pc crash

[childsy_1985]

for a while now ive been experiencing random pc freezes when I play games. it started after I had a power surge that blew my PSU. I realised that whent he PSU blew it caused damage to other components, i replaced my motherboard and a stick of ram that I found to be faulty. However it didnt 100% fix my PC.
When I play games now, after some time in the game at random intervals, my PC will completely freeze with a sound loop requiring a hard reset. First thing I did was install a temperature monitor program to check my system wasnt overheating. I ran a stress test on the CPU, ran tests on my hard drives and memory. They all past. So I am left with the posibility that my GPU is the hardware at fault, though still hoping it could be a RAM issue.

My question is, is there a test that I can perform to confirm if my GPU is faulty? Any test I can think of would also give errors if a RAM module was faulty.

any help would be greatly apreciated.

 

[johnb35]

Have you ran memtest? Are you getting any bluescreens?

 

[childsy_1985]

yes ran memtest and past with no issues. I get no bluescreens and event viewer only logs an unexpected shutdown

 

[DavidG]

My question is, is there a test that I can perform to confirm if my GPU is faulty?

You can run OCCT that will give the GPU a stress test. If you have two sticks of RAM you can remove the original, if it runs without crashing you have your answer.

OCBASE/OCCT : Free, all-in-one stability, stress test, benchmark and monitoring tool for your PC

Ocbase is the home of OCCT, the most popular all-in-one stability / stress testing / benchmarking / monitoring tool available for PC

www.ocbase.com

 

[childsy_1985]

great thanks. running tests now, hope i get a good answer

 

[childsy_1985]

well ran both gpu tests and got no errors

 

[childsy_1985]

this is strange. my PC got through all the tests without issue. I cant recreate my crashes with tests.... perhaps there is something with one of my hard drives that isnt effected by these tests as they arnt reading the hard drive like a game would.

 

[johnb35]

What program did you use to test the hard drive? What brand of hard drive is it?

 

[childsy_1985]

Cant remember what program I used but my OS drive a Samsung M.2 Evo. My games are installed on a Seagate Baracuda 2tb drive.

 

[johnb35]

Run seatools for windows on the seagate drive.

SeaTools | Seagate US

SeaTools - Quick diagnostic tool that checks the health of your drive.

www.seagate.com

Click the blue download box a couple paragraphs down.

 

[childsy_1985]

ok so I have run tests on ALL my had drives and they all came back fine. However my OS Drive did have trouble when doing a simple disk cleanup, it seemed to take forever. Also the temperature of my OS drive is "High", its sitting at 52c which doesnt seem to bad to mee but I dont really know enough about these M.2 drives. is 52c too high for this sort of drive?

 

[DavidG]

52C is well within limits. Other things to try:
1) Reset the BIOS to defaults.
2)It might be worth doing a BIOS update to see if that improves stability.
3)Also try removing the original stick of RAM for a while and see if the crashes go away.

so if the crashes remain the other rare possibility is the CPU suffered some damage from the voltage spike.