Hi everyone
About a month ago I started to have these BSODS while playing various games. Well not really BSODS:
The system hangs, the screen sometimes turns black, and the audio stutters. At this point, there are only two options:
- Wait untill the system reboots
- Hard shut-down the system
Some observations:
Things I've tried:
I'm getting quite desperate since I don't really know how to debug hardware failures :/
Thanks in advance for everyone who is willing to help.
About a month ago I started to have these BSODS while playing various games. Well not really BSODS:
The system hangs, the screen sometimes turns black, and the audio stutters. At this point, there are only two options:
- Wait untill the system reboots
- Hard shut-down the system
Some observations:
- When waiting untill the system reboots, it loads windows and restarts for Windows Update.
- The (genuine steam) games that cause this error are:
- GTA V: frequently
- The forest: right from the beginning
- The talos principle: I've played this game for weeks without troubles, but recently it also crashed once.
- Mortal Kombat Komplete edition (9): only once, after a long playtime. This seems to be the most stable game for the moment.
- Retro gaming doesn't seem to have any effect.
- My event log is overwhelmed by DeviceSetupManager warnings
Things I've tried:
- Updates
- Reverted to an older version of my GPU driver
- Disabled one screen while gaming
- Stress test on the GPU (No problems, no excessive heat)
- Stress test on the CPU (No problems, no excessive heat)
- A combination of the two above
- Format C:
- Manually install updates / don't trust update utilities
I'm getting quite desperate since I don't really know how to debug hardware failures :/
Thanks in advance for everyone who is willing to help.
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation x64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Intel Core i7 5820K @ 3.30GHz
- Motherboard
- MSI X99S GAMING 7 (MS-7885) Socket 2011 v3
- Memory
- 4 x 4GB Quad Channel
- Graphics Card(s)
- Asus Strix GeForce GTX 970
- Sound Card
- Realtek HD Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2 x Ilyama ProLite B2483HS
- Screen Resolution
- 3840x1080
- Hard Drives
- 232GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB (SSD)
931GB Western Digital WDC WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0 (SATA)
931GB Western Digital WD My Passport 0748 USB Device (USB (SATA))
- PSU
- Corsair 650 Watt
- Case
- Be Quiet! Silent Base 800
- Cooling
- Be Quiet! fans + Corsair Hydro 80i
- Keyboard
- Logitech G11
- Mouse
- RAT 9
- Internet Speed
- ~2MB/s
- Browser
- Iron