Question Random crashes and occasional black screen after changing Motherboard, CPU and RAM.

[Grekman]

Hello. Recently I upgraded my machine from an old h110m asrock mobo and an i5 6500 intel cpu, to a Ryzen 3600X and a B550 Aorus Elite v.2 . When I first booted up the system, it ran a chkdsk on its own on my SSD, and it "fixed" some seemingly corrupt files. It booted in windows without any formats or manual changes whatsoever on my part.

After a few seconds of logging in and landing on the desktop, my screen goes black and I have to pull out and reconnect my HDMI cable on to my GPU. Otherwise it'll stay black.
In games that I played many times before the upgrade, my pc occasionally (once or twice per day) goes BSOD and crashes. My screen sometimes while playing, goes black and changes my games from Fullscreen to Windowed mode on its own, and yet again I have to disconnect and reconnect my HDMI cable on my GPU to be able to fix the black screen. This happens especially when I play with my resolution options in games.

My GPU never had such problems before, so I think it is directly related to the upgrade of the other parts.
I was thinking I should format my windows to clean up any "bad" drivers that could be causing these issues...What do you think is the source of the problem?

 

[Ralston18]

PSU: make, model, wattage, age, condition (original to build, new, refurbished, used)?

History of heavy use for gaming, video editing or even bit-mining?

Look in Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer for error codes, warnings, or even informational events logged just before or at the time of the BSODs,

Start with Reliability Monitor. Much more end user friendly and the timeline format may reveal some pattern.

Event Viewer requires more time and effort to navigate and learn. To help:

How To - How to use Windows 10 Event Viewer | Tom's Hardware Forum (tomshardware.com)

My overall thought being that the new components are now requiring more wattage than what the PSU can support. Both in total wattage and/or peak spikes.

Increasing numbers of errors and varying errors make the PSU suspect.

 

[Grekman]

PSU: make, model, wattage, age, condition (original to build, new, refurbished, used)?

History of heavy use for gaming, video editing or even bit-mining?

Look in Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer for error codes, warnings, or even informational events logged just before or at the time of the BSODs,

Start with Reliability Monitor. Much more end user friendly and the timeline format may reveal some pattern.

Event Viewer requires more time and effort to navigate and learn. To help:

How To - How to use Windows 10 Event Viewer | Tom's Hardware Forum (tomshardware.com)

My overall thought being that the new components are now requiring more wattage than what the PSU can support. Both in total wattage and/or peak spikes.

Increasing numbers of errors and varying errors make the PSU suspect.

PSU is a Silverstone 500W 80+ Bronze plus. It was brand new in 2016 when I bought it. Now it has gone through 7 years of heavy gaming.

The Reliability monitor mentions error 3b. From my search, it is an error related to the GPU and possibly RAM as well. My RAM is fresh out of the box, barely a few days old. My GPU is 7 years old. I am suspecting that indeed, as you say, my system cannot handle intensely heavy loads anymore due to the increased demands from the upgrade.

I have used Display Driver Uninstaller to completely uninstall my GTX 1060 3GB Palit's drivers and to reinstall them anew. Thus far, I have had no black screen or crashes after two separate PC startups. If I do, I'm thinking of undervolting my GPU and to test if this will help the issue.

 

[zx128k]

Are you using a new fresh install of windows? You have gone from an intel system to an amd one. You need to Reset Windows 11 just to be sure. I have got from an Intel system to an amd one and then to an intel system. All with the same windows install. You have to be sure you uninstall all the old drivers.

Reinstalling the GPU driver is a good idea and hopefully that has fixed the issue.

 

[Ralston18]

This:

"PSU is a Silverstone 500W 80+ Bronze plus. It was brand new in 2016 when I bought it. Now it has gone through 7 years of heavy gaming."

Based on both the PSU itself and the described history (6 - 7 years old) my thought is that the PSU is near or at its' designed in EOL (End of Life).

In otherwords, the PSU may no longer be able to provide the power being demanded by host system. Either directly in terms of measured wattage and/or indirectly by no longer being able to fully respond to sudden peaks or changes in wattage demand.

Remember that PSUs provide 3 different voltages (3, 5, and 12) to host system components. A problem with respect to any given voltage can and does wreak havoc on system components.

If at all possible swap in another known working PSU with higher wattage and good reviews.

FYI:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-psus,4229.html

Not with the immediate intend to go purchase a new PSU.

Objective simply being to help assess the current PSU's state.

= = = =

Also: manually download all drivers directly from the applicable manufacturer's website. Reinstall and reconfigure the drivers as applicable. No third party installers or similar tools.

 

[zx128k]

This:

"PSU is a Silverstone 500W 80+ Bronze plus. It was brand new in 2016 when I bought it. Now it has gone through 7 years of heavy gaming."

Based on both the PSU itself and the described history (6 - 7 years old) my thought is that the PSU is near or at its' designed in EOL (End of Life).

In otherwords, the PSU may no longer be able to provide the power being demanded by host system. Either directly in terms of measured wattage and/or indirectly by no longer being able to fully respond to sudden peaks or changes in wattage demand.

Remember that PSUs provide 3 different voltages (3, 5, and 12) to host system components. A problem with respect to any given voltage can and does wreak havoc on system components.

If at all possible swap in another known working PSU with higher wattage and good reviews.

FYI:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-psus,4229.html

Not with the immediate intend to go purchase a new PSU.

Objective simply being to help assess the current PSU's state.

= = = =

Also: manually download all drivers directly from the applicable manufacturer's website. Reinstall and reconfigure the drivers as applicable. No third party installers or similar tools.

That PSU could very well be End of Life.