ok ignore my advicego all overboard and reinvent the wheel lol
all i know is my PC did the same ,took it in to a professional shop ,they found its the PSU
never had a problem again
you say all your hardware seems alright ... how do you know ? how did you test the PSU?
anyway , carry on
Sorry, I didn't mean to ignore you and I do appreciate the helpful suggestion but I honestly don't think my issue is with the psu. I know I didn't mention it in my first message but prior to asking for help I did run stress tests on the hardware such as OCCT, cinebench and memtest and had no issues. I'm certain the OCCT test would have crashed if the psu was acting up.
And my frustration has just peaked. Last night before going to bed I did a repair install, everything went fine but unfortunately it did not help and the pc was still freezing up and randomly crashing and rebooting. So this morning I finally said to hell with it and did a fresh OS install but chose to keep my files. And that also didn't work as it froze up on me a couple of times while web browsing with firefox. So now I am doing a full reset, wiping the C drive along with all my files, though I did manage to back up the important things that I didn't want to lose. I just don't get it, yesterday I played Civ V for a few hours with no problems, I have ran stress tests with no errors, ran memtest for hours and had no errors but as soon as I try to do some web browsing or the computer sits idle it either freezes up or crashes and reboots, most often with no bsod.
When I was running the OCCT stress test I also had hwinfo64 running and I was keeping an eye on temps and voltages. Over the 15 minute test the 12V rail averaged 11.905, the 5V rail was just a touch over 5V so the psu is well within spec. I'm not saying it still can't be the source of my problem as I just had another freeze-up with a completely fresh OS install. But I really think I would get crashes with more intensive loads if it was the culprit.
I am going to drain the system, tear it down and re-seat everything. Then I will test the PSU with a multimeter to double check the readings I was getting from hwinfo before putting things back together. It is a Seasonic Focus Plus Series Ssr-850fx 850w psu and was purchased in July 2022 so it's only year and half old.
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I remembered I have a Tt Dr.Power II psu tester so I put it to use. It shows my psu is fine, all rails are normal.
The DPC watchdog timeout period for the subcode (0x1) in your crashes is 2 minutes. Are you usually immediately forcing the computer off when a freeze occurs? If so, you might want to wait a bit more than 2 minutes to see if the system bluescreens.
Did you update to the latest BIOS for your motherboard, as suggested?
Have you checked to see if there's a VBIOS update for your GPU?
I did update to the latest bios and I was still having random freezing. Usually when it happened I would only wait maybe 15-30 seconds before manually restarting the system.
I just got the system put back together, I took everything apart and reseated the nvme drives, ram, and gpu. I'm currently in the process of reinstalling drivers, programs and apps but so far I haven't had any more crashes.
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And it just froze up. This time I did not reset and it has been over 5 minutes with no bsod. I don't get it, this is so frustrating.
Freezes/hangs are typically the hardest to diagnose. Can you try setting up a manual crash dump keyboard shortcut using the instructions here, restart the computer, and then use it to try and generate a dump file the next time it hangs? It's possible the system is getting so wedged that the shortcut won't work but it's worth a try. You'll also need to set the memory dump type to Complete memory dump and make the C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP file generated available for it to be of any use with a hang. It's a complete dump of physical memory that would allow us to see what the system is doing when the manual crash keyboard shortcut is used. The dump file will be very large but they compress quite well.
I can't believe I actually figured out how to do all that, and hopefully I did everything correctly.
RYZEN5950X-(2023-12-08_16-57-04).zip - Google Drive
MEMORY.zip - Google Drive
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