Question Really odd problem with 3900x system.

[Markfw]

OK, I usually am the master of these things, but here is a new one to me. So I have a 3900x, a X370 Taichi motherboard 4 x 8 gig ram, an AIO, and a 2060 video card, with an 850 watt PSU. For a year, all was fine, then the last few weeks, after about 2 days, it just shuts down. I unplug the PSU for a few hours, plug it back in, and then power up. All is fine for a few more days. I changed out the PSU to a brand new gold EVGA 850, no change, so thats not it. The temps are fine after boot, even@100% load.. But about 2-3 days later it will shut down again.

Motherboard getting overloaded with a 3900x ? Old VRM's that are a little weak ?

 

[Markfw]

@Markfw Newegg has 10900k in stock if you are still looking

Nope, gave up... Not worth it to prove my point.

 

[phillyman36]

Looking thru the event viewer I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Did a search and saw some people with the same problem. They were saying theirs was a memory problem. I did update the bios. I changed the xmp(whatever Amd call theirs) memory to the standard default 2133 instead if the 3200 and so far no reboots.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

My old X58 Asrock Extreme SATA ports eventually failed. Well I assume it's the ports. I'm finding this program called 'Mirror Folder' is giving the drives issues on my replacement EVGA E770 so maybe the Asrock is fine. Another similar case: one of the USB 3.0 ports on the replacement EVGA burned out. I was doing large file replacements on an SSD attached to a USB 3.0 to SATA adapter and so far it seems it wrecked one USB 3.0 port for sure and the other seems to be going.

 

[phillyman36]

Im still getting random reboots. I may go back to 1302 bios. Currently on the 2103 and thats when i started having problems.

 

[Markfw]

Im still getting random reboots. I may go back to 1302 bios. Currently on the 2103 and thats when i started having problems.

My only advice, is once you have a stable system, leave it alone and forget bios updates.

 

[phillyman36]

I just updated to the latest windows build and so far no reboots. Will see how it goes
Window 10 July 14, 2020—KB4565503 (OS Build 19041.388)

 

[phillyman36]

Spoke too soon going back to 1302 bios lol

 

[Markfw]

BTW, since this thread started as my problem with my 3900x, did everybody catch the problem solution ? The motherboard has 2 CPU connectors, and the PSU only had one. When I changed to a PSU with 2 CPU power connectors all the problems went away ! And now for weeks with no problems at 100% load 24/7.

 

[phillyman36]

BTW, since this thread started as my problem with my 3900x, did everybody catch the problem solution ? The motherboard has 2 CPU connectors, and the PSU only had one. When I changed to a PSU with 2 CPU power connectors all the problems went away ! And now for weeks with no problems at 100% load 24/7.

Would a bios update cause me to require needing to use both cpu power connectors? I had the 3900x since it first came out. only problems I had was memory would cause problems when running XMP profile. After a bios update or 2 it was fine until recently.

 

[Chicken76]

BTW, since this thread started as my problem with my 3900x, did everybody catch the problem solution ? The motherboard has 2 CPU connectors, and the PSU only had one. When I changed to a PSU with 2 CPU power connectors all the problems went away ! And now for weeks with no problems at 100% load 24/7.

Are you using the GPU too? Because for a while the problems seemed to go away when you didn't load the GPU.

 

[Markfw]

Would a bios update cause me to require needing to use both cpu power connectors? I had the 3900x since it first came out. only problems I had was memory would cause problems when running XMP profile. After a bios update or 2 it was fine until recently.

Its possible tat the bios was pushing it harder, so yes maybe.

 

[Markfw]

Are you using the GPU too? Because for a while the problems seemed to go away when you didn't load the GPU.

It was a little later. When it started having problems again, I switched PSU's and then never had it again.