PC completely freezing while playing games

BurrisYT

BurrisYT

BurrisYT

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Right so I have been having this ongoing problem for a couple months now where I'll boot up a game play from 20 minutes to a couple hours and then I run into a complete deadlock freeze everything just stops the screen stays on the still image from where it was when it freezes but mouse and keyboard unresponsive forcing me to hold down the power button to force a shutdown. I seem to be able to pay a little longer when i run games in window instead of full screen, but still comes to a deadlock freeze just a little more gaming before so.

I have ran MemTest and came back with 0 errors
Scanned SSD and HDD's and all come back looking healthy
I only have this one GPU so cant really swap to check it but have checked temps while playing high performance games and seems to run around 65 degrees at most
Same with the CPU only have the one to fit the motherboard but temps seem to get around 45 at the most when again high performance CPU based games
Then my PSU is a Corsair 650w and i only have a spare 450w PSU which I dont believe will be powerful enough to really check if thats the problem

So if anyone can help just let me know what spec program you need a screenshot from and so on.

My Computer Specs
OS - Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU - Intel Core i5 6600k @ 3.50GHz
RAM - 2x 8GB Corsiar Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400MHz
Motherboard - Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI
GPU - Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 (MSI)
SSD - 250GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO
HDD 1 - 1TB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-00BN5AO
HDD 2 - 500GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD142

Thank you in advance.
 
you could check the power cables into your GPU are plugged in properly, I had this a while ago when one of my plugs wasn't fully in
 
Not running shadowplay are you?

Sounds more like the drive is maxing out if you can check that. Had a similar problem when large amounts were writing to the drive it would freeze. If the OS is installed on the SSD might be the cause - not necessarily a drive fault but something periodically causing it so check drive utilisation when it freezes for spikes:
 
Sounds remarkably similar to mine. Checking bluescreenview shows dxgkrnl.sys as the cause provided the system manages an autoreboot. Event viewer may well show video TDR events just prior to the freeze.

The cause appears to be a combination of windows 10 and the nvidia gpu. Search for windows 10 TDR fix. I've tried practically every supposed solution and nothing has worked. (PSU swap, underclocking, ram swap, pcie slot swap, pcie gen mode changes, full ddu driver refresh, tdr delay registry tweaks and so on) My 780 is watercooled and doesn't exceed 42 on full load even after a few hours. It is quite random as to how long it'll go before it locks up too. I've seen nearly two weeks between them and sometimes had 5 in a day which makes it hard to tell if it's fixed. Back on windows 7 it was 100% reliable. Essentially I'm waiting for vega to come out and moving back to amd.
 
right guys still havent found the source of the problem but monitored my cpu and memory usage while playing a game and the cpu was running at around 50% but at times would reach 100% the memory would also hit around 70% on times
 
BurrisYT said:
right guys still havent found the source of the problem but monitored my cpu and memory usage while playing a game and the cpu was running at around 50% but at times would reach 100% the memory would also hit around 70% on times
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Did you try the 450W PSU? I am having similar problems and have eliminated everything except the PSU, motherboard and CPU (5820k).

I have found that running 3dmark Timespy test 2 on a loop (paid version) is a good way to bring out the problem quickly. Also, have you tried running a stability test like Aida64?

Could you try disabling C-states in the BIOS and test again? This has got rid of the freezing for me and could point towards a faulty CPU or motherboard. Also, disable any overclocking or XMP profiles and run RAM at default. Now I am getting a random BSOD 119 internal video scheduler error. However, I can now run 8 hours of timespy without freezing (this testing was at stock by the way).
 
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ltron said:
Did you try the 450W PSU? I am having similar problems and have eliminated everything except the PSU, motherboard and CPU (5820k).

I have found that running 3dmark Timespy test 2 on a loop (paid version) is a good way to bring out the problem quickly. Also, have you tried running a stability test like Aida64?

Could you try disabling C-states in the BIOS and test again? This has got rid of the freezing for me and could point towards a faulty CPU or motherboard. Also, disable any overclocking or XMP profiles and run RAM at default. Now I am getting a random BSOD 119 internal video scheduler error. However, I can now run 8 hours of timespy without freezing (this testing was at stock by the way).
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I haven't got around to trying the PSU just yet been a little busy but will do some tests tomorrow i got a feeling its graphics card related or Ram. I also got a picture to upload here of an error i got during a crash that only shows up sometimes most of the time it just freezes showing no error
 
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