Random Crashes and Booting Problems.

TicTacFloof · December 1, 2020

Hi There,

So recently I have been having this weird random issue with my pc. If I was to be using it heavily (eg. gaming or doing video editing) the pc would crash after around 20 minutes. The pc would freeze for a few minutes (although I am still able to hear audio and move the mouse) then go to the blue screen of death. However, upon restart, it will just sit at the BIOS splash screen with the post code A2. The only way I am able to get past this is to unplug every USB device connected and restart the pc.

This time the problem is a lot worse. I will boot up windows and if I do anything like open up file explorer or chrome, it will do the exact problem as mentioned above.

I have also installed Linux just to see if this is an issue with windows, but Linux will complete lock up then after a few minutes continue to work again.

This looks like a motherboard/CPU error however I am not too sure with that.

What would you recommend to do to fix this error ?

Specs:

Motherboard: ROG Crosshair VI Extreme

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 2060 Super

PSU: Corsair RM 650X

RAM: 2x Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR4

SSD: Crucial MX500 250GB

OS: Windows 10 (October 2020 update) and Linux KDE Neon