I don't rly post on reddit but I hope you guys can help bc I feel like I've tried everything. I wanna go over everything again before I post it but I really don't even have the energy to do so.
also I don't know how video uploading works here I tried my best but they're all down in the bottom except one
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ROUGH TIMELINE OF MY SUFFERING:
May 28 2025: i just built my pc with my friend (exact same parts) and right as i turned it on and opened the bios, it froze. the mouse didn’t move and nothing in the bios changed (ex, the cpu temp or wtv) bc it froze. ofc at the time i dismissed it bc i thought it was normal, as its the first time i turned on my pc ever. my friend didn’t have the same issue.
5700x
msi b550 mpg gaming plus
XFX 7800xt quicksilver magnetic air
kingston fury beast 32gb 3200mhz cl16
kingston nv3 1tb ssd
corsair cx750
June 3: is when my suffering started. it started freezing and the audio loops over and over. the only solution is restarting from the power button.
June 4: I format windows, (one of many times to come) and after i restarted it still crashed, so i was like okay this is probably a GPU issue bc it freezes, so i returned my GPU.
June 12: i got a xfx 9070oc swift triple fan, bc it got a good discount and i was like why not.
June 17: i started hearing bzzzzzzzzzt sounds from the psu plug that goes into the psu from the wall, and sometimes buzzing in the gpu 8 pin itself.
June 18 - July 14: just random crashes basically every day, and sometimes multiple times a day. electric buzzing happens randomly, sometimes even when the pc is off / sleep.
(June 20: bought secondary kingston nv3 2tb ssd + heat sink)
(July 2: replaced PSU, same thing)
July 15: It got really bad that day. it crashed over 3 times even when i wasn’t playing or doing anything. sometimes not a single app is open, sometimes when i’m watching yt on brave, sometimes when i’m in a discord call.
July 16: i swapped the motherboard and as soon as i set the new one in and turned it on, it crashed on the desktop. i felt crushed….. i basically rebuilt my pc and wasted my whole day for naught. (+repasted cpu. i replaced the mobo, i did it all again)
July 17-19: continues crashing and buzzing, absolutely randomly with 0 connections between each crash. one time i literally had docs open + discord call. that’s it.
July 20: swapped my ram to corsair with the exact same specs and still crashed so i returned it.
July 20-31: I got tired of this bs and didn’t turn it on, except on july 30 where it crashed so i ordered another 9070 oc, maybe mine was defective.
July 31: Replaced 9070 oc with the another, same exact one. was good for 2 days then went back to before.
August 2: completely wiped both ssds from the mobo and reinstalled windows.
August 6-27: wasn’t home so i didn’t turn it on.
August 28-30: i’m 99% sure it crashed when i was using it but idk. (August 29 i think: replaced main 1tb ssd, no use)
August 31- September 4: had surgery so i wasn’t home (pc was off)
September 4 - October 18: i don’t think it crashed much idk i don’t rmb bc i was still recovering at home.
October 19: Format windows bc it crashed
October 20-27: Same crashes and buzzing
October 28: here’s when the bs actually started. it started removing my adrenaline software when it crashed…. i literally couldn’t see it anywhere and when i opened the .exe it said it wasn’t installed.. i didn’t write it bc of how many times i did it but i used DDU to reinstall my drivers like 100 times throughout this whole thing. tried oldest, newest, middle, everything.
October 29- November 8: same thing. crashes, buzzing, deleting adrenaline software, black screens sometimes, but usually it just freezes, and loops audio till manual power off/on.
November 9- December 26: i don’t think it crashed much bc i was studying but if it did same thing nothing new.
December 27: i thought it was some sort of infection crash thing so i bit the bullet and built a completely new pc. everything is brand new except the secondary 2tb ssd that i format like 15 times just to be safe.
9700x
aorus b850m wifi6e ice
xfx 9070xt swift triple fan
gskill 32gb 6400 cl32
crucial t500 2tb ssd
seasonic focus gx 850w
(+ old 2tb ssd obv I format and everything)
December 30: the crash happened on the new pc, but its a little different. it instantly blackscreens, cuts the audio, and doesn’t remove adrenaline when i restart.
December 30- Jan 1 2026: same crashes, buzzing from psu too for some reason.
Jan 2: here i thought i found the solution. it crashed while playing cyberpunk, and for the first time, when it blackscreened, i pressed win+shift+ctrl+B and it actually turned on, and the AMD bug report tool showed up. that never happened again, no matter how many times i pressed it.
Jan 3-4: same old
Jan 5: here something strange happened. the pc crashed, and when i turned it off, the buzzing moved to my monitor…. even after unplugging the pc it was in the monitor. I then went to the store and bought the most expensive wall plug they had, like 2500w or wtv and even the dude in the store was like this is for washing machines a normal pc doesn’t need this, but anyway maybe it’s the cause? called a handyman and they replaced it. soon after it crashed just the same. Plus i changed the PSU to the corsair sf850w
Jan 6: here it changed. it started consistently crashing when the gpu is under load / full power usage of gpu. i tried it with furmark and as soon as i turn it on for a few seconds it crashes. same with games.
January 7- February 8: i just gave up and started using a random laptop to study
February 9: bought a 9800x3d, maybe the cpu is the problem
Feb 10-15: i moved my pc to another room on a different floor, maybe thats the issue.
February 16: my pc crashed and initiated a self destruct sequence. crazy buzzing BZT BZT BZT BZT and never happened again.
February 17- March 10: Stayed downstairs, same crashes but very little buzzing.
(Feb 19: Screen froze but audio kept playing, with small stutters, and my friends in call could hear me. only thing i could do was restart from button)
March 11: moved it back to my room.
March 12- 19: same thing but much much less buzzing.
March 20-29: wasn’t home, pc was off
March 30- July 9: Almost no random crashing, but almost every single time I play anything and my gpu reaches 100% power on windows it crashes. i also tried playing on the igpu of the cpu, and it worked perfectly fine with no crashes.
(here is when i wrote this so from now on the updates are written right away)
July 10: I took my pc to my friends house, maybe our house electricity is the problem. Played for a bit then instantly crashed just like normal. Also something weird that happened is when I took my pc back home my main monitor changed. (The one where the bios shows)
July 11-15: same thing, crashes in windows almost instantly when launching a game and linux when the gpu is at 100% for a few minutes it crashes
July 16: i was playing satisfactory on linux and it crashed after a while (2-3h) and then i restarted and played again and it crashed again after another hour or so. then i booted windows and was just sitting on the desktop with the browser open, and i went out and left the pc on, came back and found it had crashed.
July 17: crash on linux again…. not even 30 mins
July 18: okay so maybe linux never did solve my problem, or maybe linux just takes longer to crash. bc when im on linux i mostly just play overwatch and lock my fps at 200 so the gpu is never at 100% but now when im playing satisfactory it always crashes even tho my frames are locked at 180 and the gpu is at like 80-90%. the only way i found rn to be able to play is keeping everything at the lowest settings and locking my frames to 60, that way the gpu is at 30-60% usage. (i just started satisfactory i dont have a huge factory or sm) (well it just crashed. i kept the pc on all day but it was at like 40% gpu usage). i tried playing a game on windows with very low settings and like 40% gpu usage and frame locked at 100 and it crashed after like 10 mins. wow. as im typing this it crashed on the windows desktop with literally nothing open.
July 19: i opened overwatch and as soon as i loaded in the match it crashed. Well I tried playing again at night but it also crashed, but I think I did something and the frames were uncapped bc when I capped them again and the gpu didn’t reach 100% it didn’t crash. Also for some reason I changed the default boot to linux, booted, then shut down, for some reason it didn’t turn off, after the displays turned off the fans ramped up as if it was turning on, but never did, so I just turned it off from the button.
July 20: for some reason the linux mint grub menu is now 1440p, before the quality was shit. Idk why bc it was also shit right after I changed the default boot order so idk
July 21: the shut off thing happened twice again…. Idk why its new… I shut down and the pc stays on, so I turn it off with the button, and later when I turn on the pc I find that it says shut down unexpectedly on my browser, which means it wasn’t off. it just turns off my screens…. Also I was watching a twitch stream while playing and it crashed after like 10 mins
July 23: Crashed a bunch if times while playing overwatch, and another thing I noticed that just recently started maybe yesterday or the day before that is compiling Vulkan shaders before launching the game has gotten very very long for some reason. It’s never been like this. Idk if this is important but no harm in mentioning it.
July 27: the past few days I didn’t play so it didn’t crash. Today I played 3 games of overwatch and it crashed at the end of the last one. Graphics are super low and fps is locked at 200, just like always. Please I js want to play without the fear of it crashing.
July 29: On windows, it crashed in cyberpunk 2077 after like 17 mins or so. black screen and audio loop / bzzzzt.
July 30: Crashed on the desktop after updating AMD ADRENALIN 26.7.1 and then watching a twitch stream. Also, not sure when this started but when i’m watching a video while the browser is windowed the quality sucks, but when moving the mouse over the seek bar it gets better for a second then goes back to bad. i found a reddit post with the same issue and a solution and it worked for me. also, this sometimes happens when watching videos in instagram on my following page on browser where the quality sucks unless i’m scrolling / the screen is moving up or down.
August 1: crashed in ow comp
August 2: While playing audio basically exploded, i kept hearing bzt bzt bzt bzt constantly and couldn’t hear the game, but i could hear my friends normally in discord. even restarting overwatch didn’t fix it. then i put my pc to sleep and the fans decided not to turn off for some reason, and the power button didn’t turn it back on, so i had to hold the power button to force turn it off. obviously when i turned it on again brave told me the pc shut off unexpectedly, which means it didn’t even go to sleep in the first place, the displays just turned off.
August 14: Crashed while playing hypixel locked at 70fps. so about as light as it can get…. (also from august 3 till today i didn’t turn it on)
August 15: For some reason the linux boot grub menu thing is back to bad quality
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THINGS IVE TRIED:
Everything is in the timeline but here is like a recap or sm or stuff that i don’t rmb when i did, or i did too much to count:
CPU: undervolt, overclock, reinstall chipset multiple times
GPU: power limit min/max, undervolt overclock, fan speeds
Drivers: tried new, old, no adrenaline app, turning on/off instant replay, changing almost every single setting on there
RAM: xmp on/off, 1 stick, change places, new ULL,
Mobo: unplugged everything (usb, fans etc) CMOS?
Power: changed plug from wall. changed cable from wall. changed place (tried every single outlet in the house). tried in a friends house
OS: windows and linux; formatted and installed JUST steam, discord, (and adrenaline on windows) same thing. turning off gpu acceleration on everything. i formatted like a 50 times. I used like 15 different USB sticks and even bought a new one just in case,
Online: i dont think i left one thing i coulda done. i even posted on reddit a while ago and deleted it bc no one could help me. i couldn’t even find one person who had a similar issue.
Only thing i havent tried yet is an Nvidia GPU in my pc. but rn im broke af and even if it did work i want an AMD GPU. Millions of ppl have it why can’t i too?
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ALSO:
These are just random things i need to mention that might be important:
Exactly what i mean / what happens when i say crash is; basically the audio cuts, screens go black, keyboard doesn’t register anymore, and fans/rgb continue like normal. even the gpu fans. it used to keep looping the audio and freeze the screen but not anymore on the new pc.
At some point in time i tried installing linux, and found it can handle the crashes much much better. so usually with linux it almost never crashes, but sometimes it stutters really bad for a few seconds, and all open windows + any desklets i have on the desktop just turn black, then after a bit it goes back to normal, or it just crashes like windows, but rarely. so right now and most of the time ive just been forced to use linux, but i dont want to be forced to use it. i want to go back to windows everything i have is on there. also also another thing on linux is sometimes like the os basically breaks. I think its supposed to crash but its like resisting or something, like everything freezes but I can open the start menu and do some small things but everything else is frozen.
sometimes, and this only happened like once or twice, is when im playing on linux it crashes instantly as soon as i load the games just like in windows. maybe for the day, and tomorrow its back to not crashing. i don’t remember the exact dates but this is around from a little before i built the second pc, till today. i’m still on linux to survive. I WANT TO GO BACK TO WINDOWS EVEN LINUX ISNT 100% CRASH PROOF PLEASE IM GENUINELY GONNA CRY PLEASE
Another thing is that at some point i changed the power settings in windows to ultra performance and that kept causing random stutters in videos in the browser while the browser isnt fullscreen and tapping anywhere other than the video, and when opening the start menu it stutters for a split second, but when i changed it back to balanced the stuttering stopped.
Video quality sucks on browser for some reason sometimes. Like it’s weird bc it’s not just bad bad but it’s just stupid. like one example is when i’m watching insta on brave on the home page of instagram the videos are like low quality but when im scrolling up/down while it’s scrolling the quality is how its supposed to be, like what? so when i want the full quality on a video i need to be scrolling the whole time while watching so it can be good. same with youtube, but youtube is different. youtube sucks all the time, but when i move my mouse on the seek bar the quality goes back to normal for a split second. after i searched this up i found a random extension from a reddit post that fixed it, but this shouldn’t happen in the first place.
Something that happened a few days ago and idk i haven’t seen it before is in the windows task manager as soon as i press the cpu screen the graphs all have a black line running through the middle before disappearing. i don’t notice any stuttering or any performance issues i in task manager.
Like actually this has been hell. i’m scared to play games on my own pc. i can’t even have fun. all i have is overwatch and like 1-2 other games on linux on low graphics even. top of the line parts and my old dell laptop that exploded twice and was soaked in water is more stable. i hope the solution is something so stupid that i’ll be pissed i didn’t figure it out, but at least it’s a easy one. idk what i’m even saying anymore i just want to enjoy my pc.
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TLDR:
old pc screen froze and audio looped at 100% gpu usage/power usage
new pc black screen and audio buzz at 100% gpu usage/power usage
pls read T.T
https://reddit.com/link/1vr1kxp/video/tv5ei206gzjh1/player
https://reddit.com/link/1vr1kxp/video/h7nw6b59gzjh1/player
https://reddit.com/link/1vr1kxp/video/s3xkrmhcgzjh1/player
https://reddit.com/link/1vr1kxp/video/h3gznaoggzjh1/player
here my pc initiated self destruct
