PC keeps crashing every night even when not in use—no clear solution yet!
PC keeps crashing every night even when not in use—no clear solution yet!
A week ago my computer would stop working at night, even when turned on. I couldn’t see anything on the screen and it wouldn’t wake up. The only fix was a hard reboot. Random BSODs appeared in the Event Viewer during the night—sometimes after about 20 minutes, sometimes later. I was using a Windows 10 installation from two years ago and thought a fresh setup would help. After updating BIOS, installing Windows 11, getting drivers from Asus, and doing a memory check, the crashes kept happening overnight.
Since I work remotely, I spend over nine hours daily on this PC—usually 12 or more. On some days it was fine, but only at night did it fail. I removed my DOCP RAM profile, used Memtest86+ to test each stick individually, and found a faulty one. After replacing it, the tests passed. The bad RAM is now under warranty.
I assumed the issue was bad RAM, but after removing it, the problem returned. I checked CPU and GPU health with Prime95 and Furmark, both normal. The crashes still happened every night until I rebooted. I’m confused—no BSODs the previous night, just unresponsiveness.
Hardware details: Windows 11, 10.0, version 2009, build 22621 (x64). CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, 16-core, 8664 MHz. GPU: AMD RTX 3080 Founder’s Edition. RAM: 49065.2MB total, 4 sticks originally.
I’m frustrated and unsure what to do next.
Retrieve the most recent chipset drivers from the official sources. The latest AMD chipset drivers address certain BlueScreen and Black screen problems, as noted in the release documentation and online updates. These changes may help, though they aren't guaranteed. If RAM installation was problematic during the reinstall, consider running an sfc /scannow check. Verify you have the newest vBios for the 3080 by checking both provided links.
Thanks for your input. The latest chipset drivers should be installed now. Both GPU updates were already present before. After reinstalling the NVIDIA driver via DDU and running SFC/scannow, corrupt files were detected and fixed. I ran sfc/scannow again and it reported no issues. Rebooting again will give us a clearer picture. I’ll wait overnight to see the results. If you have any other ideas to try, feel free to share—I’m open to suggestions!
You can use Hard Disk Sentinel to inspect drives and Windows Reliability Monitor to detect problems. Consider running OCCT (CPU, Linpack, GPU, RAM, ...), MSI Kombustor (Furmark), 3DMark (advanced stability test) and other stress tests. I've noticed "perfectly stable" systems experiencing BSOD during basic tools like CPU-Z or HWMonitor.
I turned off C-States in BIOS (it was previously set to AUTO) — the power settings I have aren’t available for AMD Ryzen, seems like this is laptop-specific for AMD Ryzen. I’m certain when these problems began in Windows 10 I had min/max both at 100% for sure.
Started the day without any crash. Excited to see progress—first crash-free day in about a week. Key updates: swapped AMD chipset drivers for Asus, used DDU to remove display driver, reinstalled fresh NVIDIA drivers (same version), disabled C-States in BIOS, ran SFC/scannow which helped. Uncertain if these were the real fixes or just luck.
No more crashes during shutdowns, which is a positive sign. Still, I experience issues like this occasionally when the system restarts—sometimes it's my Jabra Direct, other times BitWarden. Unclear if reloading makes sense now that sfc is working cleanly and DISM health checks are normal again.