Consistently crashing in games.

[Morgot]

Hey Folks

Hoping one of you might have a solution or a thought for me. I am at a loss.

I updated my mobo/cpu combo a while ago and haven't been able to play a certain game (Borderlands 2). After trying to troubleshoot it a bit, I just gave up and didn't bother playing now. Now I'm consistently having this problem in other games. I could be playing in one 5 seconds, 5 mins or 5 hours...depends. Screen will go black and you can still make out sounds or voices on skype for a few seconds and then it will do that freezing electronic sound and eventually do nothing. To reset I have to physically hold the power button to turn off and turn back on. I also upgraded to windows 8 at the time, thought maybe it's 8 and downgraded to 7. Same problems. Now I'm back on win8

I did the win 7 memtest, no problems. Did a CPU test on OCCT, the CPU/LINPACK test on OCCT and a burn test on furmark with no problems or crashes. I tried sifting through event viewer, but I can't really find anything other than kernel issues with not powering down. Updated bios, downgraded bios. Reset CMOS. ATI drivers. I honestly have no idea. Temps are fine, doesn't really peak over 60. Short of buying the exact same hardware and playing whackamole...I have honestly no idea. I'm guessing it's either the board or CPU, but not sure which.

Speccy snapshot http://i.imgur.com/f95vxn2.png
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/A2okJqUFJWLrp6Ohpwoizfd
event viewer. http://imgur.com/0vdVgpx

Appreciate any help at all guys.

 

[denis280]

what kind of psu on the rig.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

this happened to me when i had a bad power supply (one of my first builds a long time ago). Couldnt handle the load and would crap out in any game.

 

[Morgot]

750w thermaltake bronze something something. It is a couple years old. I installed a new setup today, went with an AMD 990FX/8350 setup and am experiencing the same things in Borderlands 2.....which is weird because it only started happening once I switched to the previous 3750k setup. I did hit the bios switch on my video card, 7970 and was able to run borderlands 2 and wow at the same time for about an hour with no problems.

So I have no idea. I find it hard to believe that was the crux of the problem and it was fixed by switching to the default bios...of which I'm pretty sure I never messed with in the first place. I might invest in a new PSU anyway though.