Computer Crash investigation

Good afternoon, I’m hoping someone here may be of help.
My computer randomly crashes while I am playing various games and I’m running out of ideas why this could be. What makes this issue stranger is that I had the SAME issue happing on the system I had before this one! It would shut off at random while playing games. And when I say shut off I mean, completely go black. Just off. No warning, No boot down phase, No blue screen, just “Hello Darkness my old friend.”

So to start, to get information on why this may I went into Event Viewer. And what I’ve found at the time of each shutdown is, Event 6008; “The previous system shutdown at 6:21:39 PM on ‎4/‎11/‎2024 was unexpected.”

…however, before that is no warnings, critical, nothing that would explain why.

I have noticed though a pattern on events that will proceed the Event 6008, they are in this order, “Even 7040, 12, 153, 18, 32, 20, 238, 25, 27, 30, 20, 16” and then…6008.

They are all listed at “Information” level and google searches pretty much say, they’re ok. But, maybe not?

I’ve made sure that my BIOS is up to date as well as all of my drivers.

I’ve actually done an entire factory reset on the device and only installed the updates and world of warcraft.

I’ve removed the 1 single piece of hardware that was in both devices (My desktop now and the laptop before) that randomly crash “The NMVe SSD”

I’ve monitored the temps to see if maybe this was an overheating issue and nothing has gotten too hot.

I’ve also disabled C-State in the bios. to prevent any unwanted undervolting.
Ill also mention I do not overlock or undervolt in any way.

I’m not sure why I could be missing obviously. Again, I think it’s odd that 2 very capable machines would be having this same issue which makes me doubt it’s a hardware issue but a software issue.

Are you using the same PSU from the previous system?

I had considered the PSU. However, this is unlikely as the first computer was a laptop. I had not used the same PSU.

The only common denominators between the two builds have been, the nvme SSD and the windows account that I log into.

That being said, I’ve removed the NMVe SSD from the desktop…is it possible the nvme may have done something to the PSU while it was in the machine? I wouldn’t think so…but maybe?

Usually an unexpected shutdown is due to overheating. There are a number of ways to find out if you’re thermal throttling. Intel Extreme Tuning Utility or AMD Ryzen Master Utility might help you.

It looks like my GPU overheating is the issue.
The reason why it looked like it was not was due to when I had MSI afterburner running, I only would have GPU1 show. However when I turned on GPU2 this is where I saw that there were hot spots reaching 112c. After seeing this I was able to consistently recreate the crashes.

Check with Tom’s Hardware. There’s an article there which may shed some light on the problem with GPU’s running hot. Front page.

Haha I was going to suggest MSI afterburner with the On-screen display while you were gaming but went the other route instead. Hopefully it’s an issue fixed with canned air.

In the end, I ended up swapping the AMD 6900 XT with my wife’s 3080 ti.
The 6900 XT isn’t overheating in her build and the 3080 ti isn’t overheating in mine.

problem solved forever…

If anyone else down the road has this problem, the solution is trade with your wife.

I had a dual fan 4060 that ran pretty hot, so I invested in a triple fan PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 7700 XT that was designed to run cool. 0 regrets. I had to evict my HDD bays from the front of my case to get the new card to fit. Also 0 regrets in regard to that. I use MSI Afterburner for a toggleable FPS and temps display of my CPU and GPU.

The PC that I had the 6900 xt in that was crashing has an H150I Pro with fans on both sides of the radiator, triple fans on front one on back. It honestly had no business overheating. Now that it’s in my wife’s PC it’s not overheating at all. and the 3080 ti i took from hers is doing fine in mine.

I unno

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