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?
Hello, I am having constant crashes on my system anytime I game. So this started with a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSD. I got crashes and sent the drive back twice. They replaced it with a Samsung 990 Pro 2TB and since then the latest nvidia drivers have also been a [language] show on my system; CPU: 7900x CPU cooler:Thermalright Royal Pretor 130 Motherboard: Asus Strix b650e-f Ram:32gb ddr5 gksill flare x5 SSD/HDD: 2tb samsung 990 pro, 1tb sn770, 1tb wavlink 880t GPU:rtx 4070 asus tuf PSU:corsair rmx850 Chassis:Lian li 216x OS: windows 11 pro 24h2 Monitor: acer nitro 1440p170hz/msi 24 1080p My pc is stable, with and without PBO, and gpu oc. I can run cinebenchr24 multi for 30 min fine, stream on 2 platforms on obs fine, run any app or program just fine as soon as I run any game my pc crashes and it is different every day. Yesterday I gamed and streamed to twitch for 2 hours, today I can't even run 1 game for more than 5 minutes. Just tonight I spent 2 hours ddu and reinstalling gpu drivers as well as bios update. The 990 pro shows no errors in magician or error checking or in sfc/scannow or DISM checks from command prompt. I am almost certain from over a month of problems that it is the gpu driver but even when I rolled back to nvidia 566.36 there is no stability, even after ddu and clean install. I am tired, I just want to game. If anyone has any ideas of how to narrow it down or fix please help. I have also tried turning down settings, turning off DLSS and relfex. I have also tried an sn850 1tb as my os drive but same results, games crash it and I have reinstalled windows like 4 times on each drive. The sn850 was more stable on some games but eventually crashed too. I have also tried running gpu and nvme on gen 3, and reinstalling drivers from device manager for storage controllers.
Try removing your graphics card and Nvidia drivers, then just run the IGPU software. If this makes things work better or worse, maybe we need to look at the driver settings more closely. You should probably go back a few steps and check what's happening there too. I don't think it has anything to do with your M2 drives right now. Just install the newest motherboard chipset from AMD if you haven't already. Do this every time you clean install Windows, especially if you're using Pro. If you have Home version of Windows, turning off automatic driver installation is easier than you might think. It's a bit trickier for Home but totally doable. You should probably turn that feature off as soon as possible after installing Windows so it doesn't decide to install something weird without you knowing what's going on first.
I updated this because my RAM ran at 6000mhz when I bought the PC two years ago, even though the 7900x can only run it at 5200mhz max on the official AMD site. Now it is stable and boots faster than before. It is hard to believe I had so many problems with my RAM speed for two years. Thanks boju for the tips. The lesson learned is always to check the CPU specs first, not the motherboard.