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Eskidoo
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Hi everyone I am having a serious issue with my pc. My pc video drivers crash whenever I try to play a game and sometimes just when I try to open firefox or discord. When this happens my corsair and steelseries apps crash too but I can still hear discord or whatever video is playing in the background. Sometimes I am able to just shut off the pc and turn it back on and it works again and i have to reinstall my graphics drivers. Others I have to completely reinstall windows because it corrupts the install. Im at my wits end here and I cant afford to buy parts to test new ones to see if they help. Im hoping someone here may have an answer. I've reached out to windows, amd, and seasonic but no help.

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2 hours ago, esCaPade1 said:

I think you may need to list your main hardware so we can get an idea if the PSU is up to the task.

Ryzen 7 5800x3d 

Radeon 7900xt

360mm corsair aio

32 gb gskill tridentz ram

Msi b550 tomahawk mobo

850w seasonic focus gold

 

I would also like to add that this started in early November then out of nowhere I was able to play Arc raiders for a few days and then it started happening again. No hardware has changed in that time.

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3 hours ago, Eskidoo said:

Hi everyone I am having a serious issue with my pc. My pc video drivers crash whenever I try to play a game and sometimes just when I try to open firefox or discord. When this happens my corsair and steelseries apps crash too but I can still hear discord or whatever video is playing in the background. Sometimes I am able to just shut off the pc and turn it back on and it works again and i have to reinstall my graphics drivers. Others I have to completely reinstall windows because it corrupts the install. Im at my wits end here and I cant afford to buy parts to test new ones to see if they help. Im hoping someone here may have an answer. I've reached out to windows, amd, and seasonic but no help.

Ryzen 7 5800x3d 

 

Radeon 7900xt

 

360mm corsair aio

 

32 gb gskill tridentz ram

 

Msi b550 tomahawk mobo

 

850w seasonic focus gold

 

 

I would also like to add that this started in early November then out of nowhere I was able to play Arc raiders for a few days and then it started happening again. No hardware has changed in that time.

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3 hours ago, ItTakes2ToMango said:

Sounds like you could possibly be overheating. Have you check your temps? 

Genuine question because im unsure. Would overheating cause my windows install to break and force me to redownload it? Also would it cause my drivers to be deleted as well the times that windows doesnt need to be redownloaded?

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2 hours ago, Jinchu said:

Bad power supply? Bad memory? of course like others said above the temps are the first suspect.

I've tried to check the temps but before it crashes my drivers I dont see any spikes. Would overheating and the subsequent crash cause my windows to be corrupted and the times my windows comes back on could it cause my graphics drivers to be gone?

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12 minutes ago, Eskidoo said:

I've tried to check the temps but before it crashes my drivers I dont see any spikes. Would overheating and the subsequent crash cause my windows to be corrupted and the times my windows comes back on could it cause my graphics drivers to be gone?

I think bad RAM could potentially cause some of that. It'd likely be a different issue each time.

 

Use something like Ventoy or Rufus to put Memtest86 on a USB stick and boot from it (mashing F10 before POST usually lets you choose the boot device) and let a test run through at least 2x. This will take quite a while.

 

If there are any errors whatsoever, replace the RAM. You can test one stick at a time, but you'd likely want to replace both so the replacements work together, so it's kinda pointless.

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48 minutes ago, esCaPade1 said:

I think bad RAM could potentially cause some of that. It'd likely be a different issue each time.

 

Use something like Ventoy or Rufus to put Memtest86 on a USB stick and boot from it (mashing F10 before POST usually lets you choose the boot device) and let a test run through at least 2x. This will take quite a while.

 

If there are any errors whatsoever, replace the RAM. You can test one stick at a time, but you'd likely want to replace both so the replacements work together, so it's kinda pointless.

Ill have to run memtest tonight and see. Ive been hoping its not my RAM because its so expensive but I have gskill so I believe its a lifetime warranty. Also, it does crash after random things like opening a link, opening a program, a game or just existing so that would make sense.

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7 hours ago, esCaPade1 said:

I think bad RAM could potentially cause some of that. It'd likely be a different issue each time.

 

Use something like Ventoy or Rufus to put Memtest86 on a USB stick and boot from it (mashing F10 before POST usually lets you choose the boot device) and let a test run through at least 2x. This will take quite a while.

 

If there are any errors whatsoever, replace the RAM. You can test one stick at a time, but you'd likely want to replace both so the replacements work together, so it's kinda pointless.

I ran memtest86 and there were no errors. My cpu and ram temps werent high during it either i think my cpu hit 60 during the hammer test and the ram was at 32 the entire time. Im at a lose here.

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Well, you can discount the RAM and that helps.

I am now wondering if this is hardware or software in nature.

One way of finding out would be to stick a Linux installation on a USB stick and see if the same behaviour happens in Linux - if it does, then you know the issue is hardware in nature.

If it turns out not to be, I'd go for a fresh install of Windows.

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13 hours ago, Eskidoo said:

Genuine question because im unsure. Would overheating cause my windows install to break and force me to redownload it? Also would it cause my drivers to be deleted as well the times that windows doesnt need to be redownloaded?

Overheating at the wrong time can break just about anything - but it usually wouldn't break much since the computer tends to know it is getting too hot and shuts down before anything bad happens.

 

5 hours ago, Eskidoo said:

I ran memtest86 and there were no errors. My cpu and ram temps werent high during it either i think my cpu hit 60 during the hammer test and the ram was at 32 the entire time. Im at a lose here.

I'm not - we still have like 3 or 4 things to try before we really run out of ideas

 

Have you tried just benchmarking the GPU? Try out furmark and see if you run into the same issues while running that 

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On 12/11/2025 at 7:28 AM, ItTakes2ToMango said:

Overheating at the wrong time can break just about anything - but it usually wouldn't break much since the computer tends to know it is getting too hot and shuts down before anything bad happens.

 

I'm not - we still have like 3 or 4 things to try before we really run out of ideas

 

Have you tried just benchmarking the GPU? Try out furmark and see if you run into the same issues while running that 

I cant really do anything everytime I reset it and try to download something it just crashes so I cant even attempt a gpu benchmark. When it first started happening I was able to do somethings but it has gotten worse to the point where I cant even download and install anything anymore.

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On 12/11/2025 at 7:28 AM, ItTakes2ToMango said:

Overheating at the wrong time can break just about anything - but it usually wouldn't break much since the computer tends to know it is getting too hot and shuts down before anything bad happens.

 

I'm not - we still have like 3 or 4 things to try before we really run out of ideas

 

Have you tried just benchmarking the GPU? Try out furmark and see if you run into the same issues while running that 

I think i may have found at least one of the problems if not the main problem.

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1 hour ago, esCaPade1 said:

Wow. I think so too. Looks like you caught it just in time!

FYI, that will have been due to an improper connection between the plug and the socket.

I got lucky because I didn't even think to check it. I was going to just try a new one because I figured one of the pins may be loose in the housing but this was so much worse.

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28 minutes ago, Eskidoo said:

I got lucky because I didn't even think to check it. I was going to just try a new one because I figured one of the pins may be loose in the housing but this was so much worse.

Do you think the damages was caused by you or anything you did to the cable while working on it?
If not, you could try to go through and RMA with Seasonic to get a PSU replacement.

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13 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

Do you think the damages was caused by you or anything you did to the cable while working on it?
If not, you could try to go through and RMA with Seasonic to get a PSU replacement.

No I dont see how it could. I haven't unplugged any of those wires since I put the psu in. You think there is any chance that damaged my gpu? Theres no scorching or anything on my gpus end.

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