PC Freezes completely while playing games

Browne161 · May 3, 2020

Hi, I've recently had an issue with my pc crashing come back after a few months of being okay. While playing ARK: Survival Evolved, i can play for around 10-20 min before freezing. When it freezes I am unable to Alt+Tab CTRL+ALT+DEL or anything like that. I use 2 monitors and whatever is on the other monitor also freezes. This came back after turning up my graphics settings (was previously using an ini to reduce quality for high fps in pvp). I have made no hardware changes at all. I have had temps on my other monitor when it crashes and temps on cpu and gpu do not exceed 70 degrees celcius. I have updated every driver I could find an update for (none were available). I have checked RAM and my SSD with memtest and chckdsk (cant really remember what they are called). Physically checked seating of gpu, RAM, cpu and every connector and I have not been able to find anything wrong there. There is nothing in event viewer other than error saying pc was not restarted correctly because the only way to get my pc working again is with the reset button. Reliability history gave the same result. I haven't overclocked my CPU or GPU and haven't messed around with anything in the bios. I have tried playing with only 1 monitor, I have tried going down to 60hz from 144hz. I have tried it with no other programs running in the background and still get the same problem. Would appreciate any help anyone could provide before I am forced to go buy a prebuild so I dont have to diagnose the 'one of a kind' pc issues again.

My PC Specs:

>AMD RYZEN 5 2600 (stock cooler)

>ASUS PRIME B350M-A

>Corsair Vengence LPX 16gb 4x4gb

>Gigabyte RTX 2060 WINDFORCE OC 6G

>Samsung 970 Evo 500Gb

>Corsair CX550M 80+ Bronze

appretiate all suggestions

Thanks

**UPDATE**

ARK now crashes with the ini enabled so now i'm completely confused because i was thinking it might have been one of the settings that was disabled but clearly not....

**UPDATE 2**

Tried playing RUST and get the exact same issue but will consistantly happen after aroun 10 to 20min. Realised I had not enabled the XMP profile on the RAM after the 3rd or 4th crash so I tried that and ran into the exact same issue.