Computer locking up when playing games/stressed

KirinShowcase · 01 Oct 2015

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My computer has been locking up recently. It seems fine until I start to put strain onto the system. This is usually done by me playing games. At first I thought it was heat and noticed my processor getting up there in temp. I went out and bought a new case and a new liquid cooling system (Something that needed to be done anyway). As I monitored over the next few days the freezing didn't stop, but my temperatures were a lot better. I did a complete reinstall of windows onto my HDD's to make sure it wasn't a driver. I did HDD's checks and nothing showed up. My next step was checking the ram. After running for 8 hours on each stick, then together, nothing showed up as an issue. I pulled out each piece to test everything, but like I said it only happens when I seem to put strain on the system. I tested both my graphics cards and I thought one was causing the issue, but it freezes on both. At this point I am at a lose as to what it could be. My thought is it might be the motherboard, but I am not sure. So I ask to you all, why is my computer locking up?

My system specs :
Motherboard- Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
Processor - AMD 9590
Ram- Corsair Vengeance 8GB x 2
GPU - AMD R9 290x x2
Power Supply - Rosewill Lightening 1300w
Liquid CPU Cooler - Corsair Hydro H100i GTX
HDD- Wester Digital 1TB
Wester Digital 2TB
SDD- Sandisk 120GB
Case- Cooler Master HAF X
Wireless Card - TP link WDN4800
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I looked in my event viewer and am seeing a lot of errors.

axe0 · 01 Oct 2015

Hi KirinShowcase,

Welcome to the 10forums.

You are missing a driver for the TP-LINK Wireless PCI Express Adapter what caused a few crashes.
Please check here for drivers.

Code:

*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for athrx.sys
*** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for athrx.sys

KirinShowcase · 01 Oct 2015

Depending on when that was I had just recently reinstalled that from the TP-Link site.

axe0 · 01 Oct 2015

Please check the device manager for the network adapters.
Yours

Code:

Name    [00000000] TP-LINK Wireless PCI Express Adapter
Adapter Type    Not Available
Product Type    TP-LINK Wireless PCI Express Adapter
Installed    Yes
PNP Device ID    Not Available
Last Reset    10/1/2015 12:38 AM
Index    0
Service Name    athr
IP Address    Not Available
IP Subnet    Not Available
Default IP Gateway    Not Available
DHCP Enabled    Yes
DHCP Server    Not Available
DHCP Lease Expires    Not Available
DHCP Lease Obtained    Not Available
MAC Address    Not Available

How it should look like

Code:

Name	[00000007] ASUS PCE-AC68 802.11ac Network Adapter
Adapter Type	Ethernet 802.3
Product Type	ASUS PCE-AC68 802.11ac Network Adapter
Installed	Yes
PNP Device ID	PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_43A0&SUBSYS_85DF1043&REV_03\54A000FFFF00000000
Last Reset	9/30/2015 4:19 PM
Index	7
Service Name	BCM43XX
IP Address	192.168.0.7, fe80::64b0:6ebc:590b:1d83, 2605:6001:e155:c100::1
IP Subnet	255.255.255.0, 64, 128
Default IP Gateway	192.168.0.1
DHCP Enabled	Yes
DHCP Server	192.168.0.1
DHCP Lease Expires	9/30/2015 5:49 PM
DHCP Lease Obtained	9/30/2015 4:49 PM
MAC Address	54:A0:50:70:B0:22
Memory Address	0xF7A00000-0xF7A07FFF
Memory Address	0xF7800000-0xF79FFFFF
IRQ Channel	IRQ 16
Driver	c:\windows\system32\drivers\bcmwl664.sys (6.30.223.228, 7.70 MB (8,071,888 bytes), 8/5/2015 8:39 PM)