What causing my PC crashes?

Archii said:
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My PC had been running normally and was very happy for about a week. I had XMP enabled, but nothing else changed in BIOS - completely default.

It's just started to crash again and I have absolutely no idea why. It sometimes happens straight after booting up and logging into my windows account! So it can't be temperature related.
Sometimes it happens when simply watching a Youtube video with nothing open in the background, sometimes when gaming, sometimes when idle even!

Is there a way I can create a log file for why the PC has crashed?

Edit: It literally just crashed as I was typing that :mad::mad:

I might be ready to throw this thing out the window.
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are you trying for a cpu all core clock of 5ghz with 4000mhz ram?, tbh you'll be very very lucky to get that on both components, i suspect if you are overclocking both cpu to 5ghz and ram to 4ghz the imc on the cpu cant keep up, try your cpu clock only and if that holds increase your ram speed start at 3600mhz and boost to 3800mhz if the last setting works, if 3800mhz on ram works with a 5ghz all core cpu clock try 4ghz for the ram, if at this point you get any weird behavoir or crashes i do belive the ram is simply set to high for the imc on the cpu to keep up and no matter how many volts you use nothing will change, if you keep pushing you could damage the cpu so be careful
 
wookiee87 said:
are you trying for a cpu all core clock of 5ghz with 4000mhz ram?, tbh you'll be very very lucky to get that on both components, i suspect if you are overclocking both cpu to 5ghz and ram to 4ghz the imc on the cpu cant keep up, try your cpu clock only and if that holds increase your ram speed start at 3600mhz and boost to 3800mhz if the last setting works, if 3800mhz on ram works with a 5ghz all core cpu clock try 4ghz for the ram, if at this point you get any weird behavoir or crashes i do belive the ram is simply set to high for the imc on the cpu to keep up and no matter how many volts you use nothing will change, if you keep pushing you could damage the cpu so be careful
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Sorry, I've kept everything on default in BIOS. I've not trying to overclock at all.
For example right now, I've got XMP disabled, everything at default and it's still crashing. Running at base clock of 3.6Ghz
 
Archii said:
Sorry, I've kept everything on default in BIOS. I've not trying to overclock at all.
For example right now, I've got XMP disabled, everything at default and it's still crashing. Running at base clock of 3.6Ghz
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whats the ram running at may i ask and at what voltage?
plus which bios are you running too, for stability you may need to update but that all depends which bios you are on now
 
Just checked BIOS:

CPU:
3600MHz
1.003V

RAM:
2400MHz
1.2V

I'm wondering if I need to use the extra CPU header on the mobo to give it more juice?
 
Archii said:
Just checked BIOS:

CPU:
3600MHz
1.003V

RAM:
2400MHz
1.2V

I'm wondering if I need to use the extra CPU header on the mobo to give it more juice?
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extra eps 8 pin for cpu power, only really needed if you start pushing the cpu overclock, but it cant hurt to install and see if that helps

i've just seen your first post regarding the ram, you've got a quad set, split them up into there pairs and test each kit one at a time, if everything works fine at xmp but not when all installed and xmp'd that may be the issue, long short of it the imc on the cpu isnt up to the taks running 4 stick of ram at 4000mhz, if your crashing at 2400mhz with all 4 sticks you must have a real doosy of a cpu :( , you've already ran ram tests and all came back ok which points to the cpu, test the ram in dual channel mode to find out
 
wookiee87 said:
extra eps 8 pin for cpu power, only really needed if you start pushing the cpu overclock, but it cant hurt to install and see if that helps

i've just seen your first post regarding the ram, you've got a quad set, split them up into there pairs and test each kit one at a time, if everything works fine at xmp but not when all installed and xmp'd that may be the issue, long short of it the imc on the cpu isnt up to the taks running 4 stick of ram at 4000mhz, if your crashing at 2400mhz with all 4 sticks you must have a real doosy of a cpu :( , you've already ran ram tests and all came back ok which points to the cpu, test the ram in dual channel mode to find out
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I've just removed two sticks.
Should I enable XMP with my 16gb of ram?
 
Archii said:
I've just removed two sticks.
Should I enable XMP with my 16gb of ram?
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for testing start at 2400mhz and if that passes then yes enable xmp and see if the same test passes if they do the first set of ram is ok, power down and install the second set and do the same first at 2400mhz and test and then again at 4000mhz via xmp, if after the tests both ram kits work in there pairs then its a cpu issue, but install all 4 again at 2400mhz and see if the problems start if they do your cpu imc is a bit poor :(
 
wookiee87 said:
for testing start at 2400mhz and if that passes then yes enable xmp and see if the same test passes if they do the first set of ram is ok, power down and install the second set and do the same first at 2400mhz and test and then again at 4000mhz via xmp, if after the tests both ram kits work in there pairs then its a cpu issue, but install all 4 again at 2400mhz and see if the problems start if they do your cpu imcc is a bit poor :(
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I really appreciate your help, thank you.

It's just crashed with 2 sticks at 2400MHz, no xmp.

Now trying with the other 2 sticks in the other channel..
 
Archii said:
I really appreciate your help, thank you.

It's just crashed with 2 sticks at 2400MHz, no xmp.

Now trying with the other 2 sticks in the other channel..
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with the other sicks take the first 2 out and use the same slots or the pc will not boot!

also no problem at all happy to help
 
Archii said:
Just crashed with no xmp
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take all sticks of ram out and take a clear close up pic of all 4 ram slots and post here via imgur, in that time take a look and see if there is any thing that looks a miss with the slots or the ram

what error did the bluescreen show?

do you happen to know the bios version your running too?
 
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