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Why does my PC keep crashing under load ?
i5 6400
rx 480
530W PSU
My PC blue screen whenever I play a game. The blue screen says " critical process died" or "karnel data inpage error"
sfc, dism, discs and ram scanned and good, gpu drivers reinstalled with DDU, page file ON or OFF no difference, pc doesn't wake up from sleep with 2 ram sticks in so I use only one. I tried to change slots for ram but no difference.
Event viewer shows error 41 and 161, no minidump files are being created.
HDD spins down quite often when gaming, system runs of SSD, right before crash ssd usage maxes out and after 2 mins it blue screens.
I really have no idea what could it be I'm dealing with it for a year now I bought new RAM because the previous sticks game me errors during scans but that did not help.
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530W might be insufficient if your GPU and CPU are under load, especially if the PSU is aging or of lower quality. Consider testing with a higher wattage, high-quality PSU if possible. Use HWMonitor or MSI Afterburner to check CPU and GPU temps under load. Overheating can cause crashes.
Update the BIOS driver and graphics card driver, and check the hardware temperature.
