PC Hard locks during gaming

[Goocheymane]

Lately my PC has been hard locking during games. Issues starting occurring after I bought my GTX 1080, it started as a "Nvlddmkm Error (Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered)" error which simply caused the game to crash. After trying to fix that I decided I should just do a clean install of windows 10, and now after the clean install, instead of the game simply crashing my whole computer hard locks then restarts.

 

Things I have done.

• bought a new power supply (EVGA Supernova 850)
• bought a UPS to address possible faulty power in the house
• Used a different PCI slot
• Clean uninstall/reinstall of drivers with DDU
• Ran a Memtest to check for ram issues
• Uninstalled Msi afterburner/Got rid of overclocks
• Under clocked my card by 200 on core and memory (this seemed to have the largest effect yielding no crashes for a month)
• Have done various checks for issues with my Hard drive.
• Updated Bios

Specs are

Cpu: i7 4790k

Gpu: MSI Gtx 1080 Sea Hawk

Psu: EVGA Supernova 850 Gold

Mobo: MSI Z97 Gaming 5

Ram: 16gigs Gskill Tridentx 1600

HDD (Storage): WD Black 2tb

SSD (Boot): Samsung 850 Evo 500gig

 

Any help would be so greatly appreciated this issue has been a thorn in my side for the longest time and I just cant seem to figure it out. At this point i'm almost just thinking its a bad GPU but I only want to RMA as an absolute last resort.

 

[Shimejii]

What Game is it? Several games do not like factory overclocks and tend to crash (Ark: survival evovled, Overwatch, WOW, and theres more). Some are lucky where their games are fine and arent affected with overclocks or factory overclocks, but some games dont like it at all as you found out when you underclocked.

[MrMarriarty]

what does your event log say?

[unknownmiscreant]

31 minutes ago, Goocheymane said:

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Try reinstall audio drivers. I had a somewhat similar issue with a 1070. There was some config fault with direct x, as VLC and chrome played audio, but games didn't and would crash after 5 mins. Reinstalling the audio drivers sorted it. If you have a different GPU to try, or a different PC to try the GPU in, (Anything that has a PCIe slot will work) that would be a good idea.

[Goocheymane]

It has happened on a number of games mostly Ghost Recon Wildlands, Black Desert Online, Dark Souls 3 just about any game that is both taxing on the cpu and gpu.

As for the event log i have never seen these processor power errors before but this just happened after the most recent crash.

EDIT: it appears i had the Auto OC option checked in my bios and i'm no longer getting these processor power errors.

Edited August 14, 2017 by Goocheymane

[Goocheymane]

4 minutes ago, unknownmiscreant said:

If you have a different GPU to try, or a different PC to try the GPU in, (Anything that has a PCIe slot will work) that would be a good idea.

I had a friend borrow the GPU and he played games no problem with a 150mhz OC on core and 300mhz on memory. Albeit he does not tend to play games for extended periods of time.

[unknownmiscreant]

23 minutes ago, Goocheymane said:

I had a friend borrow the GPU and he played games no problem with a 150mhz OC on core and 300mhz on memory. Albeit he does not tend to play games for extended periods of time.

Okay. I would say the GPU is fine then.

 

Try update your bios and all hardware drivers from the manufacturers website.

 

[Goocheymane]

36 minutes ago, unknownmiscreant said:

Try update your bios and all hardware drivers from the manufacturers website.

 

Bios is up to date forgot to put that in the original post my bad. As are the GPU drivers.

[unknownmiscreant]

12 hours ago, Goocheymane said:

Bios is up to date forgot to put that in the original post my bad. As are the GPU drivers.

Yeah, thats all right. I know its pretty basic, but its good to be sure.