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Games wont stop crashing.

Oct 21, 2019 7:46PM PDT

I recently bought all new stuff to put in my pc, completely gutted it and started over except for my hdd. After about a week of use games started crashing after very short use, typically within 5 mins. I reinstalled and uninstalled drivers, ran gpu and cpu stress tests and even swapped out gpu, and still got the same result.
After some diagnosing with my friend we discovered the hdd was running at 100% at idle, so we got a new ssd got a new version of windows 10, got everything back up and running and after about 2 days of use, games started crashing again, the same as before.

My pcs specs are this:
1080ti
B350 msi pc mate
700w bronze psu
Ryzen 5 1600
500gb ssd
8gb ram

My thoughts were perhaps the psu was bad and causing the gpu to spike but idk why the games would work for a time before crashing again, same with ram.

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The 350 board
Oct 21, 2019 8:09PM PDT

Has a lot of reports like this. While I would not use that model try:

1. Update the BIOS to the version the motherboard support tells you to.
2. Set the BIOS per their instructions.

Note: I am not their support and won't be current on these items.

3. Now try disabling Windows Driver Update and install in order:
a. Motherboard drivers (again the version the maker tells you use.)
b. Audio drivers. Same as above.
c. GPU drivers. Use Nvidia's GeForce Experience.

You didn't mention heat or such so keep an eye on temps.

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350 board
Oct 22, 2019 3:28PM PDT

Other than this issue, what are other reasons for why you wouldn't want to use this board does it have other major issues, does it work good now with updates?

Post was last edited on October 22, 2019 3:30 PM PDT

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After you work this issue a few times.
Oct 22, 2019 3:53PM PDT

You stop trying to save such a system.

I supplied what we try before we swap out the board.
Did you complete all task?
Did you do what the maker told you?

Sometimes you get a client or query like this and they are looking for something magic. For me that would be to change it to the 450 noted at https://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace/wiki/builds

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This solved it
Oct 25, 2019 6:56AM PDT

I just was wondering in case there was a possibility of me running into any other issues down the line, other than this 1 albeit major problem, this build works extremly well for what i want and probably wont be upgrading anything major for awhile. Thank you.

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Thermal Paste Used?
Oct 22, 2019 4:13AM PDT

Did you remember to use it?

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Yes
Oct 22, 2019 3:27PM PDT

Yes, definitely did that. No problems with over heating idle is usually around 33° full load never gets above 73°.

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Ryzen 5
Oct 22, 2019 7:32PM PDT

Bob mentioned the most often fix is BIOS update. What I've seen in linux forums are the requirement for the latest video driver files. There the standard ATI for gpu has been replaced by amdgpu driver. So, make sure you turn off windows DRIVER updates (not the overall update system) and reinstall the latest video drivers for that motherboard.