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Jun 19 2020 06:03pm
Recently my computer has been acting up by freezing during game play.

Its completely frozen having to be rebooted. Tonight during poe launch I had 5+ freezes making gaming impossible.

How would I go about locating the cause of the problem?

I somehow suspect its my old psu or even gpu.

System is offline atm so posting from mobile.

i5 4670k at stock speed atm
Msi z87-g45
Corsair lpx ram 16gb
gtx 980ti
Xfx 650w bronze Psu
Samsung 840 evo 250gb
Additional hdds

Monitoring temps they are within reasonable limits I think

Gpu 80 degrees c under load
CPU 65 degrees c under load

Idle of course much lower.

Hope some of you can help me figure this out :(
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Jun 19 2020 06:18pm
Start with ddu and then a format if it persists.
Then swap out hardware last unless you already own spares, then do a format last
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Jun 19 2020 07:32pm
nvm

This post was edited by Ghot on Jun 19 2020 07:36pm
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Jun 20 2020 04:27pm
if it was psu
pc would shut off
play another very demanding game
and see if it still freezes
to eliminate that game being the cause
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Jun 20 2020 06:14pm
Quote (urbanshaft @ 21 Jun 2020 00:27)
if it was psu
pc would shut off
play another very demanding game
and see if it still freezes
to eliminate that game being the cause


Tried it in both csgo and poe so far with freezes happening.

There is no bsod just complet system lock.

I tried updating drivers (not with ddu yet)
i tried resetting Windows.

Unfortunately I dont have any spares so id like to pinpoint the issue as precisely before buying new part(s).
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Jun 21 2020 07:41am
Quote (Monze @ Jun 20 2020 08:14pm)
Tried it in both csgo and poe so far with freezes happening.

There is no bsod just complet system lock.

I tried updating drivers (not with ddu yet)
i tried resetting Windows.

Unfortunately I dont have any spares so id like to pinpoint the issue as precisely before buying new part(s).


updating drivers without ddu tells us nothing.
resetting is not a format.

we can only tell you the process with what little we know.
could do all three and later find out its a defective cpu.
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Jun 21 2020 02:14pm
this bald asshole aint going to help
he couldnt troubleshoot his hairline

if it was gpu would be noticable things
on monitor
or driver crashes not freezing

google memory stress test
run em
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Jun 21 2020 04:42pm
Quote (King Atrhur @ 21 Jun 2020 15:41)
updating drivers without ddu tells us nothing.
resetting is not a format.

we can only tell you the process with what little we know.
could do all three and later find out its a defective cpu.


Did some more testing today.

Used ddu in safe mode. No effect
Found an area in poe that would crash the system every time I tried.
Tested this spot using onboard graphics. No crashes
Tested unigine heaven. More crashes.

How ever when I moved the gpu from pci port 1 to port 2 the crashes stopped almost completely. Was able to game for 6 hours with only 1 crash. Before id get them every few minuts when gaming.

Not sure what to make of this.
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Jun 21 2020 05:50pm
Test your memory
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Jun 21 2020 05:51pm
Quote (Monze @ Jun 21 2020 06:42pm)
Did some more testing today.

Used ddu in safe mode. No effect
Found an area in poe that would crash the system every time I tried.
Tested this spot using onboard graphics. No crashes
Tested unigine heaven. More crashes.

How ever when I moved the gpu from pci port 1 to port 2 the crashes stopped almost completely. Was able to game for 6 hours with only 1 crash. Before id get them every few minuts when gaming.

Not sure what to make of this.


bad pci slot imo.
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