All,
I have been having a problem with my PC for several weeks now that it will work perfectly fine until I try to play video games with it. I can watch movies/videos, play emulator games, stream videos, surf the web etc. and rarely does it every have a single issue. However, the moment I fire up a game in some short period of time the system will crash. Normally to black screen (various errors in event viewer related to nvlddmkm) where it will either recover with the game crashed out or the system will reboot. This can happen 1-2minutes in or 1hr in it's very sporadic but once it happens if the system recovers and I try to go back in it generally crashes again very quickly. I tried some fix that was on YouTube about BlackScreen nvlddmkm where it had me ensure the video driver is the most current and made sure power settings are maxed but it had little effect. I've also monitored temperatures but nothing gets too high (CPU taxed 40-50C) (GPU taxed 70-80C).
I don't think the issue is RAM as I've ran MemTest multiple times on my RAM with no faults and also i've tested my PC with 8gb/16/32gb and get the same crashes. It actually seems like it crashes faster when I have all 4 sticks/32gb of RAM in then when I run 16gb. So this leads me more towards a MB or Power issue but I can't rule out the graphics card either. I have a 750W power supply so power should be adequate if it's quality power. Another weird thing that I don't know if it's related at all or not is I have RGB ram and very quickly it goes out of color sync which makes me again wonder if there is an MB/Power issue or if it's not related at all. When I start the system it's synced but in no time it goes out of sync in a rainbow configuration.
Any additional troubleshooting steps, guidance or feedback would be greatly appreciated. I've attached the speccy report results link below. Thank you.
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/XTJUpPPxjZOT0AZWidPze6R
I have been having a problem with my PC for several weeks now that it will work perfectly fine until I try to play video games with it. I can watch movies/videos, play emulator games, stream videos, surf the web etc. and rarely does it every have a single issue. However, the moment I fire up a game in some short period of time the system will crash. Normally to black screen (various errors in event viewer related to nvlddmkm) where it will either recover with the game crashed out or the system will reboot. This can happen 1-2minutes in or 1hr in it's very sporadic but once it happens if the system recovers and I try to go back in it generally crashes again very quickly. I tried some fix that was on YouTube about BlackScreen nvlddmkm where it had me ensure the video driver is the most current and made sure power settings are maxed but it had little effect. I've also monitored temperatures but nothing gets too high (CPU taxed 40-50C) (GPU taxed 70-80C).
I don't think the issue is RAM as I've ran MemTest multiple times on my RAM with no faults and also i've tested my PC with 8gb/16/32gb and get the same crashes. It actually seems like it crashes faster when I have all 4 sticks/32gb of RAM in then when I run 16gb. So this leads me more towards a MB or Power issue but I can't rule out the graphics card either. I have a 750W power supply so power should be adequate if it's quality power. Another weird thing that I don't know if it's related at all or not is I have RGB ram and very quickly it goes out of color sync which makes me again wonder if there is an MB/Power issue or if it's not related at all. When I start the system it's synced but in no time it goes out of sync in a rainbow configuration.
Any additional troubleshooting steps, guidance or feedback would be greatly appreciated. I've attached the speccy report results link below. Thank you.
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/XTJUpPPxjZOT0AZWidPze6R