Weird Crashing/Unresponsiveness on Newly Built PC

[Ehxpert]

So, I built my new computer last week, but I am experiencing strange crashes/stalls? I'd like to preface this first with my first post/bios being super rough. First it would have weird graphical errors with the interface overlapping each other, would reset multiple times. I am not experienced enough to narrow it down, but observationally it looked bad. I updated to the newest bios (took 3 attempts) and it loaded in with like 4 "command line" errors. I did it again and this time it seemed to have loaded into bios. Installed windows to my NVME SSD and then installed all my other HDDs after. 

 

I have crashed twice so far, doing one specific task. Watching twitch streams. So, I'd be watching a Twitch stream for 15-25 minutes and then the stream freezes, I tried to open a new tab and load google, which would just show a loading symbol and then boom freeze. Nothing is clickable but my cursor is able to move. First time it crashed I was able to click around but it would be super glitchy. This led to me force shutting it down and turning it back on like nothing happened. Event log shows nothing. 

 

Uninstalled GPU drivers with DDU and re-installed brand new nvidia drivers, with nothing but physX and the graphics drivers themselves to no avail. All the games I have played so far run fine and the GPU is able to hold 60c on 1440p. CPU temps looks fine to me too. Unsure where to go with this but I think it may be something to do with the board due to the first dealings I had with the bios screwing up on me multiple times. Scared to try reset/update it again. Any stress tests or other things I can do to attempt to narrow down the issue? Cheers.

 

Part List:

 

PSU: Corsair RM750x

CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x

GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 (Waiting for 3070)

RAM: 3200mhz G.Skill Ripjawz 2x16gb

Motherboard: MSI X570 Tomahawk

AIO: Kraken x73

 

Any help or questions are appreciated.

 

EDIT: Nothing turns off in terms of components. All fans are spinning, lights are on, etc.

EDIT2: Ram is also running at 3200mhz (the only part of the bios that is currently customised)

[boggy77]

ram in slots 2 and 4? xmp enabled? any overclocks applied through bios or ryzen master?

[Ehxpert]

 

Just now, boggy77 said:

ram in slots 2 and 4?

Yes

Just now, boggy77 said:

xmp enabled

XMP Profile 1 enabled for 3200mhz

 

1 minute ago, boggy77 said:

any overclocks applied through bios or ryzen master?

Nothing

[keysbeast]

have you  checked to make sure hardware is not bad someware.or that you have the ram maybe set just a lil to high so its giving you some intermitent problems i know with me some times i jump over the very easy things and start going the the harder stuff and all it was bad ssd or ram or another part and the main reason why im bringing this up with all the shuts downs and such i bet more bad componits have gotten out to people 

[Cyracus]

Did you check for driver updates? What's your storage (some drives need drivers)? Ryzen CPUs tend to be stubborn about that first boot, can be multiple self triggered restarts or just hanging for a while, or just weird stuff

[boggy77]

4 minutes ago, Ehxpert said:

 

Yes

XMP Profile 1 enabled for 3200mhz

 

Nothing

it's possible the xmp profile is not stable. try to disable it and see if you still encounter the same issues.

[Ehxpert]

9 minutes ago, keysbeast said:

have you  checked to make sure hardware is not bad someware.or that you have the ram maybe set just a lil to high so its giving you some intermitent problems i know with me some times i jump over the very easy things and start going the the harder stuff and all it was bad ssd or ram or another part and the main reason why im bringing this up with all the shuts downs and such i bet more bad componits have gotten out to people 

Everything looks fine to me mate. Cables are seated, stuff looks like it is where it's supposed to be. My logic is that it would freeze repeatedly while gaming if that was the case  I played CSGO for like 8 hours yesterday. 

 

8 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

Did you check for driver updates? What's your storage (some drives need drivers)? Ryzen CPUs tend to be stubborn about that first boot, can be multiple self triggered restarts or just hanging for a while, or just weird stuff

Updated chipset drivers to newest. Updated graphics drivers. Those are the ones I have installed manually without windows' help. The first boot freaked me out, not going to lie. Restarts after restarts, thought I was getting nowhere...haha

 

EDIT: Storage: 1tb Seagate barracuda 7.2k rpm drive. 500gb Samsung Evo 970 NVMe. 250gb Sandisk SSD.

[Cyracus]

9 minutes ago, Ehxpert said:

500gb Samsung Evo 970 NVMe

Driver? https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools/ Easy to miss, not having it causes many strange issues

[TehDwonz]

10 minutes ago, Ehxpert said:

Everything looks fine to me mate. Cables are seated, stuff looks like it is where it's supposed to be. My logic is that it would freeze repeatedly while gaming if that was the case  I played CSGO for like 8 hours yesterday. 

 

Updated chipset drivers to newest. Updated graphics drivers. Those are the ones I have installed manually without windows' help. The first boot freaked me out, not going to lie. Restarts after restarts, thought I was getting nowhere...haha

 

EDIT: Storage: 1tb Seagate barracuda 7.2k rpm drive. 500gb Samsung Evo 970 NVMe. 250gb Sandisk SSD.

Re-seat everything anyway, even if it "looks" ok. Esp, RAM and GPU. Then try one stick of RAM at a time (if you get a fail, try another slot before moving on to the next RAM stick).

[keysbeast]

12 minutes ago, Ehxpert said:

Everything looks fine to me mate. Cables are seated, stuff looks like it is where it's supposed to be. My logic is that it would freeze repeatedly while gaming if that was the case  I played CSGO for like 8 hours yesterday. 

 

Updated chipset drivers to newest. Updated graphics drivers. Those are the ones I have installed manually without windows' help. The first boot freaked me out, not going to lie. Restarts after restarts, thought I was getting nowhere...haha

 

EDIT: Storage: 1tb Seagate barracuda 7.2k rpm drive. 500gb Samsung Evo 970 NVMe. 250gb Sandisk SSD.

over my years i have had ram just totaly blow my mind at teh faults it can produce seeing as everything goes thru it have a run memtest just to rule it out because i have had one bad cluster before that i run memtest and one time it would show bad then the next time not took that stick out and then never had any more problems mind you that was ocz ddr2 but i have seen it do all different things 

[Ehxpert]

27 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

it's possible the xmp profile is not stable. try to disable it and see if you still encounter the same issues.

So, I disabled the XMP profile and haven't frozen for half an hour. How do I go about troubleshooting/fixing this (I want to run RAM at 3200mhz)?

[boggy77]

Just now, Ehxpert said:

So, I disabled the XMP profile and haven't frozen for half an hour. How do I go about troubleshooting/fixing this (I want to run RAM at 3200mhz)?

you may try to use ryzen dram calculator and manually tune ram timings and voltages.

otherwise, enable xmp and just increase dram voltage a bit (1.375) and soc voltage (1.1) and see if that fixes it. try to run memtest as well

[Ehxpert]

On 9/10/2020 at 3:04 AM, boggy77 said:

you may try to use ryzen dram calculator and manually tune ram timings and voltages.

otherwise, enable xmp and just increase dram voltage a bit (1.375) and soc voltage (1.1) and see if that fixes it. try to run memtest as well

So after the weekend it happened again randomly while watching youtube. Opened task manager while it was happening (barely, cause the interfaces and stuff were being weird and glitching out) and noticed the GPU usage stat on -1%. Unsure now if it could be my GPU. It is a 4 year old 970. Unsure how to proceed for troubleshooting.