Hi there,
I've had a build for about 2 years now, and have been dealing with system instability for the last 4 months or so. I've followed the stickies and THINK it's my CPU and wanted some advice. I noticed 2 main sorts of bugs so far:
Since then, I've done the following:
What are my next steps? How can I further test the CPU?
My system is as follows:
I've had a build for about 2 years now, and have been dealing with system instability for the last 4 months or so. I've followed the stickies and THINK it's my CPU and wanted some advice. I noticed 2 main sorts of bugs so far:
- System crashes when mining Bitcoin (NiceHash). I'm using both GPU and CPU mining here. It's weird, the PC doesn't shut off or throw an error, but I notice it goes "quiet" (i.e. fans on low, GPU no longer cranking) and the screen is black and unresponsive. Have to do a hard reboot and then it's fine.
- I get the occasional screen tear, I think mainly when gaming. Always on the right hand size of my screen, its a half a second vertical column of pink/purple/green. Can't be more than 200 pixels wide (<5% of my screen) and goes away right after.
Since then, I've done the following:
- Ran MEMTest with no issues (got to "100%" or beyond with no errors, had it running for a few hours)
- Ran Prime95 and am getting the same "black screen" crash as with mining. I don't have an error log or anything to go to there.
What are my next steps? How can I further test the CPU?
My system is as follows:
- Ryzen 1700
- Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti
- 16gb RAM G.Skill FlareX
- Asus X370 Taichi
- Seasonic M12II 620wt PSU
- Crucial M4 128gb SSD
- Samsung 840 and 960 EVO SSD