Have you got trouble with hard drives or an Nvidia driver, and keeps getting crashes?
Have you got trouble with hard drives or an Nvidia driver, and keeps getting crashes?
What games are you crashing on? Crashes can change from one game to another, and even from one driver to another. What kind of crashes are you getting? Are they bluish screen errors or do your systems just crash back to the desktop with or without error messages? I think this setup means two sticks of 16gb RAM each.
Hello, every single game I play crashes on any of my three drives. Sometimes it's a hard crash where windows goes black or the PC turns off and gets stuck in blue screen errors after that. I just did a full reset using the Windows media creation installation tool, but the very first game I tried to load up Halo Infinite crashed right away instantly. I'm not 100% sure what's wrong because these problems didn't happen until I got my new 990 Pro GPU. The only time my computer crashes is when I play games. Maybe it's that 4070 card? Right now, I am using an old driver for the graphics card named 560.94, which isn't even a recent buggy update yet. Yes, my RAM is 2x16
I have been so confused lately since I just set up a new PC from a USB drive two hours ago. Now it crashes when opening apps, moving files, or downloading programs. The computer is sitting at 68 degrees Celsius while the other one stayed cool even after gaming. I am completely lost and don't know what to do. All I can think about is using my backup SSD and cursing Samsung forever.
I am currently using driver version 561.09, because with Apex Legends any driver above that version crashes the game. Trust me when I say this, I did test all the other driver above that version. Anyways, this is a known issue with setups like yours (AMD cpu + NVIDIA gpu), see: https://shorturl.at/UUbqK (had to shorten the url, because of the stupid spam filter on this site) On my old pc I used to play on 560.94, which also seemed to work fine. So I don't suspect the driver to be the issue here. I also have Samsung 990 EVO 2TB (non Pro, but Plus) and its working perfectly fine. Did you by any chance update the default Microsoft drivers (note drivers, NOT firmware) with the Samsung ones? If so, thats a big no no. The Samsung drivers are known to be buggy. Your cpu idling (when not gaming) at 68c does not seem right. Mine sits around 37c on a 7800x3d. Assuming your cooler fans are blowing in the correct direction, I would check the thermal paste distribution on the cpu. Unmount the cooler to make sure that part was correct. You do need to clean off old paste with Isopropyl alcohol, then re-apply new paste. Worst case scenario the paste could not be covering all heat sources, thus producing bad thermal transference. What thermal paste did you use and when was the last time you applied it? Edit: I might have read this wrong and you meant cpu idling when gaming. If so, thats perfectly fine, your cpu can handle temps up to 90c.
Final update, and you can mark this as solved . I swapped in my WD_BLACK 1TB SN850 NVMe SSD. occt, cinenbench worked, and I gamed on latest nvidia drivers, no crashes. I don't understand why, but both the samsung980 pro 2tb and 990 pro 2tb were unstable on my Asus Strix b650e-f mobo. I am just glad I had my sn850 with a windows install on back up. If anyone ever has problems with Samsung drives on Asus mobo's just get a new drive. Thank you to everyone who posted an answer and offered support. This was beyond any logic and just Samsung no work on Asus I guess. Thank you for your experience, and sharing ideas. These are solid things to try. But in my case for whatever reason it was the drive itself.