PC Crashing During Gaming - Help!

Molesy79 · 11 Dec 2015 at 17:58

Hi All,

Wondering if you guys can assist? I recently built a PC for a friend and its occasionally freezing whilst playing games - its completely freezes and you get a screeching noise over the headphones and needs a force restart.

It happens on various games, today he played for 3 hours on Skyrim with no issue and then it did it twice in 10 mins, yesterday happened on Dying light after 15 mins then fine for a couple hours. Nothing overclocked as he isn't the best with PC's.

Up to date on drivers from the MSI site and Nvidia - Running Windows 10 x64

Spec's below - anyone see this before or suggest what to do?

Intel 6600 (non-k)
MSI Z170A Gaming Pro
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB
Gigabyte 960 G1 Gaming
Corsair Builder Series CXM 600W

I stress tested the PC before I gave to him with Heaven and Prime 95/Aida for a good few hours - temps were all great as well.

Any help will be greatly appreciated, beer tokens would be given if i can!

Thanks

Molesy

snips86x · 11 Dec 2015 at 18:09

Have you setup BSOD logging? It could be that the PC is having a hissy fix but since no logging is enabled its not giving you the BSOD.

Molesy79 · 11 Dec 2015 at 19:11

didnt think of that as the PC isnt BSOD, surely it wouldnt log anything?

snips86x · 11 Dec 2015 at 19:12

Molesy79 said:
didnt think of that as the PC isnt BSOD, surely it wouldnt log anything?

Depends how its been configured. If the logging isn't setup, you'll get various behaviours when it crashes.

Setup the mini dump file and see what it returns.

Molesy79 · 11 Dec 2015 at 20:32

Ok will check logs and set logging for bsod, pain is pc is 60 miles away - any other suggestions in the mean time?

oache4u · 13 Dec 2015 at 01:11

First try the ram memory ,play with 4 GB on it,add another 4 Gb same thing untill you have 16 Gb,if is not the ram test the video card in another pc for 2-5h,the last option that you have is put a new paste on the cpu,but before doing this win 10 is known for freezing with some pc & laptop ,additional things to do check hdd make sure you dont have any loose wired in your case,or sometimes BEST case is reassembly the pc make the problem go away

Nix · 13 Dec 2015 at 05:50

Give memtest a go and see if anything shows up.

http://www.memtest86.com/

Molesy79 · 13 Dec 2015 at 10:38

Cheers guys i'll ask him to complete a mem test and try gaming with just 8gb at a time. I'll let you know the results

D1craig · 13 Dec 2015 at 11:20

I keep getting crashes on my pc. They don't completely freeze my pc just crash for a few seconds. It has been happening for a while with all the newer nvidia drivers. Maybe it's a worse version of what I am getting? You vpuld try finding an older nvidia driver but like you say it can be fine for upto 5 hours before it crashes.

Idleman · 14 Dec 2015 at 06:43

Check in your Event Viewer for the time and date it last happened and see what is recorded. It may hint towards the problem.

joedeath332 · 14 Dec 2015 at 09:01

Nix said:
Give memtest a go and see if anything shows up.

http://www.memtest86.com/

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