All games crash

Jameskojiro · January 14, 2020

Specs:

- B450 Aorus Elite (BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. F50, 11/27/2019)

- Gigabyte 2060 Super Windforce

- Corsair Vengeance 3200 16gb (XMP'd)

- Ryzen 5 2600x (w/ Deepcool RBG cooler) (Not OC'd)

- Corsair CX Series 750 Watt 80 Plus Bronze

- Coolermaster H500 ATX case (With mesh front panel)
- Sabrent 1tb NVMe SSD

- Windows 10 Version 10.0.18362 Build 18362 x64

Across (seemingly) all games I'm having a crashing issue. It's consistent ranging from around 10-25 minutes of playtime. To remedy this I have tried:

- Wiping and reinstalling drivers using DDU

- Wiping my SSD (both by reformatting and restoring)

- Updating Windows and BIOS.

I have other symptoms too, I'm unsure if they're related. I have x2 2tb Toshiba HDDs plugged in that my computer refuses to recognize and I do not have the means to test them on another device. One was confirmed working last week.
I've noticed when gaming under the "performance" tab of Task Manager, sometimes my GPU is completely misreading its usage.
It will read 1-5% usage when it should be more like 80-100%.
Sometimes instead of just crashing, I will blue screen with seemingly random codes.

All these symptoms have remained totally consistent since my troubleshooting attempts have been made.

I think that's everything. Thanks for your time guys!

Samfisher · January 14, 2020

Task Manager shows average numbers for all parts of the GPU so the summary graph is inaccurate. Use something like MSI Afterburner. The error code on the BSOD is also important to narrow down what the issue is.