bugs Gaming PC crashes / bugs

[Mike Justin]

Hello,

So i've recently built my gaming rig that is mostly ment for gaming.  I've bought the parts, assembeld the pc and it worked perfectly for a good 4 months.

The PC specs i use are:

Cpu: i7-7700k (not overclocked)

Gpu: Asus Strix GTX 1060 6Gb

Ram: Corsair Dominator Platinum 3200Mhz, 32Gb

Mobo: Gigabyte Aorus Z270X Gaming 7

Cooling: Corsair Hydro H100i V2

Storage: Samsung 960 Evo 500Gb - OS drive and Seagate Barracuda 3Tb

Case: nzxt h440 

OS: Win 10 home

 

After some time spent with the pc i assembeld, my pc started to crash in more demanding titels like gta V, Mass effect andromeda, Ghost recon wildlands, Ark: survival evolved... and some other games.

The problems are: Audio crashes/bugs, Blue screens, pc freezing and game crashing

 

Audio:

I use the normal audio driver (Sound Blaster Recon3Di) provided from the gigabyte site along with all the other drivers for the motherboard. But in some of my gaming sessions (2-5 hours), my audio compleatley crashes. The sound isnt clear and you cant understand anything from it, and the only way for me to fix it is to reboot the pc every time this happens. (It happens over 10 times a week, sometimes even when in normal youtube browsing, the audio breaks).

 

Blue screens:

This problem happens to me at any given time when gaming. Computer crashes and i get a Blue screen form windows that it need to reboot with a sad face and so on, (we all know what it feals like), but i've noticed that it only happens in certain games, mostly in "ark: survival evolved" when the pc is at its loudest state. But i've started to look at some "temps" recently and i've noticed that they arent even that high: cpu 60-75 and gpu at around 70's degrees celcius.

 

Freezes / game crashes:

In most never games like gta, ark, battlefield, mass effect, tom clancy's... games after a longer session (lets say 4+ hours, sometimes it can happen in 20 minutes) The Game Would Compleatly freeze and the only thing i can do is reboot the system. I can't do Alt+f4, ctrl+alt+del or any of that stuff, beacoust it compleatly freezes. I've found this bug happening mostly in "tom clancys: ghost recon wildlands", and some other games from ubisoft.

But some lower end titels like for example cs:go i've left the game running for almoust 2 days straight multiple times and it never crashed.

I 1st thought it was the graphics card, but then i talked to some tech people at stores, repair shops about this problem, and 90% of the anwsers i got back is that the Hard drive is the problem for this issue. I've contected seagate, they were pretty cool and they swaped my drive for a new one, beacouse they did find something wrong with it, but the issue keept repeating itself.

I've also got anwsers to lower the game settings, so i tryed that, and it didnt help. (I usualy set my games so i maintain a stable 60-70+ fps, doesen't matter what game it is).

 

Bug:

Sometimes when i boot into windows, i've noticed that the HDD doesn't show up at the "my pc" tab, and since all my games are all on it, every time this happens, i need to reboot my pc a few times. If that doesent help, i switch the sata port on my motherboard and then it usualy always shows up. But the bigger problem is that EVERY single time this happens... even if all the data is there... i have to format the drive, beacouse the games dont want to run from the drive. even if steam, origin, Uplay reccognises the games, (i can choose any option, repair or anything else in like, steam to the game, and when it finishes and says it all gucci and good to go, i run them game, and then it says the game file cant be found or it doesent exsist.) So i HAVE TO / AM FORCED to format my drive and reinstall everything, which is 600+ Gb of game every time this happens. (it happens once a month or less. (It happend 4 times since january)

 

Question:

Does anyone know what i should do next, so i could resolve all these issues ? (i already decided to get a diffrent motherboard and give Asus a try)

Could this be a software problem ? Btw, i tryed reinstalling my OS once <- didnt help.

Should i simply start getting a new pc from scratch if this cant be resolved (ive already spent over 300€ just for the repairs that were useless, which is 1/5th of the price of the pc itself).

 

This is probubly my last attempt trying to fix this, soo... yeah..

Thank you for every method of help anyone would provide me trying. I will try to do every method when ill have the time for it.

Thanks! 

 

[bover21]

Well those are weird issues.

What is the error message do you get with the bluescreen? That could be of great help in trying to figure out what it is.

 

I’ve been sitting for a while thinking about what it might be. It could be a recent windows update, I have personally had a lot of issues upgrading from 1709 to 1803. I also couldn’t find your motherboard as windows 10 compatible for some reason. Pretty sure they just forgot to add it as the entire list doesn’t have any Z270 chipset, list HERE. Anyway if you got them after upgrading windows it might be worth a shot downgrading to an older version, problem with that is that you have to reinstall everything that is on your boot drive. It’s the reason I haven’t downgraded because the issues I have with windows aren’t as annoying as having to reinstall everything again (yet).

 

What I did notice about the games you described having problems with is that they all use a version of DirectX, while CS:GO uses OpenGL. So based on this I would remove the current display drivers with DDU and reinstall the drivers again. Ohh no I feel like microsoft support now.

 

You could also try to use the "System File Checker" it fixes errors in your window version, it probably wouldn't fix your issues but it's worth a shot.Here is a link to an article by microsoft on how to do it https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929833/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system. 

 

This is the best I could come up with. Maybe someone else has some better ideas. Try and write down the error code with your bluescreen that gives you a better idea of what causes the error to begin with.

 

 

DDU - https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html