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Need help fixing issues with a new CPU?

Need help fixing issues with a new CPU?

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SneaZyEU
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03-29-2026, 12:40 AM
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Hi everyone, I recently changed my CPU from a Ryzen 3 2200g to a Ryzen 5 5600 and since that change, my PC keeps restarting randomly. It's showing me WHEA-logger errors which are like serious warning signs inside the computer. The crashes got more and more common until at one point nothing worked, not even the BIOS screen. I reset the motherboard today with a battery so it thinks I've rebooted normally and that fixed the no display issue but now I keep getting random restarts too. I have been trying to fix this for two weeks while also swapping out my SSD and power supply because both were old and terrible, so I think those are gone now. Before I swapped the CPU, I updated the BIOS version which was needed to run the new 5000 series and that worked fine when I used the old Ryzen 3. I tested the graphics card and the new CPU with a stress test program called OCCT and both stayed cool for over an hour while the temps were under 80C. I am pretty much a beginner at fixing computers and my online searches aren't giving me any real help either. I was hoping some people here could guide me through this so I can figure out exactly what's going on. Here are my PC specs: Motherboard is a Gigabyte B450M DS3H v2, CPU is the Ryzen 5 5600, Graphics card is a GTX 1050 Ti, RAM is two sticks of Corsair Vengeance 3000 MHz DDR4, and power supply is an MSI MAG A650BN. I even have this last WHEA-logger from before which said: a fatal hardware error has occurred and it happened to the processor core. The source was a machine check exception with type cache hierarchy error and APIC ID 5. Thanks everyone for listening.
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03-29-2026, 12:40 AM #1

Hi everyone, I recently changed my CPU from a Ryzen 3 2200g to a Ryzen 5 5600 and since that change, my PC keeps restarting randomly. It's showing me WHEA-logger errors which are like serious warning signs inside the computer. The crashes got more and more common until at one point nothing worked, not even the BIOS screen. I reset the motherboard today with a battery so it thinks I've rebooted normally and that fixed the no display issue but now I keep getting random restarts too. I have been trying to fix this for two weeks while also swapping out my SSD and power supply because both were old and terrible, so I think those are gone now. Before I swapped the CPU, I updated the BIOS version which was needed to run the new 5000 series and that worked fine when I used the old Ryzen 3. I tested the graphics card and the new CPU with a stress test program called OCCT and both stayed cool for over an hour while the temps were under 80C. I am pretty much a beginner at fixing computers and my online searches aren't giving me any real help either. I was hoping some people here could guide me through this so I can figure out exactly what's going on. Here are my PC specs: Motherboard is a Gigabyte B450M DS3H v2, CPU is the Ryzen 5 5600, Graphics card is a GTX 1050 Ti, RAM is two sticks of Corsair Vengeance 3000 MHz DDR4, and power supply is an MSI MAG A650BN. I even have this last WHEA-logger from before which said: a fatal hardware error has occurred and it happened to the processor core. The source was a machine check exception with type cache hierarchy error and APIC ID 5. Thanks everyone for listening.

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