F5F Stay Refreshed Hardware Desktop Diagnose severe failures needing a forced restart.

Diagnose severe failures needing a forced restart.

Diagnose severe failures needing a forced restart.

A
Akrasia
Member
225
12-17-2022, 10:02 AM
#1
Here are your specs rephrased:

- Motherboard: MSI Z690-A Pro DDR4
- Power Supply: Corsair 1200
- Recent problems: After upgrading, monitors stopped showing signals and audio glitches occurred, repeating until a hard reset. No signs of system operation, and fans didn’t reach maximum speed as expected. Crash intervals varied unpredictably. Both games appeared Vulkan-based, but World of Warcraft also caused issues.
- Solutions tried: Changed PSU to Direct X 11, switched to DirectX 11, updated drivers with a tool for safe mode, reinstalled drivers, adjusted RAM voltage slightly lower, and ran tests in OCBase without issues.
- GPU settings remain at defaults; removed drivers to enter safe mode, then reinstalled. CPU settings defaulted to MSI board specs, with minor thermal headroom by lowering voltage.
- Temperatures recorded during Cinabench R23 and Furmark runs showed stable readings after a full hour of cycles.
- Power supply tested on another machine with different hardware; RAM remained normal.
- HDR monitor issues in Red Dead 2 were linked to strange HDR settings, possibly a Windows problem. Assumed OS-related since other games worked fine.
- BIOS updated for the 13th-gen board; SSD updates completed.
- Recent changes: Downloaded MSI Center, confirmed Realtek audio and Intel drivers missing, updated them.
- Still experiencing the same crash pattern after MSI updates.
A
Akrasia
12-17-2022, 10:02 AM #1

Here are your specs rephrased:

- Motherboard: MSI Z690-A Pro DDR4
- Power Supply: Corsair 1200
- Recent problems: After upgrading, monitors stopped showing signals and audio glitches occurred, repeating until a hard reset. No signs of system operation, and fans didn’t reach maximum speed as expected. Crash intervals varied unpredictably. Both games appeared Vulkan-based, but World of Warcraft also caused issues.
- Solutions tried: Changed PSU to Direct X 11, switched to DirectX 11, updated drivers with a tool for safe mode, reinstalled drivers, adjusted RAM voltage slightly lower, and ran tests in OCBase without issues.
- GPU settings remain at defaults; removed drivers to enter safe mode, then reinstalled. CPU settings defaulted to MSI board specs, with minor thermal headroom by lowering voltage.
- Temperatures recorded during Cinabench R23 and Furmark runs showed stable readings after a full hour of cycles.
- Power supply tested on another machine with different hardware; RAM remained normal.
- HDR monitor issues in Red Dead 2 were linked to strange HDR settings, possibly a Windows problem. Assumed OS-related since other games worked fine.
- BIOS updated for the 13th-gen board; SSD updates completed.
- Recent changes: Downloaded MSI Center, confirmed Realtek audio and Intel drivers missing, updated them.
- Still experiencing the same crash pattern after MSI updates.