My PC has gone haywire over the last 3 days. Please help.

[Natsoup]

Hello all. I've been having a LOT of issues with my PC lately. (Before reading, this is what I mean when I say my PC crashes)

(original help post)

 

 In the beginning, the only issue was that it would freeze occasionally after I closed a game or it stopped rendering 3d objects (loading screen, returning to a menu, etc). 

To fix this, I:

1. Ran Malwarebytes

2. DDU'd

3. Tested RAM with Windows Memory Tester (whatever their built-in tool is)

4. Restored BIOS to defaults

 

But none of these fixed. later, the crashing started to become more frequent. As soon as I exited a game or it stopped rendering, the PC would crash hard. 

Upon reboot, it started to show "Preparing Automatic Repairs" and doing its thing, and then failing to start windows. The bug happened once more and windows failed, so last night I let the windows installer run again, and Started fresh. wiped the drive completely. Now, my sound doesn't work! It worked for a little while but I had to plug into my monitor's Audio i/o. It seems my Motherboard's audio isnt even recognized by the system anymore. Is this whole thing because of sound, especially considering that the original crashes had this earrape sound coming through upon crashing? Please help. Thanks.

 

EDIT: Here are my parts. https://pcpartpicker.com/user/natsoup/saved/#view=n4NgsY

only exception is that the ram is 1x16gb Crucial Ballistix 2400mhz

[DrMacintosh]

Audio is handled by the motherboard. It could be having issues.  

[Natsoup]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Audio is handled by the motherboard. It could be having issues.  

It always worked in the past. Any reason it would just randomly bork?

 

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, Natsoup said:

It always worked in the past. Any reason it would just randomly bork?

 

no, but thats the problem with PCs now isnt it?

[Natsoup]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

no, but thats the problem with PCs now isnt it?

I wouldn't know.

[Guest]

I liked the panic vid you made there. Nice action shot.

 

On topic: in the past I had a motherboard with a broken onboard soundcard. (dropped a screw on it, PCB got fried) PC would boot/post, but it would take a long time. And it would crash when loading windows. I disabled the onboard audio, and the system became 100% stable and functional again. (except for the onboard sound, which didn't do a thing)

 

I then got an external USB soundcard, to get my audio back. Managed to use that pc 24/7 for another 7 years.

 

TLDR: check your bios. Disable onboard audio. Check if system will remain stable. If it remains stable, you have found your problem. Send motherboard back under warranty, or get an external or PCI-e soundcard.

[Natsoup]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

I liked the panic vid you made there. Nice action shot.

 

On topic: in the past I had a motherboard with a broken onboard soundcard. (dropped a screw on it, PCB got fried) PC would boot/post, but it would take a long time. And it would crash when loading windows. I disabled the onboard audio, and the system became 100% stable and functional again. (except for the onboard sound, which didn't do a thing)

 

I then got an external USB soundcard, to get my audio back. Managed to use that pc 24/7 for another 7 years.

 

TLDR: check your bios. Disable onboard audio. Check if system will remain stable. If it remains stable, you have found your problem. Send motherboard back under warranty, or get an external or PCI-e soundcard.

gonna give this a try right now. I think I may have turned off HD audio controller when I restored to defaults so now I'm booting with it on. That may have been the sound issue, lol. Question is, will the incessant crashing return?

[Guest]

When I had my issue, I had to turn off my onboard audio in the BIOS, because otherwise Windows would still try to load them drivers. (even though they would be turned off afterwards) But this is how I fixed my issue with a really broken onboard sound chip.

[Leonard]

This could be a boot record issue and it very hard to fix, you can try a clean boot but it isn't a 100% guarantee that it would fix your specific problem. The next option is to reinstall windows. If after you did the reinstall and the problem persist then it is most likely a hardware issue.

[weed]

I dont have alot of knowledge about computers but i will try to help you anyways

 

Have you ruled out other hardware? maybe its a CPU problem you said that it would stop rendering things, and also do you hard reboot your computer alot? because i got a similar problem in my old desktop i used to hard reboot the living hell out of that computer, and i got the same error as you, and it turned out i caused it by hard rebooting alot +1 for me for destroying that computer. And when you are putting the sound/audio jack whatever its called do you force it into the computer like a mad man? well thats all the help i can give you and hopefully things will improve for you my friend 

[Natsoup]

@Dutch-stoner @DrMacintosh @weed

 

I fully wiped my SSD and reinstalled Windows once more, and enabled HD Audio Controller in BIOS. OC is off right now. Problem has not reoccurred. Thanks all.