Hey all, haven't been here in ages, couldn't even remember my username! I've been having a bit of an issue lately, and I can't seem to pinpoint it, however I am leaning to either the mobo or video card failing, or of course drivers ruining my life.
I built a PC about 2-3 years ago: i5 2500k, 8gb RAM, Radeon r9 380, ASrock mobo (b75m-dgs whose model doesn't show in msinfo, and a Netgear wifi usb stick. I have some speakers plugged into the back and a headset into the front jacks.
Not sure if related, but I'll start with the issues I've been having for a while, which didn't bother me too much. Occasionally on boot, the wifi USB stick wouldn't work (either steady light which indicates no activity, and no internet connection on the desktop, or would just stay off), it would require a restart or pulling it out and plugging it back in... no biggie. When the computer is off, my mouse or keyboard lights would come on and stay on... also no biggie, however weird. Otherwise, everything would work just fine.
Recently however, maybe a month or two or so, my internet started to lag. I play counter strike, and my ping would just go through the roof, for prolonged periods of time and momentarily come back down to normal for a short while. I have a bunch of things on my wifi, I pondered the possibility of the router not being able to handle it... but pinging it from my phone I get responses and no loss, pinging from the desktop I get slow responses and losing packets. Maybe interference... changed the channel and same issue. This isn't constant though, so I am at a slight loss.
Now for the newest and biggest issue, my game started to freeze. I would get a black screen or the ingame screen would just freeze. No response from the computer what so ever. It did BSOD a couple times, one of them was "THREAD STUCK IN DEVICE DRIVER". I can't recall what the other was, but it was different. Now I can't pinpoint if this started happening after a Radeon driver update, and I tried rolling the drivers back and updating again.
I'm hoping someone can help me narrow down the culprit, I'm really hoping the mobo is taking a dump because I don't want to buy a new video card.
Thanks in advance!
I built a PC about 2-3 years ago: i5 2500k, 8gb RAM, Radeon r9 380, ASrock mobo (b75m-dgs whose model doesn't show in msinfo, and a Netgear wifi usb stick. I have some speakers plugged into the back and a headset into the front jacks.
Not sure if related, but I'll start with the issues I've been having for a while, which didn't bother me too much. Occasionally on boot, the wifi USB stick wouldn't work (either steady light which indicates no activity, and no internet connection on the desktop, or would just stay off), it would require a restart or pulling it out and plugging it back in... no biggie. When the computer is off, my mouse or keyboard lights would come on and stay on... also no biggie, however weird. Otherwise, everything would work just fine.
Recently however, maybe a month or two or so, my internet started to lag. I play counter strike, and my ping would just go through the roof, for prolonged periods of time and momentarily come back down to normal for a short while. I have a bunch of things on my wifi, I pondered the possibility of the router not being able to handle it... but pinging it from my phone I get responses and no loss, pinging from the desktop I get slow responses and losing packets. Maybe interference... changed the channel and same issue. This isn't constant though, so I am at a slight loss.
Now for the newest and biggest issue, my game started to freeze. I would get a black screen or the ingame screen would just freeze. No response from the computer what so ever. It did BSOD a couple times, one of them was "THREAD STUCK IN DEVICE DRIVER". I can't recall what the other was, but it was different. Now I can't pinpoint if this started happening after a Radeon driver update, and I tried rolling the drivers back and updating again.
I'm hoping someone can help me narrow down the culprit, I'm really hoping the mobo is taking a dump because I don't want to buy a new video card.
Thanks in advance!