I don't recall when my issue started exactly, I don't remember having any issue in 2015 looking at the games I played that year, in 2016 I remember having crashes playing Deus Ex: MD but it went away for ages and a little after the launch of Overwatch it came back. The last few days it's been really bad locking up 5 times before it settled and let me play Destiny 2.
So the crashes, 95% of the time it's a hard crash with the sound dragging bzbzbzbzbzbzbzbzzbzbzbzbzb, hard reset required. Sometimes the screen freezes and mouse and keyboard won't work but I can still communicate on voice comms, hard reset required again. And lastly, this type of crash is like the super slo-mo replay Ace Ventura does, sounds getting dragged and crackly/poppy, which eventually leads into the same crash as I explained first.
My hardware:
i7 930 at stock
GTX 780 at stock
GB x58-UD3R mobo
6Gb Corsair ram
3x SSD. 1 dedicated for Windows, 1 for games and the other one I'll explain in a bit.
2x HDD
Sound Blaster Z
EVGA SuperNova G2 750W
What I've done: When I tried trouble shooting this myself last year I ran;
Prime95 - No errors
Memtest86 - No errors
Furmark - No errors
Heaven 4.0 - Some crashes just after it started benchmarking.
Took my PSU back to the shop where they tested it and found no errors.
Bought a 3rd SSD to replace the OS SSD because it was an OCZ Agility3 which my brother replaced. I needed a quick swap for my dead OCZ Vertex 4. Being suspicious at the SSD being an issue I bought a replacement.
Used multiple temperature monitor software and all temps were in order.
What I did today: After losing my rag after loading Destiny 2 for the 5th time and my PC freezing a few minutes after loading I decided it's time I reinstall Windows, I never did a clean install after Windows 10 upgrade in 2015 and yes that also means that SSD I bought ages earlier to replace the OCZ Agility 3 sat connected in my case all that time empty.
So a clean install of Windows 10 on a never used SSD, with my fingers I loaded Destiny 2 all looked fine until I went to travel to EDZ and it was crash type 2, everything frozen and no inputs but I could still talk to my mate on TeamSpeak3. Hard reset, reloaded the game and played for about 2 hours no problem then came here to write this post.
Behaviour of the crashes: It's not all game related, sometimes I can just be watching Youtube and click to another video and freeze. Sometimes when booting I wouldn't even make it to Windows. It's like a funny 5 minutes then the PC would be fine for the duration of use which is why I've not chased the issue and planned up upgrading the problem away, which I've planned on for 3 years and was gunna go with Coffee-Lake but then price and stock issues. The last few days the crashing has been atypical and will crash after every game load. So where it's sometimes 5 minutes of hassle, atm it's been 5 mins of hassle then problem free gaming but then I take a break for an hour and reloading Destiny 2 causes the freezing crash. Oh and I also had a crash today when I plugged IN a USB stick to copy some files on for Windows reinstalling prep.
Tomorrow I'll open my PC and have a look and take out the OCZ Agility 3, and whatever comes to mind as I'm looking.
Last thing to mention is that as I've had the problem for quite some time I've used multiple drivers for my GPU and all Windows updates have been installed.
So the crashes, 95% of the time it's a hard crash with the sound dragging bzbzbzbzbzbzbzbzzbzbzbzbzb, hard reset required. Sometimes the screen freezes and mouse and keyboard won't work but I can still communicate on voice comms, hard reset required again. And lastly, this type of crash is like the super slo-mo replay Ace Ventura does, sounds getting dragged and crackly/poppy, which eventually leads into the same crash as I explained first.
My hardware:
i7 930 at stock
GTX 780 at stock
GB x58-UD3R mobo
6Gb Corsair ram
3x SSD. 1 dedicated for Windows, 1 for games and the other one I'll explain in a bit.
2x HDD
Sound Blaster Z
EVGA SuperNova G2 750W
What I've done: When I tried trouble shooting this myself last year I ran;
Prime95 - No errors
Memtest86 - No errors
Furmark - No errors
Heaven 4.0 - Some crashes just after it started benchmarking.
Took my PSU back to the shop where they tested it and found no errors.
Bought a 3rd SSD to replace the OS SSD because it was an OCZ Agility3 which my brother replaced. I needed a quick swap for my dead OCZ Vertex 4. Being suspicious at the SSD being an issue I bought a replacement.
Used multiple temperature monitor software and all temps were in order.
What I did today: After losing my rag after loading Destiny 2 for the 5th time and my PC freezing a few minutes after loading I decided it's time I reinstall Windows, I never did a clean install after Windows 10 upgrade in 2015 and yes that also means that SSD I bought ages earlier to replace the OCZ Agility 3 sat connected in my case all that time empty.
So a clean install of Windows 10 on a never used SSD, with my fingers I loaded Destiny 2 all looked fine until I went to travel to EDZ and it was crash type 2, everything frozen and no inputs but I could still talk to my mate on TeamSpeak3. Hard reset, reloaded the game and played for about 2 hours no problem then came here to write this post.
Behaviour of the crashes: It's not all game related, sometimes I can just be watching Youtube and click to another video and freeze. Sometimes when booting I wouldn't even make it to Windows. It's like a funny 5 minutes then the PC would be fine for the duration of use which is why I've not chased the issue and planned up upgrading the problem away, which I've planned on for 3 years and was gunna go with Coffee-Lake but then price and stock issues. The last few days the crashing has been atypical and will crash after every game load. So where it's sometimes 5 minutes of hassle, atm it's been 5 mins of hassle then problem free gaming but then I take a break for an hour and reloading Destiny 2 causes the freezing crash. Oh and I also had a crash today when I plugged IN a USB stick to copy some files on for Windows reinstalling prep.
Tomorrow I'll open my PC and have a look and take out the OCZ Agility 3, and whatever comes to mind as I'm looking.
Last thing to mention is that as I've had the problem for quite some time I've used multiple drivers for my GPU and all Windows updates have been installed.
