Tiny crack in motherboard

[ry3ks3u_]

A month ago or so, I posted that I was having problems with my computer, with the fact that games such as XCOM2, Rainbow Six Siege and Destiny 2 seem to constantly lock up the whole computer until it resets itself or I press the

handy-dandy reset button on my case.

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PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($109.99 @ Memory Express)
Motherboard: Asus PRIME B450M-A/CSM Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($99.92 @ Amazon Canada)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($99.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($169.75 @ Vuugo)
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.50 @ Vuugo)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB SC GAMING Video Card
Case: Thermaltake H200 TG RGB ATX Mid Tower Case  ($89.99 @ Canada Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair VS 450 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Amazon Canada)
 

I took my build to Memory Express, gave up my dignity and paid them to have a look at it, and a week after, they said that the build was fine, however my 1tb old hard drive which I had used beforehand for storage was throwing CRC errors, and I took it to heart that I needed a new drive. So, out goes the laptop HDD for games and stuff, in comes a Samsung 860 EV0 1TB SDD for OS storage as well as the games mentioned above. I duplicate a 500GB hard drive with Win10 already installed to the 1TB SSD, play games on it, and all is well for a few weeks. Until now.

 

All three games are back to randomly locking up my entire build during use, and I don't think it's a brand new hard drive that will solve my problem. I hadn't noticed it before but there seems to be a small crack in my motherboard, close to the RAM slots, and I've been wondering if this tiny crack could have been the cause of my problems, considering my problems were somehow fixed for a while before all of this by reapplying the CPU and adding more thermal paste, which didn't make sense to me at the time.

Attached is the image of the crack on the motherboard. I highly doubt it could be a compatibility issue with any of my parts, unless it is, in which case, feel free to shout at me wrong.

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Edited February 27, 2020 by ry3ks3u_
added spoiler for image, its a big image taken on a phone, sorry

[MartinKweh]

it could be a factor. Since a small crack like that might expand when certain temperatures affect it . Thus severing the connections. Though i doubt its that since heat should actually make the connections tighter due to thermal expansion. 

[ry3ks3u_]

9 minutes ago, Martin2132 said:

it could be a factor. Since a small crack like that might expand when certain temperatures affect it . Thus severing the connections. Though i doubt its that since heat should actually make the connections tighter due to thermal expansion. 

Yeah I thought that it should have been fine since its far from anything hot so saying that I'm at a bit of a loss is an understatement.

[Bombastinator]

58 minutes ago, ry3ks3u_ said:

A month ago or so, I posted that I was having problems with my computer, with the fact that games such as XCOM2, Rainbow Six Siege and Destiny 2 seem to constantly lock up the whole computer until it resets itself or I press the

handy-dandy reset button on my case.

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PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($109.99 @ Memory Express)
Motherboard: Asus PRIME B450M-A/CSM Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($99.92 @ Amazon Canada)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($99.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($169.75 @ Vuugo)
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.50 @ Vuugo)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB SC GAMING Video Card
Case: Thermaltake H200 TG RGB ATX Mid Tower Case  ($89.99 @ Canada Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair VS 450 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Amazon Canada)
 

I took my build to Memory Express, gave up my dignity and paid them to have a look at it, and a week after, they said that the build was fine, however my 1tb old hard drive which I had used beforehand for storage was throwing CRC errors, and I took it to heart that I needed a new drive. So, out goes the laptop HDD for games and stuff, in comes a Samsung 860 EV0 1TB SDD for OS storage as well as the games mentioned above. I duplicate a 500GB hard drive with Win10 already installed to the 1TB SSD, play games on it, and all is well for a few weeks. Until now.

 

All three games are back to randomly locking up my entire build during use, and I don't think it's a brand new hard drive that will solve my problem. I hadn't noticed it before but there seems to be a small crack in my motherboard, close to the RAM slots, and I've been wondering if this tiny crack could have been the cause of my problems, considering my problems were somehow fixed for a while before all of this by reapplying the CPU and adding more thermal paste, which didn't make sense to me at the time.

Attached is the image of the crack on the motherboard. I highly doubt it could be a compatibility issue with any of my parts, unless it is, in which case, feel free to shout at me wrong.

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I don’t see a crack myself.  I see what looks like a scuff mark near the serial number sticker but that’s all I can find.  May mean I’m just not seeing it though.

[ry3ks3u_]

7 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

I don’t see a crack myself.  I see what looks like a scuff mark near the serial number sticker but that’s all I can find.  May mean I’m just not seeing it though.

Yeah no that's the thing I'm kinda skeptical on whether it would actually be the thing that's affecting my system right now

[ry3ks3u_]

Ok so I recently started messing around with the build to see if I can legitimately fix it before buying new parts again, and I was wondering if the Event Viewer could give me some insight on what happens when it actually locks up. Is there anything in here other than "Kernel-Power" logs that I could use to figure out what is causing my issue? All of these `Kernel-Power` errors get logged immediately after I soft-reset my build after it locks up.

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