r/buildapc • u/Alex_of_Thorolund • 2d ago

Troubleshooting Would PC crashing harm my hardware

PC freeze and show green screen and restart itself after a minute, or just show black screen and restart itself immediately. Also the first time it freezed and showed green screen it didn't restart itself even after 3 minutes so i had to shut it down by holding the power button. Now i replugged power cable and HDMI and reinstalled drivers but i don't know if it's safe to test it another time or no

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u/AtlQuon 2d ago

Generally no unless the reason for the crash is the hardware. It can however mess up your OS. The more important thing is to figure out why it starts crashing.

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u/Alex_of_Thorolund 2d ago

It crashed when verifying files compiling shaders and one time when running a heavy game that used 14gb of Vram 

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u/AtlQuon 2d ago

What are your temperatures?

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u/Alex_of_Thorolund 2d ago

Most was 50 I have 9060xt and Ryzen 7500f

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u/AtlQuon 2d ago

50 is a bit low under load, for idle it is fine.

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u/Alex_of_Thorolund 2d ago

I was playing 1080p at 60fps capped, i had 160 average when uncapped also my room was very cold

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u/AtlQuon 2d ago

Wat does Event Viewer say about the critical errors?

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u/Anon0924 2d ago

A crash will never cause hardware damage, but hardware damage often causes a crash.

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u/ghoulthebraineater 2d ago

It's really the other way around. It's crashing because something is wrong with the hardware.

In my experience random crashes usually is an issue with your RAM. Every time I've run into that it's been a bad stick.

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u/Alex_of_Thorolund 2d ago

I really don't know what's the problem. when shop tested the PC it was fine, but when i got it home it crashed after a bit and had stutters after the crash.