Games keep freezing and there's a red VGA light on my motherboard

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Electric Boogaloo

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I booted up Star Wars Squadrons for the first time on Friday and my PC froze after about five minutes. I rebooted and tried again, and this time it froze much quicker, so I checked Nvidia and installed the new drivers but didn't bother trying Squadrons again.

Cut to Saturday and my PC freezes again after five minutes of playing PES 2021. This time when I rebooted, there was a red VGA light on my motherboard that went away after a few seconds. I tried PES again but it froze a second time and gave me the red light on startup again. I left it for an hour or so and tried PES again, and this time I was able to play for two hours and exit the application without it ever freezing. I haven't played any more games since, but I tried PES again today and it froze again after about three minutes with the VGA light appearing upon bootup.

I'm guessing this is a problem with my GPU? I have a 2060 and haven't touched or moved my PC in a while. I installed a new PSU about a month ago, but this is the first time I've run into any problems. My PC has also been fine with everything else, it's just freezing whenever I play a game.

The funny thing is I did order a 3080 on "release day", so I probably wouldn't be having this problem if Nvidia actually manufactured any of the damn things! For this reason, I hope it's just my 2060 playing up because at least I'll be replacing it at some point this year, hopefully, maybe, probably not.

Any advice on what this could be and how I might possibly fix it?
 
First. Check and monitor temperature of gpu and cpu while gaming.
Do a gpu benchmark. See if it passes. This is were u start.
Reinstalling clean drivers always a good move.
 
Benass said:
First. Check and monitor temperature of gpu and cpu while gaming.
Do a gpu benchmark. See if it passes. This is were u start.
Reinstalling clean drivers always a good move.
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It froze on PES again with all of my CPU cores around 50c and my GPU at 80c.

Used MSI Kombuster for the benchmark test and it froze again around a minute in at 78c.
 
80c is safe temperature. So you should focus on drivers or power supply.
It looks like it demands more power to do a 100%load test and it's either not getting power or getting power and failing.

I would guess its , either GPU, or PSU or drivers.
Or bad connection from psu to gpu.
Head scrach.
 
Ran some tests and everything seems fine, it just kept freezing when testing the GPU.

I decided to see if the GPU was seated correctly and everything was connected right, just in case the problem ended up being something as simple as that. Checked it all and everything seemed fine so I figured I'd try the GPU in the other PCIe slot to see if this one might be busted. Ran the MSI Kombuster test again and it went for five minutes without issue; before it could only manage about a minute before freezing. Tried both PES and Squadrons after this and was able to play both for a few hours with no issues.

I'm guessing the first PCIe slot is faulty then? At least I'm hoping that's the culprit since then I'll know what the issue is and can just replace the motherboard.
 
Hi there if possible could you try your graphics card in another PC to see if it freezes in there too?
Alternative could you swap out the power supply?
 
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