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Hya! Last year I upgraded my setup, by building a new pc with parts, and since then I had all sorts of non-stop problems (system freezes, total system crash, bsods, application crashes) with this system. After I've tried numerous fixes and changes, gpu driver versions, windows installations, cmd commands, stress tests for cpu gpu or ram, bios settings, even a different Motherboard, i've concluded that my RX 6700 (non-XT) that I had at the time was the culprit (I have loads of details about this "saga" as well), thus I've RMA'd it to the shop I bought it from and got another GPU, a RX 6750 XT, and after that the system was much more stable and the problems seemed to have gone away. Until now. Last week I found the same RAM I had, at a good price, so I went ahead and bought another kit, since I wanted to get more RAM down the line anyway (I only had one 2x8GB kit in my PC until this point). RAM gets to me, I install it next to my current sticks, and theeen... disasters. On the first day I've installed the RAM I kept getting Windows Crashes and System freezes on a 2 hour cooldown. "Well shit, i guess i have bad RAM, time to RMA". So I started testing the RAM with memtest86 (since I already had the stick ready, from the "bad gpu" troubleshooting era before this), and sure enough, with all sticks installed, after letting it run for the whole night, I had the test FAIL with like 40 errors, what's curious though is that when looking at the adresses and GB sector of each error, I had errors on ALL slots, but mostly the last slot. Good. Ok let me just remove the good ram, that I had before, and run the test again only with this "bad" ram. For the purpose of easier clarity: Before this, the initial sticks were placed in slots 2 and 4, in Dual channel mode of course, and i've read it's better to have the last slot occupied to avoid some sort of "echo" effect or something related to the motherboards and the way they are designed. We will call the above configuration of occupied slots - "default". Tested the good sticks in default configuration - Passed, 0 Errors - to provide a baseline. Tested the good sticks on the other slots - Passed, 0 Errors - to check faulty slots. Tested the "bad" sticks in default configuration - Passed, 0 Errors. - huh? Tested the "bad" sticks on the other slots - Passed, 0 Errors - nah this isn't real And finally, I put all the sticks in the same configuration as I had them on the first day, when I got the errors and the system crashes, and let it run over night. - 10 Hours, 7 Passes, 0 Errors. Well, shit. I was so much in disbelief that I thought maybe the XMP profile somehow got disabled, so since it's not on OC speeds, the RAM is much more stable => no errors, but nope, XMP profile was enabled, exactly as I had it before. There's also something else, once when running memtest86, I had the PC just reboot itself without my input, interrupting the test completely... After that day and all those tests, I couldn't draw any conclusion so I just kept using the system as-is, with all RAM sticks installed. After 3 days of the system running just fine, with no problems, now they started to popup again: CS2 Crashes mid game, straight to desktop. Ready or Not crashes while in mission. Hell Let Loose crashes while playing a match. System freezes accompanied by forced reboot Windows blue screen. The Blue screen i've been getting is not quite "normal", it's only on half the screen, the rest being black, and it's very glitchy, the same section is visible like 3-4 times, on the same screen. As I'm writing this article, I kept trying to play Ready Or Not but It crashed 3 times in like 50 minutes, CS2 also crashed again today....so I capitulated. Is the RAM good for my system/cpu/mobo? - From what I've seen there shouldn't be a problem. Maybe it's a defective Mobo? Are AMD systems this bad when it comes to stability? - I've heard they have somewhat of a bad reputation, before the purchase, I didn't think so at all, but after all these months of pain, I don't know what to believe anymore... Is this maybe related to the "bad" GPU I've had? The symptoms are very very similar... maybe that poor RX 6700 had no fault... Could I have gotten "better" parts? - Yes, sure, these are not the "best" parts or brands known for the best quality or "premium-ness" of their products, but I'm not a guy who needs to play the latest and greatest on max settings. I'm a simple PC gamer, I don't mind doing optimizations getting my hands dirty and lowering settings.... Besides, it's more efficient to go for a mid-range build money-wise, the jump to high end is waay more expensive and you don't get much more "bang" for the buck. - So that's why I've chosen these parts/brands, and none of the chosen brands scream "problems" to me. They are not the best but also not the worst. Mid-range! PC Specs: System age - Hardware: 10 months, 18 days System age - OS: 5 months (I went through multiple Windows reinstalls recently...) OS*: Windows 10 22H2 x64 bit, Desktop, Retail CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5GHz CPU Cooler: ID-Cooling SE-224-XT V2 Black RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 16GB DDR4 3600MHz CL18 Dual Channel Kit - CMK16GX4M2D3600C18 x2 (meaning 2 of these 2x8GB kits) GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 6750 XT MOBO: ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4 ATX PSU: Seasonic B12 BC Series, 80 PLUS Bronze, 750W Storage: 1x SSD WD Blue SN570 1TB(System) + 1x SSD Samsung PM981 1TB(Storage) Monitors: 1x Asus PG279Q@144Hz + 1x LG 24GM79G@144Hz, both connected to GPU, thru new Displayport cables I swear this is some Jayz2Cents troubleshooting video where he finds the weirdest most insane issues.... like that GPU Bios version mismatch.,,, I've decided to finally seek help, because I am tired, I am fed up and I don't know what to do anymore. I have no idea what is wrong with my system, it could be connected to the stability issues i've had with the "bad" GPU before, maybe the GPU wasn't even bad and it's the same problem but with different symptoms... I just want it to be over In Event Viewer on the fateful day when I first installed the new RAM, there were LOADS of DistributedCOM, Bits-Client, and also a few Kernel-Power errors:

Hi everyone, I have been experiencing annoying Windows freezes for several months now. The crashes started as my screen froze and a "LiveKernelEvent 141 or 117" in the event manager. The sound through my Logitech G432 headset also dropped out in the process. These days, my screen just cuts out, the sound in the headset crackles for a while but then just resumes. I can even continue to speak in calls, without the screen of course. After a minute, the PC then restarts automatically and I see "Windows Desktop Manager doesn't work anymore" as an explanation. This happens several times a day at random moments. This morning, I started up my PC after being without power for a week after a trip, and after trying to restart 5 times, I still got no image on either of my monitors. I finally got it booted up by briefly removing the cables (HDMI + DP) from the GPU, booting up, shutting down again and then reconnecting the cables. Once it booted up, I got another crash several times in a row with the image dropping out and the Desktop Window Manager as an explanation. It doesn't even matter what I do when it crashes. Sometimes during browsing, sometimes during gaming, sometimes even 1 minute after starting the PC. The crashes have also been gone for a week, but then returned again with no major software and no hardware changes. Sometimes a crash is also accompanied by "Gaming Services reset", but only half the time so I'm guessing it's not the real reason. I also thought the Logitech headset was at the root, but I disconnected the headset once and I still got the same crashes. I did a MEMTEST to test my RAM sticks, but it turns out everything is fine there. Below is the hardware information of my PC: Operating System Windows 11 Pro 64-bit CPU Intel Core i5 9600KF @ 3.70GHz RAM 16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR4 @ 2666MHz (16-18-18-35) Motherboard MSI H310M PRO-M2 PLUS (socket 1151 motherboard with H310 chipset) Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (MSI) Storage 931GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB (SATA (SSD)) 931GB Western Digital WDC WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0 (SATA ) Audio Logitech G432 headset (USB connected) Power Cooler Master 550W PSU Anyone know what the problem is and how to fix it? I myself am thinking more and more towards a hardware problem, but don't know exactly which part. Thanks in advance!

hi guys, so i have a lenovo l340-15IRH gaming i hate it but i have to live with it until collage is over. The other day the gamer i am had to get more fps from games so he watched youtube and decided to change the thermal paste i used a non conductive thermal paste so i dont screw up but nonetheless i still did. I changed my thermal and screw everything back to the way it was and i pressed the power on button but my windows crashed and gave me a blue screen it also had been doing this for a while before when i was playing cs go mostly. Anyways after the bluescreen it closed and rebooted i didnt think anything at the time but when i opened my games i had 1/2 the performance i looked at my tassk manager performance chart and realised im playing on my cpu. I tried most of the software solutions it did not work i deleted and installed everything to no result "Help please"

So i recently swapped my Mobo and PSU (NZXT N7-Z37XT-B1 and Phanteks Revolt X 1200W 80+ Platinum Respectively). I did a clean install of windows and it was running well, and I'm not using the OCing on the board since it isn't very stable. I do have the XMP profile running for my 3600MHz RAM. The crash codes I'm getting are "Paged Fault in Non Paged Area", "Win32kfull.sys", and "Kmode Exception Not Handled". Though mainly the first of the three. I've checked my drivers and wasn't able to find anything out of the ordinary. I've run Memory Diagnostic and nothing went wrong (that i know of). The crash always occurs on bigger games, such as RS Siege, Assassins Creed Odyssey, and Blades and Sorcery (VR). It ran Farming simulator and Sims 4 with no crash. I'm just kind of at a loss for what to do/how to fix it. Thanks for your help and ill provide any additional info that is needed. PS. For the record, my last Mobo/PSU i didn't run into any crashes even when OC the CPU.

Recently upgraded my cpu to a used 2600k and have started in the last 2 weeks to have crashes on my system. Primarily when gaming the game will flash to a black screen and popup some variation of a graphics crash warning. Windows 10 notification area then gives a warning saying application x has been blocked from accessing graphics hardware. if I then. Try and play a game without restarting I suffer significant frame rate loss but don't see further crashes. This has now been happening on Overwatch, GTAV and other titles with even Google Chrome having the same crash and warnings. This is on windows 10 64 bit anniversary edotion (maybe causing the issue?) Specs: i7 2600k, gigabyte ud3h motherboard, 16gb Corsair vengeance, 120gb Samsung SSD, 2tb hdd, evga 780 sc edition gpu and 650 Watt bronze antec psu. The issue seems to be getting worse with occasional windows crashes and boot failures which were previously never seen before. I have used DDU and reinstalled drivers multiple times and have recently updated mobo and cpu bios and drivers also. Thanks in advance guys

Dear Reader, I have had some trouble with windows running stable for the last 3 weeks. And of course it crashed in the beginning of this week at the worst moment. I am not able to recover the windows install. So I want to go back to Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.3 (because Ryzen)) for this server of mine. All said and done: I try to mount the ntfs partitions (because +-10Tb of data) and I get this error: Status (terminal): PC@Ubuntu-VM-Hosty:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sdf 8:80 0 2,7T 0 disk ├─sdf1 8:81 0 128M 0 part └─sdf2 8:82 0 2,7T 0 part sdd 8:48 0 931,5G 0 disk ├─sdd2 8:50 0 931,4G 0 part └─sdd1 8:49 0 128M 0 part sdb 8:16 0 2,7T 0 disk ├─sdb2 8:18 0 2T 0 part ├─sdb3 8:19 0 746,4G 0 part └─sdb1 8:17 0 128M 0 part sde 8:64 0 931,5G 0 disk ├─sde2 8:66 0 931,4G 0 part └─sde1 8:65 0 128M 0 part sdc 8:32 0 117,4G 0 disk ├─sdc2 8:34 0 116,9G 0 part └─sdc1 8:33 0 500M 0 part sda 8:0 0 2,7T 0 disk ├─sda4 8:4 0 500G 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 300G 0 part ├─sda5 8:5 0 931,4G 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 20G 0 part ├─sda1 8:1 0 128M 0 part └─sda6 8:6 0 1T 0 part nvme0n1 259:0 0 27,3G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 7,6G 0 part / ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 1,9G 0 part [SWAP] ├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 17,7G 0 part /media/Optane └─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 75M 0 part /boot/efi PC@Ubuntu-VM-Hosty:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda2 /media/Vm The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option. PC@Ubuntu-VM-Hosty:~$ What am I doing wrong here or what am I forgetting? (I have done this succes fully in the past with Ubuntu 14.03) edit: Yes, i am running optane nvme on ryzen as een ssd

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but I am really in need of some help. So I have this constant issue that randomly popped up and Its been happening for so long. I start up my computer and run a game, ANY GAME. I run it pretty hard either being CSGO or World of Warcraft or even Battlefield 1 (being a few main titles I play as an example). If it makes it to the end of the day (meaning if the drivers don't crash) I keep my computer on (it never enters sleep mode) and I manually turn off the monitors. The next day I turn on my monitors and continue gaming and randomly everything on my computer will start to slow down. Either the graphics driver will crash and restart its self fixing the lag but also causing weird mouse DPI issues being inconsistent causing me to have to restart the computer anyways or the computer will freeze and lag to the point I turn off the game and windows will entirely freeze and not fix itself, but sound still plays. It usually occurs when I run a game for a long period of time but sometimes it will do it randomly out of the blue when I am programming or watching youtube. I have tried a full windows reinstall, clean installed my graphics drivers 100 times and used a whole group of different versions including the latest one. I have also tried using DDU (Display driver uninstaller) multiple times with no luck. I have also tried using my old GTX 980 TI and it has the same issues so I am beginning to think its not a graphics drivers problem. I don't recall having this issue on windows 8.1 but I can't remember if I exchanged parts in my computer when I was running windows 8.1 or windows 10 so I am unsure if a new part is causing the issue. The usages are normal being CPU and RAM, usually around 45% CPU under load and no more than 85% RAM under load. It is so mind boggling because most of these parts are brand new or just a year or so out of date. There is no thermal throttling from the CPU or GPU according to Open Hardware Monitor and I have also watched the temps via MSI Afterburner. My specs; Windows 10 (latest) Nvidia GTX 1070 (latest driver) Intel Core i7 4790k z87 MPOWER MAX (MS-7815) Motherboard. (latest bios) DDR3 Single Channel 16gb Ripjaws 250gb SSD Samsung 850 evo (windows install only) 1tb HDD (runs my games) 750W endermax power supply (5 years old) NZXT Black Phantom Case. Any help would be appreciated, I have been struggling with this way too long and I can't put up with it anymore. If you need additional information I will provide it. Thank you.

I have been using a legit copy of Windows 10 Home for a while. There have been some apps which crash without any notice (Although vegas showed an unmanaged exception for .NET) Check out the problem description here - https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1002072-third-party-apps-like-photoshop-and-blender-crash-without-any-notice/?tab=comments#comment-12052052 Does anyone know why this is happening... I tried contacting Microsoft.... their solution worked, but after installing a few more apps the issue started all over again Link to Microsoft Answer - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/software-like-photoshop-vegas-and-blender-crash/9d31f33d-8e2b-45b4-a2bf-e5a646f3fd56 "THIS PROBLEM IS NOT GETTING SOLVED AND IS ONE OF THE MOST HEAD BREAKING ISSUES I HAVE EVER SEEN" Although, my last option is a format and get back to my semi-legit Windows 10 Pro...... Please help out LTT Community, I have a lot hope from your genius minds

Just upgrades my pc but i cant be satisfied with it, having different kind of problems everyday, bought this Sapphire rx 590 nitro+ 2days ago. First there was some drive issue, that's why still cant use msi , gpu-z sapphire trixx, this softwares isnt showing gpu temp/core clock,fan speed. and now/today bought another stick of 8gb ram, and they amd recommend me to install 18.12.2 driver,,but i already had this driver but still i installed the same driver. after some time maybe 1/2 hours later, everytime i try to open any games, the pc reboots, even something i quit the game the pc reboots, at first i thought the ram is faulty, then i unplug this new ram,,and tried with my old one but still pc rebooting, then i thought i has psu issue, even though this psu is new, bought it with me gpu. its thermaltake smart modular 630w, (i know this isn't the best) then i installed 18.12.3 driver optional one, and then tried to open games and close,,tried this more than 1 hour but then there was no random rebooting, So i'm not sure that gpu driver did that, or maybe it can ?

So I have built my new pc Specs: Ryzen 5 2600x Rx 570 8gb MSI Armor OC ASRock B450 Pro4-f Motherboard 8 gb ddr4 3000 mhz RAM from Thermaltake 500 gb + 1tb HDD 550W Antec Semi Moduler 80+ Bronz Certified Power Supply I assembled my pc myself for the first time it worked perfectly for like 2 weeks. Then windows started to crash in every 2-3 days sometimes with blue screen and sometime it just restarted (specially on startups). Today I reinstalled the windows ran the pc for like 6 hours then shut it down for a minute and then turned it on and while I was working on excel it freezed and I had to forcefully restart it. Tried searching online for solution couldn't solve it. I'm not understanding which hardware is defective (if hardware there is hardware issue). Please help me solve this issue I'm panicking right now. I didn't overclock anything previously enabled xmp profile now I have disabled it.

Hello there, Here is a list of my current computer components. Case: Corsair 250D CPU: i5 4670k GPU: GeForce GTX 970 (Asus STRIX 4GB DCUII) PSU: Corsair AX760 Motherboard: Asus Maximus Inpact VI Mini ITX OS: Windows 10 64bit HDD1: WD Black 2TB HDD2: WD Black 3TB SSD: Corsiar 120 GB (Forgot brand) RAM: Corsair Domination Platinum 2x4GB at 2133mhz First up a few things, The WD Black 3TB was recently installed like not 4 days ago, and it seems to work just fine The GTX 970 was installed 2 days ago, in which my troubles began. I feel like when installing these two items, I done nothing wrong, Also this whole rig is my first rig ever, How ever these two new components is the first major change to the build. Also windows 10 is installed on the SSD! So Why do I require aid? Basically, Windows 10 crashes on lite work loads, So when I am internet browsing after 10 minutes it crashes. When I am downloading and leaving the computer by it self. It just crashes. This never happened prior to installing the GTX 970 at all! I don't know what else to include, but after 10 or so minutes it just crashes to the blue screen So if you are reading this would you have any advice to an amature builder? Also thank you for reading! And.... Potentially helping me!

I recently built my first PC, specs listed below. Everything worked great for first 3 weeks then started getting server kicked from counter strike global offensive games the only fix being that i could verify the integrity of game cache. As these got more frequent i started getting blue screen crashes with the MEMORY_MANAGEMENT error listed. First i thought windows may have corrupted my SSD which i had windows 8.1 installed on and a few games like CG-GO and LOL. Yesterday i wiped my SSD and re installed windows and i have had two blue screen crashes one with the error code of MEMORY_MANAGEMENT and the second being a NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM, and countless game crashes saying windows has detected a problem. I've only just started taking a interest into PC gaming and building PC's so my knowledge is still quite little. But any help would be greatly appreciated. PC SPECS: Intel Core i5 4690K MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Motherboard MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4GB Kingston HyperX Savage HX321c11SRK2/8 (2x4GB) DDR3 Samsung 840 EVO 240GB SSD Seagate barracuda 2TB Corsair RM-850 80 Plus Gold Power Supply NZXT Kraken X61 Liquid CPU Cooler