Random short-lived crashes.

RottenLemon · September 5, 2019

Hello!

I've had the same PC for about two years now, and since a month or two it's been having a problem. No matter the load (Be it just chatting and watching a video or playing a heavy game) the computer randomly turns both screens black, the audio loops the last half a second or so in a weird, scratchy way and then it resets...sometimes. If I'm unlucky it forces me to restart the whole PC. Sometimes it comes back within seconds but the monitors have no video signal, sometimes it comes back but the video/game/discord/all of the apps have bugged and need to be killed. Sometimes it just turns the computer off after a minute or so.

I clean my PC regularly and a few months before this added three more fans to it and changed the thermal paste, so I don't think it's a temperature problem. I managed to catch both the CPU and GPU spiking to 100% use before the crash happened once, but haven't been able to reproduce it since it's utterly random and sudden.

My specs are:

Windows 10 Pro 64bits
AMD FX 8350 Eight Core
16GB Ram (A single 8GB stick and two 4gb sticks)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX1070
A SSD I use as the "C:" drive which only has windows and a few priority programs on it, and a HDD I use for anything else.
MSI 970 Gaming as the motherboard.
I sadly can't find the PSU model, but I remember it being Corsair, Bronze and around the 800W-850W ballpark.

As far as I know, all drivers are updated.

Thank you for your time!