Computer Issue. Currently troubleshooting.
So, the short of it is that I'm currently getting random freezes ever couple of hours, followed by the PC shutting itself off, and then restarting fine on it's own. Event Viewer is unsurprisingly giving me little to work off. WHEA-Logger event ID 1 and Kernal Power 41 being the main two.
So, basically it's seemingly hardware related currently. I've stress/torture tested the CPU and GPUs and both ran fine with no errors. The three immediate guesses I have right now is RAM (will run a memtest later today, which means no working on MTC. >_>), the NVMe/Boot drive, and maybe something like RGB software being their usually buggy selves. The PSU was fine with the stress tests, so I don't think its that. And I'd think the motherboard would've shown issues at that point as well.
I'm leaning toward the NVMe going bad. It's a teamgroup SSD I scavenged from someone's prebuilt, and it's currently at 50% life left (after getting it at 98%. This following times I've started renders, went away for a while, and came back to the PC in the bios with the drive not being recognized/seen until I did a full/hard reboot. Though it hadn't for at least several months prior to the day before yesterday. Looks like a new NVMe might be needed. Hopefully I'll be able to just clone the current drive to another without much issue.
Anyways, I just wanted to keep you guys updated on what's happening. Hopefully this won't lead to any delays, but I can't say for certain right now. Sorry. :(
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if you have the 40 series nvidia check your power wiring on the card they have a problem with frying/melting. there's a bunch of youtube videos about how some cables can't handle the current flow and its too much. they explain how to fix it better than i could.
Yeah an NVMe down at 50%, that's not good. If you do a MEMTEST with more than 1 pair of ram modules, do the tests with only 1 pair on at a time.
