Unknown Gaming Issue

[GamGamist]

Hello! I have an issue with my first PC I built. I've had it for about a year now, it's been alright. I'll admit my one mess up through the build quite awhile ago, which ended up being that I believe I bent a CPU socket pin. It's just one, and I couldn't exactly tell if it was broken 100%, but it was my first PC build. I didn't attempt repairs, I'd be nervous to do it now. But despite being worried half the build, it turned on and worked 100%. No known issues, and the issue I have is new, not always being here.

So when I load levels of a game, or a game in general, my PC will blackscreen shut down. As if the power switch was just flipped. It'll restart automatically though, and sometimes this will cause the restart to take a really long time for what the SSD normally has it startup when it comes to time.

Important things I notice is that this doesn't happen when a game is running. It can keep going up to its max in FPS, and wont do this. Even in minecraft where FPS limits aren't really a thing, it'll just go as high as it can. I can't get it to crash in things like this. But I have an Oculus Rift. It crashes I'd say 1/3 of the time that the Oculus interface loads up within the Oculus. It hasn't been doing it in games for the Oculus, but I got Duck Season, and it has crashed almost every time on beginning a level once I got to around level 6.

This also crashes on cutscenes a lot on Nier: Automata, and I gave up playing it basically. It's what had me discover this issue, and it's been here for a month I'd say.

This also crashes the Naruto: Storm titles upon usually loading a fight, but it's rare. It's just, I can tell it comes from the same issue. The Oculus interface loading up is the most consistent with this crashing.

Also, I don't think many would assume this, but it's not the VR gear I don't think. I only have 1 HDMI port on my PC with this GPU, but I use dual monitors. I gotta unplug my 2nd monitor hooked up to HDMI to use the Oculus, so yea.

I'm not the most techy, but I'm 17, so I'll try my best to try what I can! Thank you for reading and replying if you do!

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[Mr.Meerkat]

Check whether anything is overheating or not.

Try running with only one 'set' of RAM (i.e. 2 sticks)

Download crystaldiskinfo (or any other software that reports the smart readings) and see if your drive is healthy/okay or not. 

[GamGamist]

I think I fixed it after I switched my GPU's PCI slot. Idk why that would be the case, but I tried seeing if Ram was the issue and it just wasn't unless its not just 1 stick, but tried that PCI slot switcharoo and now I appear to be running swell. Only like an hour test, so I'll continue and see, but yea! If anyone has a similar issue, PCI slot was my issue!

[GamGamist]

Alright, this issue has came back up and only stopped out of luck... I have found out more about the issue, however!

I have tested each memory stick individually, tried other PCI slots, it does the same. Every time a scene appears to be loading in, and I guarantee when it's loading many elements at once, it crashes. A good example of this is in VR games. When the game starts up, and everything is black with a frozen Oculus loading symbol in the headset (meaning the game is loading the entire game and whatnot, since it doesn't start in a menu for a game like Duck Season and simply generates a VR scenario as fast as it can) it would only crash if I flailed my arms around and gave what I assume would be my GPU more to do. I assume the issue is when the GPU has to track all those movements that just occurred and catch up with it, overloading it and boom, crash. What I am pointing out is it only happens when I essentially 'overload' it. It'll have an almost 100% success rate in that specific game if I just stand completely still as it loads in.

Also, I've upgraded my GPU to a GTX 1070, specifically the MSI Armored edition in white that I got a good deal on on Ebay. The same thing still occurs, so it's officially not the GPU.

Thanks for reading!