the USB passthrough for one of my monitors. Whenever I unplug it from the MOBO I/O and plug it back in, the error pops back up. I've tried leaving it unplugged and games still crash. Figured it was worth a shot. I genuinely don't know what to make of it anymore. Reseating the RAM somehow was a good temporary fix though I haven't tried it again yet. Maybe it was something else and it was totally unrelated, but I didn't make any other changes. I'm going to try the new PSU when it gets here and see what that does, but if that doesn't work (and I'm having more and more doubts that it will) I have no idea where to go from there. Has anyone ever encountered anything like this before?

Preciate y'all. Was getting nervous there for a minute after reading more and more stuff.

I've had this setup for the last 2 years and it's worked flawlessly. Started getting crashes that would restart my PC while gaming. After extensive troubleshooting and testing I think I'm fairly confident the PSU is going bad. I bought a ASUS ROG Strix 750W PSU this morning because it was on sale for like $50 so I wouldn't have to wait on the RMA process on my old PSU and in the end I'd have a backup. Now I'm seeing more and more people claim that 3080 can hit as high as 500W and 850W is needed. Should I cancel my order and just pay the money for a 850W PSU?

Temps aren't the issue. GPU hovers around 75 under load and CPU never gets above 65. I'm currently trying to run Memtest86, but for some reason no matter how many times I image it onto a USB drive, it refuses to show up in my bios as an option to boot to.

I'm having some issues with my computer restarting on its own while gaming. I've already done basically everything I can do software-wise to fix it. I've done DDU (several times with several different driver versions), a windows in-place upgrade, BIOS update, etc. I'm planning on doing memtest86 tonight to see if it could be my memory. The windows memory test, of course, said there were no issues. My next check after memory is the PSU, but I have no idea how to test that. Is there any way to do that? If not do I just contact Seasonic (There's a 10 year warranty?) and see if they'll send me a replacement and hope that fixes it? I've never had to replace parts before so I'm not sure what happens when troubleshooting fails.

Thanks for the reply. I've had it for about 2 years. Around December or January of 2020/21. It's worked great all this time. Never had any crashing issues. Around that time I upgraded most of my system with the exception of the PSU which I've had since probably April of 2019? This setup has been super stable even with an overclock to 4.7ghz for the last 2 years. CPU has never even approached thermal throttling as I've got a 280mm radiator on it. GPU gets into the high 70's when playing newer games, but nothing that I think anyone would consider unhealthy.

It just started last week. I had been playing the new Call of Duty and started getting these crashes where the screen would go black and the computer would restart. Tried playing Spider-Man and started having the same issue so it wasn't just COD being crappy like I thought. Rolled back drivers from the most recent driver to the 522 driver. Issues persisted. Ran a stress test in OCCT and got a crazy number of CPU Power related errors instantly. Restored BIOS settings to default and errors went away, but when left alone for a few minutes when running OCCT the computer blue screens. The OCCT induced bluescreens and the restart crashes all seem to give me the same critical errors in event viewer. Below is the XML for that critical error that I've gotten pretty much anytime I play COD for more than 5 or so minutes. System specs: Ryzen 7 5800x EVGA RTX 3080 10GB XC Ultra 16GB G.SKILL TridentZ F4-3200C14D-16GTZR ASUS ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Hero MOBO Seasonic FOCUS Plus 750W 80+ Gold PSU Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power Date: 11/14/2022 9:02:54 PM Event ID: 41 Task Category: (63) Level: Critical Keywords: (70368744177664),(2) User: SYSTEM Computer: DESKTOP-19HT8DS Description: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331c3b3a-2005-44c2-ac5e-77220c37d6b4}" /> <EventID>41</EventID> <Version>8</Version> <Level>1</Level> <Task>63</Task> <Opcode>0</Opcode> <Keywords>0x8000400000000002</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2022-11-15T02:02:54.1199607Z" /> <EventRecordID>117745</EventRecordID> <Correlation /> <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" /> <Channel>System</Channel> <Computer>DESKTOP-19HT8DS</Computer> <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /> </System> <EventData> <Data Name="BugcheckCode">292</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x10</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0x0</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0x0</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0x0</Data> <Data Name="SleepInProgress">0</Data> <Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data> <Data Name="BootAppStatus">0</Data> <Data Name="Checkpoint">0</Data> <Data Name="ConnectedStandbyInProgress">false</Data> <Data Name="SystemSleepTransitionsToOn">0</Data> <Data Name="CsEntryScenarioInstanceId">0</Data> <Data Name="BugcheckInfoFromEFI">true</Data> <Data Name="CheckpointStatus">0</Data> <Data Name="CsEntryScenarioInstanceIdV2">0</Data> <Data Name="LongPowerButtonPressDetected">false</Data> </EventData> </Event>

Thank you!

Just upgraded to a Pure Base 500DX case which has a USB-C port on the front, but my B450 Tomahawk (Non-Max) doesn't have a header for it. I hate having a dead port on the front of my case and I can still use a USB-C to USB-A adapter on it so I'd prefer if that port was active. I want to buy a PCIe card that has a USB-C header on it. In particular, this one. I would be putting it into the second 16x slot on my board, but I saw people talking about issues with it possibly affecting my GPU through something called IRQ? There seemed to be some debate about whether or not it was a concern so I wanted to ask here and get some more opinions on my use case specifically.

Thank you for the reply. I hadn't heard that before. I always hear faster memory is better with Ryzen. I'll definitely try lowering my memory clock speed when I get home tonight.

Built my first PC last year and since the beginning it seems I've always had some issues with instability in games. I can't think of a single game I've played that has not crashed at least once. Some crash frequently, some don't. But they all do at some point or another. Games include Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Metro: Exodus, Modern Warfare (by far the worst offender. Sometimes 3 or 4 crashes in one night of playing), RE 2/3/7, RDR2, PUBG, and The Witcher 3. I haven't put much play time into it, but I just bought AC Odyssey the other day and had it crash within the first 10 seconds of trying to run the benchmark. Restarted the computer and it ran fine after that, but it's a small sample size. Had a lot of crashes running the 3D Mark Timespy benchmark. I've even experienced crashes in simpler games like South Park Fractured Butt Whole and Civ VI. In addition to crashing I've noticed very strange behaviors in games. In RE 3, RDR2 and the little bit of AC Odyssey that I've played; I've noticed that animations in in-engine cutscenes look very jittery. The frame rate isn't dropping or anything like that and I only really seem to notice it in character animations. Shadows will often behave strangely in games as well. They often will have flickering type effects that I've noticed in games like RDR2, AC Odyssey, Modern warfare, and the tomb raider games where the console counter parts do not have this effect. Are these types of things the norm? I've been trying to adapt to pc gaming this last year and it just seems like a never ending stream of frustration. CPU: R7 1700 Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black edition GPU: EVGA 2070 Super XC Ultra (Upgraded to this from an ROG Strix RX 580 back in September) RAM: 16GB Team T-Force Vulcan DDR4-3000 PSU: Seasonic FOCUS Plus 750W 80+ Gold MOBO: MSI B450 Tomahawk Storage: Sabrent Rocket 1TB M.2, a 500GB Samsung SSD and a 1TB HDD. Can't remember exactly what kind. Worth mentioning, that I've tried various overclocks on CPU and GPU. I just reverted everything back to stock clocks on CPU and GPU and stopped messing with it. Didn't seem to help any though. I did a fresh wipe and install of Windows when I bought my M.2 in January. I've done DDU numerous times on my GPU drivers. Temps are all good. The GPU can get a little hot in COD sometimes, but I've never seen it go beyond 78­°.