It may restart due to temporary glitches or background processes.
It may restart due to temporary glitches or background processes.
I've been having a lot of trouble with my PC and I don't know what else I can do. Whilst gaming my PC freezes and restarts, it sometimes takes 20 minutes, it sometimes takes 3 hours. It usually happens when chancing scenes in games, for example in Assassins creed when I unpaused the menu, it suddenly froze. I thought my PSU was faulty so I replaced it, and it keeps on happening now. Because there aren't any dumpfiles created I am completely out of leads and I spend my last money on the new PSU because that seemed the logical approach. Can anyone help me please, maybe I'm just looking at the wrong things. My PC: Ryzen 3600xt 3070Ti FE RM750 Corsair PSU 2x8 Ram, Gskill Trident-Z 3200 M.2 wd black 1 noctua fan 3 arctic fans Scythe cooler 1 small rgb ledstrip These are the things I already did: 1. Replace my PSU, using the same PSU that worked before 2. DDU for installing fresh display drivers 3. Fresh installs 4. Memtest86 for both Ram-sticks and independent sticks 5. SFC scans and image quality of windows 6. rewired the whole case in case something was badly wired. 7. monitored and checked all my temps, which never surpass 75c. 8. Monitored wattage of the GPU (which never topped 300 watt). I somehow suspect power spikes are the culprit, but every website I've used tells me 750 watt should be plenty. 9. Updated my motherboard Bios, installed all the latest drivers. Thank you so much for helping me
Review activities... admin > event viewer Perhaps you notice some drivers didn't react quickly enough or dropped calls. No reference to motherboard or PCIe slot for the graphics card. Try switching the slot to PCIe 3.0 if available in BIOS, maybe a PCIe 4.0 problem is causing data corruption during transfers to/from the card. You mention this occurs mainly during scene changes—when a lot of traffic hits the PCIe bus (loading textures, shaders, geometry). It could also be when the card's power draw spikes briefly, like 50W above normal for a short time, which should be supported by your PSU. Consider turning off RGB features to simplify diagnostics; reduce the test environment to essentials, skip background apps that use color. Also watch for visual noise—LEDs switching rapidly hundreds or thousands of times per second to create specific brightness levels. This is rare but possible if the card reacts strongly to such fluctuations from RGB components or other hardware. Verify all PCIe 6/8 pins in the card's headers are securely connected.
I attempted several fixes but still encountered frozen screens. Here are the actions I took:
- Used the PCI-E Gen 4 slot on my motherboard, though set it to Gen3
- Removed RGB lighting
- Installed fresh drivers and ran DDU to clear old ones
- Disconnected all USB devices
- Unplugged the old hard drive that was still connected
I suspect it might be a 3070 Ti or similar. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help!