Is my computer crashing a lot?
Is my computer crashing a lot?
My PC crashes regularly. Sometimes daily. Just today it crashed twice within 30 minutes. I get the blue screen that reads "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart". I tried looking through the logs in Even Viewer, but I'll admit that I'm not very familiar with that. I was able to find 2 critical messages that match up with the times that my PC crashed but these are just messages that say that my PC rebooted after a crash. They don't give any info regarding the actual problem that caused the crash. If you guys can help me locate the crash logs, I'll be happy to share them with you. This has become so frustrating, never knowing when it will crash next. I'll add that this a custom build and the problem has been happening since the day I built it. I have done fresh re-installs of Windows three times to see if that would help, but nothing changes. OS: Windows 11 Pro Mobo: AsRock B550M-C CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Ram: 16gb DDR4 3200 GPU: XFX RX-580 8GB SSD: Kingston NVME 1TB PSU: Corsair CX600 CPU Cooler: Thermaltake UX100 3 case fans plus cpu fan with proper fan control setup
It's just a guess since we don't know which error codes were on board when things broke. But crashes like this usually mean your memory is broken or doesn't talk well with other parts of it. Before, I had regular crashes that made no sense because the CPU and memory didn't match up properly. Your crash files should be in "C:\Windows\Minidump". You can also check Event Viewer under Critical events to see what happened there, where you'll find the error code details. I know you said you weren't familiar with finding those things, and unfortunately I don't remember how to do it anymore.
I don't use any overclocking tricks right now. My computer has an older BIOS version that looks a bit like the new ones coming out every few months. It's actually in beta test mode, just like what I'm running today. Should I bother updating it? After my first step (scanning health), it said no parts were corrupted. Then when I ran scannow, Windows said nothing was broken either.