Realtek PCIe and Intel Wi-Fi issues prevent gaming from working.
Realtek PCIe and Intel Wi-Fi issues prevent gaming from working.
Hey everyone, I've been facing some problems with my PC lately that are making gaming really tough. (At least for the games that require more processing power, 2D sprite titles seem fine) After playing for a few minutes, the internet suddenly stops and I hear a 'USB disconnected' alert. Then the game crashes right away. It seems to have started around this summer, but it's hard to remember exactly when it would fail. In the past weeks it's gotten worse, to the point where I can't play any games at all. I think it happens more often when it gets warm—around 20°C or higher in the room. In summer without air conditioning, it would crash if the AC was on, but now with heating on it starts to behave strangely. I'm not sure if this is just my imagination. When the crash occurs, my PC still works. Trying to restart or shut it down makes it freeze and stay on the shutdown screen. Forcing a shutdown and then rebooting doesn't get it up at all—my motherboard lights up red and orange. After some time it boots normally. Event Viewer shows errors like: Realtek PCIe 2.5GbE Family Controller has a Hardware IO error. Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz: internal error detected. The network adapter returned an invalid value to the driver. Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz: network adapter not working properly. (Also saw 'Gameinput service stops working' but that should have fixed itself after deleting the old one; see Reddit thread.)
Hardware specs:
- RAM: ROG Strix 570-E
- CPU: Ryzen 5900X
- Power supply: Seasonic 1000W
- GPU: AMD 3080 TUF
I ran a CPU stress test and it worked fine. I did a GPU stress test and the crash happened in just a few minutes. Anyone have any ideas about what's going on?