PCIE WHEA errors when opening MSI Afterburner [also CPUZ, GPUZ, 3DMARK, but not HWINFO64]

[Mark Kaine]

This is a really weird one, I don't know what's going on anymore,  it's only happening since I "offset voltage overclocked " my CPU,  but the weird part is it also happens now without the OC, I'm sure it's somehow connected to my overclocking though, I just really don't understand why it *only* happens when opening / using certain programs... I can play games for hours and no "WHEA" errors at all...

 

Also please don't panic,  those are correctable hardware errors,  so the PC isn't crashing and it's also not noticeable (I think).

 

What's weird though,  I've lost around 500 + points in Firestrike,  also without the CPU voltage offset override (I believe that's the correct technical term.. )

 

 

Any ideas what's causing this,  especially thousands of errors just for opening Afterburner doesn't really make (any) sense to me? 

 

 

 

 

[Bombastinator]

Sounds like a badly done overclock to me.  I know little about AMD overclocking though.

[Mark Kaine]

1 hour ago, Bombastinator said:

Sounds like a badly done overclock to me.  I know little about AMD overclocking though.

I mean I would probably say that too but it also happens when I reset BIOS...

 

Also I see I forgot mentioning this always happens,  but in fact the order it happens changed. 

 

Previously it was always right after boot,  so no afterburner etc loaded (it's not set to start automatically)

 

But *now* it doesn't happen on boot... there are 0 errors... but every time I open afterburner there's like 1000  errors immediately...which can accumulate a lot more than usually obviously,  also I've never noticed other programs like CPUZ etc would cause these errors as well... although I don't really use those often, generally. 

 

Point is the order it happens changed, which is just weird , and even after BIOS reset. 

 

I would care less if not my firestrike score would be lower also... even if I overclock the gpu I'm always missing around 500 points, and that original score is without gpu OC. 

 

Maybe the mobo is bugging out or something,  I do think it's quite curious though. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bombastinator]

2 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

I mean I would probably say that too but it also happens when I reset BIOS...

 

Also I see I forgot mentioning this always happens,  but in fact the order it happens changed. 

 

Previously it was always right after boot,  so no afterburner etc loaded (it's not set to start automatically)

 

But *now* it doesn't happen on boot... there are 0 errors... but every time I open afterburner there's like 1000  errors immediately...which can accumulate a lot more than usually obviously,  also I've never noticed other programs like CPUZ etc would cause these errors as well... although I don't really use those often, generally. 

 

Point is the order it happens changed, which is just weird , and even after BIOS reset. 

 

I would care less if not my firestrike score would be lower also... even if I overclock the gpu I'm always missing around 500 points, and that original score is without gpu OC. 

 

Maybe the mobo is bugging out or something,  I do think it's quite curious though. 

 

 

 

 

 

I was thinking mostly about the firestrike score being lower after the overclock than before it.

[Mark Kaine]

2 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

I was thinking mostly about the firestrike score being lower after the overclock than before it.

Right,  but that also happens without the overclock... it's really odd.

 

 

Actually... it could be my hard drive also... it's behaving pretty weird/ sluggish (not the os drive but secondary drives can slow a system down also...)  I'm in the process of replacing it so hopefully that fixes it... probably not the whea errors but as long I have the firestrike scores back and system doesn't crash those errors shouldn't bother me much...

 

 

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, Mark Kaine said:

Right,  but that also happens without the overclock... it's really odd.

 

 

Actually... it could be my hard drive also... it's behaving pretty weird/ sluggish (not the os drive but secondary drives can slow a system down also...)  I'm in the process of replacing it so hopefully that fixes it... probably not the whea errors but as long I have the firestrike scores back and system doesn't crash those errors shouldn't bother me much...

 

 

Like a mechanical spiny HDD?  There are tests for those.

[Mark Kaine]

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

Like a mechanical spiny HDD?  There are tests for those.

I don't need a test to know something is wrong with it though,  I have ears. 

 

[Mark Kaine]

BIOS update fixed it!

 

Which wasnt as easy as you'd think due to MSI's *latest* non beta BIOS being faulty (no Ryzen3000 support lol)

 

Anyways there was also a bug in all older BIOS apparently  that would show the motherboard is pcie4, even though it isnt , it only supports pcie3, so i think thats what probably caused all these whea / pcie errors.

 

Now i get none, doesn't matter if i use Afterburner or whatever, no more pcie errors!

 

Otherwise that latest "beta" BIOS seems quite stable, I can now also, after only 3 years of waiting, control the fans from BIOS btw!

 

 

Motherboard is MSI B350M Mortar, if anyone has similar errors (probably not a very popular board nowadays lol)