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I have an old PC, built in 2009, i7-920, MSI x-58 Pro mobo, 24GB RAM, MSI GTX 1660 Super, Corsair 650W PSU. Over the last month or so it has been crashing frequently. I started to wonder about the PSU as it's 12 years old, but I'm starting to lean another direction and figured I'd ask here for some help.
This PC is in my office and runs Folding at Home 24/7 unless I'm playing games on it, which isn't that often these days due to lack of time. I used to have an occasional crash, once every 4-5 months maybe, but the last month or so there is at least one a week, typically more. Temps on everything are upper 60s to low 70s during Folding so I don't think there is a temp problem. I have a slight OC on the CPU at 3.6GHz and one on the GPU, but I have tried removing the GPU OC and it still crashes. Every time I notice it has rebooted I check the event viewer, but all it says is that the PC was not shut down cleanly. I looked into a lack of crash dumps and evidently I did not have a page file set up. My C drive is only a 128GB SSD and with 24GB of RAM it looks like I need a healthy page file, but I only have 30GB of space on the drive, maybe some advice here? Yesterday I noticed that Windows Defender updated about 3 hours before the crash, so I started looking back further and sure enough every time the PC crashed it was 3-12 hours after a Defender update. There seems to have been several updates this week and the PC has crashed every time after updating and that trend continued back through to the beginning of June where I stopped looking.
Has anyone heard of anything like this before? I have disabled Windows Defender for now to see if that is in fact the problem or just coincidence.
This PC is in my office and runs Folding at Home 24/7 unless I'm playing games on it, which isn't that often these days due to lack of time. I used to have an occasional crash, once every 4-5 months maybe, but the last month or so there is at least one a week, typically more. Temps on everything are upper 60s to low 70s during Folding so I don't think there is a temp problem. I have a slight OC on the CPU at 3.6GHz and one on the GPU, but I have tried removing the GPU OC and it still crashes. Every time I notice it has rebooted I check the event viewer, but all it says is that the PC was not shut down cleanly. I looked into a lack of crash dumps and evidently I did not have a page file set up. My C drive is only a 128GB SSD and with 24GB of RAM it looks like I need a healthy page file, but I only have 30GB of space on the drive, maybe some advice here? Yesterday I noticed that Windows Defender updated about 3 hours before the crash, so I started looking back further and sure enough every time the PC crashed it was 3-12 hours after a Defender update. There seems to have been several updates this week and the PC has crashed every time after updating and that trend continued back through to the beginning of June where I stopped looking.
Has anyone heard of anything like this before? I have disabled Windows Defender for now to see if that is in fact the problem or just coincidence.