My Win10 is contantly crashing while playing games.

[kecstama]

Hi!

 

I'm constantly getting BSODs while playing games.(New World atm.)

It goes away so fast I can't even read the error code, but it's probably WHEA

Eventlog: volmgr 161 error then Kernel-power 41

 

Didn't work: Reinstall, chkdsk, sfc /scannow, memtest, any paging file option

Drivers are up to date.

Did 10-15mins of 100% cpu&gpu stresstest without BSOD. (80C & 60C), voltages were fine.

 

Win 10 pro, 21H1, 19043.1266

 

What can cause such behavior? Is it a faulty RAM or Mobo?

[m9x3mos]

4 hours ago, kecstama said:

Hi!

 

I'm constantly getting BSODs while playing games.(New World atm.)

It goes away so fast I can't even read the error code, but it's probably WHEA

Eventlog: volmgr 161 error then Kernel-power 41

 

Didn't work: Reinstall, chkdsk, sfc /scannow, memtest, any paging file option

Drivers are up to date.

Did 10-15mins of 100% cpu&gpu stresstest without BSOD. (80C & 60C), voltages were fine.

 

Win 10 pro, 21H1, 19043.1266

 

What can cause such behavior? Is it a faulty RAM or Mobo?

Was your reinstall clean from bootable media or the built in option? 

Do you have any overclock applied (xmp included)?

[kecstama]

2 minutes ago, m9x3mos said:

Was your reinstall clean from bootable media or the built in option? 

Do you have any overclock applied (xmp included)?

Clean, from USB image.

 

No OC, not even stock Turbo

[MadGoatHaz]

Specs

[kecstama]

13 minutes ago, MadGoatHaz said:

Specs

I7 7700

H170 pro gaming

16G Kingston @2400

MSI 1070 Sea Hawk

Sabrent Rocket 512G

500W Zalman PSU (Maybe 500W-s aint enough? Then why didn't it crash while both the CPU and GPU were running on 100%?)

[m9x3mos]

6 hours ago, kecstama said:

I7 7700

H170 pro gaming

16G Kingston @2400

MSI 1070 Sea Hawk

Sabrent Rocket 512G

500W Zalman PSU (Maybe 500W-s aint enough? Then why didn't it crash while both the CPU and GPU were running on 100%?)

If memtest extended comes back okay, there are no overclocks,os and games are clean installs that sounds like either motherboard or cpu issue. 

Last thing I can suggest would be resetting the bios and leave the battery out overnight with the machine unplugged and try again. Maybe a new bios battery as well. 

Sometimes that causes weird issues. For a while I could only boot with my ram running non xmp speed (2333). Put in a new bios battery and that fixed the problem. 

[kecstama]

13 hours ago, m9x3mos said:

If memtest extended comes back okay, there are no overclocks,os and games are clean installs that sounds like either motherboard or cpu issue. 

Last thing I can suggest would be resetting the bios and leave the battery out overnight with the machine unplugged and try again. Maybe a new bios battery as well. 

Sometimes that causes weird issues. For a while I could only boot with my ram running non xmp speed (2333). Put in a new bios battery and that fixed the problem. 

 

New Cmos battery, clean Bios xmp turned off, I hope it's my PSU and not my CPU

 

Meanwhile I found out that my 3,3V rail only has ~2,35V

[Incredible_Max]

Just saw your thread, I got a similar problem since a few months. Didn't check again before posting mine

Interestingly I am on AMD instead of Intel...

How did you check your 3.3V rail? Multimeter?

[kecstama]

On 10/5/2021 at 12:15 PM, Incredible_Max said:

Just saw your thread, I got a similar problem since a few months. Didn't check again before posting mine

Interestingly I am on AMD instead of Intel...

How did you check your 3.3V rail? Multimeter?

It was the PSU.

 

The 3,3V rail was fucked, the SSD didn't get enough (or not stable enough) juice for sudden stuff (like alt-tabbing out and opening a browser) so it crashed the system.

 

I bought a used Corsair 600W (B tier, according to psu tier list) and I didn't crash with it yet.

 

If I think about it, my old psu was almost 6 years old, and it was a cheap one even back then.

[Incredible_Max]

Also bought a new PSU now (Corsair RM850x). Didn't get a crash yesterday but that doesn't really say much. Gonna test the situation more over the next few days

 

Great you got your problems solved!