So for quite a while now since I build my new PC I've been crashing on intensive games, honestly I have no idea where to post this so I'll try here. The PC is stock not overclocked and that makes it even more weird.
PC specs:
So here are the temperatures at the crash
The crash is always accompanied by this buzz of the speakers. A constant stuck noise as seen here.
The crashed happens almost exclusively on modern games such as Battlefield 4, Fallout 4, Xcom 2 today, Star Wars Battlefront, GTA 5, Witcher 3, Wolfenstein and so on...
At first I was sure it was a AMD driver problem because DX11 games were acting up on R9 390 but playing BF4 on Mantle had the same effect.
So I can play say Dota 2 or Starcraft 2 or Dawn of War or anything older then 3 years ago really without a problem. But the games above that really tax your system seem to make it freeze.
They're totally random and the only thing that common is that I'm playing intensive games where both the GPU and CPU are taxed.
The problem becomes more apparent when I have things running in the background. I was watching this BBC documentary and Xcom 2 was running in the background alt-tabed. When I have nothing except a game open it does take quite a while longer to freeze but it eventually does. Sometimes it takes hours... sometimes 30 minutes. It seems totally random.
Heres the even viewer.
An interesting thing is I can't press the restart button on the case. It does nothing. I have to hold down the Power button to force a shutdown and then turn it on again. Since I have an SSD this isn't really too much of a problem, but it's a real hassle in Multiplayer games such as BF4 or games like Xcom where you can't save in Ironman at every turn.
Now I've seen that Skylake has quite some problems and a lot of main board manufactures are patching BIOS. I have updated my motherboards BIOS every time but so far there been like 2 months with no updates from ASUS and my problems persists. Everything is up to date from drivers and so on...
Any ideas? I'm currently running Prime95 as per instructions here http://www.techtimes.com/articles/1...-cpu-heres-how-to-check-if-your-pc-has-it.htm
A while back I did both burn in test on the GPU and the CPU and there was literally no problems for like an hour or so... then I got bored of it. Temps were stable.
I have no clue whats happening... I owned PCs since 1995 and I never had a problem as undetectable as this one...
PC specs:
So here are the temperatures at the crash
The crashed happens almost exclusively on modern games such as Battlefield 4, Fallout 4, Xcom 2 today, Star Wars Battlefront, GTA 5, Witcher 3, Wolfenstein and so on...
At first I was sure it was a AMD driver problem because DX11 games were acting up on R9 390 but playing BF4 on Mantle had the same effect.
So I can play say Dota 2 or Starcraft 2 or Dawn of War or anything older then 3 years ago really without a problem. But the games above that really tax your system seem to make it freeze.
They're totally random and the only thing that common is that I'm playing intensive games where both the GPU and CPU are taxed.
The problem becomes more apparent when I have things running in the background. I was watching this BBC documentary and Xcom 2 was running in the background alt-tabed. When I have nothing except a game open it does take quite a while longer to freeze but it eventually does. Sometimes it takes hours... sometimes 30 minutes. It seems totally random.
Heres the even viewer.
An interesting thing is I can't press the restart button on the case. It does nothing. I have to hold down the Power button to force a shutdown and then turn it on again. Since I have an SSD this isn't really too much of a problem, but it's a real hassle in Multiplayer games such as BF4 or games like Xcom where you can't save in Ironman at every turn.
Now I've seen that Skylake has quite some problems and a lot of main board manufactures are patching BIOS. I have updated my motherboards BIOS every time but so far there been like 2 months with no updates from ASUS and my problems persists. Everything is up to date from drivers and so on...
Any ideas? I'm currently running Prime95 as per instructions here http://www.techtimes.com/articles/1...-cpu-heres-how-to-check-if-your-pc-has-it.htm
A while back I did both burn in test on the GPU and the CPU and there was literally no problems for like an hour or so... then I got bored of it. Temps were stable.
I have no clue whats happening... I owned PCs since 1995 and I never had a problem as undetectable as this one...
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