PC Occasionally Locks Up Doing Certain Tasks

[iamdarkyoshi]

I've had this issue ever since my skylake build when I upgraded to a PCIE SSD.

Opening, say, display settings, the machine locks up for a bit (sound still keeps playing fine)

 

This never happened when I had an 850 Evo, but it started when I got my Samsung XP941 512GB PCIE SSD. 

 

Since then, I've upgraded to an 8086K platform with an Asus ROG X370i motherboard, and did a fresh install of windows 10 enterprise.

 

Issues still persist.

 

Has anyone seen this before? I'm pretty sure its the SSD, but why exactly?

[DrMacintosh]

Most lock ups are GPU related in my experience. What card are you running? Try rolling back or updating?

[iamdarkyoshi]

41 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Most lock ups are GPU related in my experience. What card are you running? Try rolling back or updating?

GTX 1080Ti.

 

I've tried every driver under the sun, all have issues

[DimasRMDO]

I experienced similar issue but it was the OS (so I switched OS), but I believe yours isn't the case.

My experience from faulty GPU is mostly display issues like artifacts and glitched image and some drivers crashes.

I have a feeling about the storage too.

[ZacoAttaco]

How many monitors are plugged into the GPU and how many are using Intel integrated graphics?

 

When you say 'certain tasks' it's just standard Windows OS tasks right, nothing particularly taxing?

[iamdarkyoshi]

24 minutes ago, ZacoAttaco said:

How many monitors are plugged into the GPU and how many are using Intel integrated graphics?

 

When you say 'certain tasks' it's just standard Windows OS tasks right, nothing particularly taxing?

Right now, four on the dGPU and soon to be an additional two in iGPU.

 

And its seemingly random specific tasks like opening the display settings menu

[ZacoAttaco]

28 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Right now, four on the dGPU and soon to be an additional two in iGPU.

Have you tried...

1. Running only 1 or 2 monitors from the GPU and seeing if the system still locks?
2. Running only 1 monitor from the Intel integrated graphics and seeing if the system still locks up?

If you were to run purely off integrated graphics and the system still locked up we would know it is not a GPU issue.

[Redicat]

First off all why don't you look in Windows Task Manager? second off all download and open GPU-Z/MSI Afterburner and third of all check your eufi bios for any M.2 settings 

 

I doupt it's the SSD but it could i mean if it does some sort of ESD Damage/Water Damage make sure you installed the M.2 SSD into a proper M.2 slot with PCIE 4x in all essence this SSD should last you at least a 100 years if not more (litterly) 

 

Make sure your CPU Cooler is on properly

 

Update Eufi Bios :

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-X370-I-GAMING/HelpDesk_Download/

GPU-Z

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

MSI Afterburner

http://download.msi.com/uti_exe//vga/MSIAfterburnerSetup.zip

 

Hardware Monitor

https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html 

Make sure everything seems okay and if the temperatures are fine or something about the utilization of your drive(s)

 

Reseat the M.2 SSD PCI-E 2.0 into a proper M.2 slot

Reseat the Graphics Cards

Reseat everything PCI-E related

 

Reset the Eufi Bios remove battery use jumpers or bios flush on the back or on the motherboard remove power 

 

If so you restarted your Computer hit whatever the screen shows you to go into the eufi bios and go check a few settings like CPU usage temps voltages spam buttons like F12 Delete Esc and F2