Computer Issues

Kirun said:

Nope. All my sleep and hibernation power saving settings are off.

The fact that it doesn't happen while actively playing games, browsing the web, etc. is where I'm stumped, because that rules out some of the more obvious things like PSU, CPU, MB, etc. I mean, I can alleviate it by just turning my PC off every night, but it's just a huge WTF.

Tried rolling back the latest Windows Update and I was still able to reproduce it.

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BIOS up to date? Trying clearing CMOS, maybe test it with one stick of RAM to rule out any weird memory issues. Couldn’t hurt to reseat and repaste the CPU if it’s fairly old. Failing that, reformat and reinstall windows.

slippery said:

Do you by chance have extra cables or slots on your power supply that you could try for your GPU? Is the CPU stuff seated well?

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I swapped both my GPU and all my CPU cooling this weekend. New cooler, new paste, reseated the heat sink, etc. Temps under load and idle are slightly better now, but watching HWMonitor, temps were never an issue even before - unless it was happening in a "low power" state.

McQueen said:

BIOS up to date? Trying clearing CMOS, maybe test it with one stick of RAM to rule out any weird memory issues. Couldn’t hurt to reseat and repaste the CPU if it’s fairly old. Failing that, reformat and reinstall windows.

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BIOS was my next try. I updated BIOS last March?, I think. It hasn't been updated crazy recent, but looking at it I'm only out of date by 2 updates.

I'm also going to run a memtest before the BIOS update, just on the off-chance it's happening during idle memory cleanup.

If the BIOS thing doesn't fix it, reformatting was my next go-to.