Games Keep Crashing

[ItsDerekDude]

Thursday April 4th I completed my first build. Upon bootup, the computer wouldn't even turn on, I later found the problem as my friend who wanted to help plugged into two CPU headers. Once I found this and fixed it my computer finally posted and I was able to install Windows 10. Yesterday, I discovered that when I'd try to play some games that my games would just crash. Not the system, just the games. Escape From Tarkov is probably the worst and makes my entire computer unresponsive and I have to spam CTRL-ALT-DEL so I can force a system restart that way. Sometimes I'm able to play a few minutes of my games but then the game will just crash. All of my system hardware is recognized including all 32GB of RAM. The only thing I haven't done is activate Windows. Can anyone possibly give me any insight as to what is going on?

Thank you!

[dantayy]

Try a stress test like AIDA64 to test your hardware. I've have instabilities caused by anything from unstable power supplies to defective GPUs

[Zuccers]

43 minutes ago, ItsDerekDude said:

Thursday April 4th I completed my first build. Upon bootup, the computer wouldn't even turn on, I later found the problem as my friend who wanted to help plugged into two CPU headers. Once I found this and fixed it my computer finally posted and I was able to install Windows 10. Yesterday, I discovered that when I'd try to play some games that my games would just crash. Not the system, just the games. Escape From Tarkov is probably the worst and makes my entire computer unresponsive and I have to spam CTRL-ALT-DEL so I can force a system restart that way. Sometimes I'm able to play a few minutes of my games but then the game will just crash. All of my system hardware is recognized including all 32GB of RAM. The only thing I haven't done is activate Windows. Can anyone possibly give me any insight as to what is going on?

Thank you!

Hey, umm, tough one, have you tried installing the latest drivers i.e. DirectX? And yeah, you should do some testing like cinebench
GLHF

[ItsDerekDude]

I may be wrong but if it were a defective GPU wouldn't the screen artifact and if it were a defective PSU wouldn't the entire system crash? Good idea on the benchmarking software. I will definitely install some.

[ItsDerekDude]

I will also check to be sure I have the latest DirectX driver.

[Zuccers]

Just now, ItsDerekDude said:

I will also check to be sure I have the latest DirectX driver.

Very good, keep us posted  or DM me
Zuccers

[ItsDerekDude]

I definitely will. Thanks for y'all's input.

[ItsDerekDude]

I still encounter this problem after verifying I have all necessary drivers for all of my hardware. Ran stress tests on the CPU with no alarming results; temperatures were fine. What should be my next course of action?

[Zuccers]

Try contacting MS Support, or do a last check on the motherboard connections, maybe reconnecting it would do just fine, or try a different os boot, basically download another version of windows

[Zuccers]

Just now, Zuccers said:

Try contacting MS Support, or do a last check on the motherboard connections, maybe reconnecting it would do just fine, or try a different os boot, basically download another version of windows

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus/

[ItsDerekDude]

I reinstalled the OS on my SSD, downloaded every possible update and driver, and I am still having crashing issues. I am completely lost. 

[imbrock]

1 hour ago, ItsDerekDude said:

I reinstalled the OS on my SSD, downloaded every possible update and driver, and I am still having crashing issues. I am completely lost. 

Have you tried reseating the GPU?

Does it go unresponsive immediately when you start the game or after a few minutes of playing?

[ItsDerekDude]

I have not tried reseating actually and a few minutes after playing. Depends really. But it's not immediate.

[nick name]

Is your RAM kit a 4x8GB or 2x16GB kit?  And have you installed anything like AI Suite?

[ItsDerekDude]

It's a 4x8GB configuration; all 4 DIMM slots are populated. It's a Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WIFI board by the way. I'm not sure I can use AI Suite.