My system's become unstable in recent weeks to the point now I'm slightly concerned I have a hardware issue.
Now, I was convinced it all started when the new 50 series drivers came out, but we've since seen 3 or 4 new drivers since then and despite using DDU to do everything properly, I'm now seeing crashes/BSOD/restarts in various games.
I think it's important to mention that so far, it has only ever happened under load and in most cases (not all) it has been when I have tried to alt tab out of a game.
Either the system will freeze up and then hang, forcing a forced restart, or it will BSOD and then restart itself. But it's very intermittent - sometimes I can alt tab out of a game multiple times and nothing happens. I can go for hours with nothing happening and then it can just happen out of the blue.
Event viewer shows the really unhelpful Kernel-Power error which can mean a lot of different things apparently. I can't see anything else in there that would give any clues.
I have noticed recently that my 3090 seems to be running maybe a touch warmer than usual - still well within safe temps (max 78c) but usually it would be in the lower 70's.
I have tried running MemTest86 on each stick of RAM separately - no errors - admittedly I only did 1 pass on each.
Ran sfc /scannow and it found errors and fixed them.
My PSU is a good one - Corsair Platinum 1000w - it's still under warranty so may pursue that.
BIOS and all drivers are up to date.
Windows is up to date.
General system performance seems normal otherwise.
Any advice on what I should try next?
Now, I was convinced it all started when the new 50 series drivers came out, but we've since seen 3 or 4 new drivers since then and despite using DDU to do everything properly, I'm now seeing crashes/BSOD/restarts in various games.
I think it's important to mention that so far, it has only ever happened under load and in most cases (not all) it has been when I have tried to alt tab out of a game.
Either the system will freeze up and then hang, forcing a forced restart, or it will BSOD and then restart itself. But it's very intermittent - sometimes I can alt tab out of a game multiple times and nothing happens. I can go for hours with nothing happening and then it can just happen out of the blue.
Event viewer shows the really unhelpful Kernel-Power error which can mean a lot of different things apparently. I can't see anything else in there that would give any clues.
I have noticed recently that my 3090 seems to be running maybe a touch warmer than usual - still well within safe temps (max 78c) but usually it would be in the lower 70's.
I have tried running MemTest86 on each stick of RAM separately - no errors - admittedly I only did 1 pass on each.
Ran sfc /scannow and it found errors and fixed them.
My PSU is a good one - Corsair Platinum 1000w - it's still under warranty so may pursue that.
BIOS and all drivers are up to date.
Windows is up to date.
General system performance seems normal otherwise.
Any advice on what I should try next?
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