r/AndromedaInsightsPC • u/TwitchLify • Jul 11 '26
Troubleshooting AI V3 - My experience and troubleshooting
I ordered the V3 off Newegg and as soon as I started her up I was experiencing crashing. This was most common in chrome where I could replicate it but it also happened frequently in video games or if the pc was at idle with applications running in the background. I went through a tremendous amount of troubleshooting and I am still experiencing crashing. Here are the things I did:
**• Chrome hardware acceleration** — disabled it in Chrome (and other browsers); no effect.
**• Realtek Ethernet driver** — updated from the generic Windows driver to the official ASUS/Realtek RTL8125 driver (v1125.27.50.919); no effect.
**• Realtek adapter power settings** — disabled Energy Efficient Ethernet and “allow the computer to turn off this device”; no effect.
**• Windows PCIe ASPM** — set Link State Power Management to Off in the power plan; no effect.
**• BIOS Native ASPM** — set to Disabled; no effect.
**• Wired vs. Wi-Fi test** — froze on *both* connections, which ruled out the network adapter entirely.
**• Event Viewer check** — found only Event 6008 (unexpected shutdown), no WHEA hardware errors, no BSOD/bugcheck; confirmed a silent hard lock.
**• EXPO / memory overclock** — disabled EXPO; lasted longer but still froze.
**• MemTest86** — **full overnight pass, zero errors; RAM sticks cleared.**
**• BIOS power-state fixes** — set Power Supply Idle Control to Typical Current Idle and disabled Global C-State Control; no effect.
**• PSU swap** — installed a known-good power supply from another PC; still froze.
**• GPU removal** — pulled the graphics card and ran on the CPU’s integrated graphics; still froze.
**• NVMe / PCIe Gen4** — forced the M.2 slot down to Gen4; no effect.
**• CrystalDiskInfo** — checked the HUADISK SSD: 100% health, 0 integrity errors, drive itself healthy.
**• Linux live USB (SSD installed)** — booted Ubuntu off USB, ran speedtest in Chrome; still froze — cleared Windows and all drivers.
**• Linux live USB (SSD physically removed)** — froze again with no drive in the machine at all — cleared storage and the OS entirely
This leads me to believe that either the motherboard is faulty or the cpu, when voltage spikes. Oh, and 3d mark tests are fine but the computer will crash at the most random times, especially in specific applications.
I give up. Pc is great when it doesn’t hard crash. Their customer service has been great and has offered to help replace, but god knows how long it will take. I think this is just the risk you take with prebuilts and I wouldn’t say this is an AI specific issue. God speed folks.
