Benchmark program/s causing my PC to crash?


Citrusflavour01

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I had a problem with my PC crashing regularly until I uninstalled a bunch of programs. I fixed the issue by uninstalling a bunch of programs and changing a lot of settings some time ago. Funny enough, after installing MSI afterburner, HWiNFO, HWMONITOR, CPU-Z, Thaiphoon burner, and possibly some other program, My PC crashed for the first time after a while. Could any of these programs cause a crash?
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Windows 11
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    Ryzen 9 5900X
    Motherboard
    GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Pro V2
    Memory
    Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz C16
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ti VENTUS 3X 8G OC
    Screen Resolution
    2560 x 1440
    Hard Drives
    NVMe Gen 4 Sabrent Rocket 1TB (boot)
    NVMe Gen 3 ADATA 512GB (secondary)
    PSU
    RM750x Corsair
    Case
    Corsair CW-9060051
    Cooling
    Corsair iCUE SP120 RGB + iCUE H150i Elite CAPELLIX
    Keyboard
    Logitech G213 PRODIGY
    Mouse
    Logitech G502 Hero
    Browser
    Edge
  • Operating System
    Windows 11
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    Ryzen 5 5600X
    Motherboard
    MAG B550 TOMAHAWK
    Memory
    G.Skill Gaming Memory Ripjaws V 32GB (2x16GB) 3600mhz CL18
    Graphics card(s)
    MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT Mech 2X 4G OC
    Screen Resolution
    1080p
I had a problem with my PC crashing regularly until I uninstalled a bunch of programs. I fixed the issue by uninstalling a bunch of programs and changing a lot of settings some time ago. Funny enough, after installing MSI afterburner, HWiNFO, HWMONITOR, CPU-Z, Thaiphoon burner, and possibly some other program, My PC crashed for the first time after a while. Could any of these programs cause a crash?



Of that list, the only ones that could maybe "cause" a problem would be MSI Afterburner and Thaiphoon.
Those two are really the only ones that can "write" to software and/or your hardware.
But... they shouldn't do anything by themselves. Just installing them shouldn't cause PC crashes.

The others are pretty much, read only programs.




/edit
For example, MSI Afterburner can adjust vid card fan speeds and/or overclock a vid card.
But it shouldn't do that by itself. It would need you to change setting(s), in the program.

So I would think that only Thaiphoon, might be the culprit. I would think it would require the user to "tell" it to fix corrupt
SPD information. But... I don't know if Thaiphoon would attempt a fix, automatically or not.

From Thaiphoon's website... in RED...

This software does not fix hardware failures of RGB-capable DDR4 DRAM modules like Trident Z or Vengeance RGB. But you can use Thaiphoon Burner to restore corrupted SPD content to its original state.


Thaiphoon Burner is like Nitroglycerin. Don't mess with it, unless you know what you're doing. ^^
 
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My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Win 11 Home ♦♦♦22631.3374 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦23H2
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Built by Ghot® [May 2020]
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
    Motherboard
    Asus Pro WS X570-ACE (BIOS 4702)
    Memory
    G.Skill (F4-3200C14D-16GTZKW)
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA RTX 2070 (08G-P4-2171-KR)
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC1220P / ALC S1220A
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell U3011 30"
    Screen Resolution
    2560 x 1600
    Hard Drives
    2x Samsung 860 EVO 500GB,
    WD 4TB Black FZBX - SATA III,
    WD 8TB Black FZBX - SATA III,
    DRW-24B1ST CD/DVD Burner
    PSU
    PC Power & Cooling 750W Quad EPS12V
    Case
    Cooler Master ATCS 840 Tower
    Cooling
    CM Hyper 212 EVO (push/pull)
    Keyboard
    Ducky DK9008 Shine II Blue LED
    Mouse
    Logitech Optical M-100
    Internet Speed
    300/300
    Browser
    Firefox (latest)
    Antivirus
    Bitdefender Internet Security
    Other Info
    Speakers: Klipsch Pro Media 2.1
  • Operating System
    Windows XP Pro 32bit w/SP3
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Built by Ghot® (not in use)
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (OC'd @ 3.2Ghz)
    Motherboard
    ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition
    Memory
    TWIN2X2048-6400C4DHX (2 x 1GB, DDR2 800)
    Graphics card(s)
    EVGA 256-P2-N758-TR GeForce 8600GT SSC
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ViewSonic G90FB Black 19" Professional (CRT)
    Screen Resolution
    up to 2048 x 1536
    Hard Drives
    WD 36GB 10,000rpm Raptor SATA
    Seagate 80GB 7200rpm SATA
    Lite-On LTR-52246S CD/RW
    Lite-On LH-18A1P CD/DVD Burner
    PSU
    PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad EPS12V
    Case
    Generic Beige case, 80mm fans
    Cooling
    ZALMAN 9500A 92mm CPU Cooler
    Mouse
    Logitech Optical M-BT96a
    Keyboard
    Logitech Classic Keybooard 200
    Internet Speed
    300/300
    Browser
    Firefox 3.x ??
    Antivirus
    Symantec (Norton)
    Other Info
    Still assembled, still runs. Haven't turned it on for 13 years?
Of that list, the only ones that could maybe "cause" a problem would be MSI Afterburner and Thaiphoon.
Those two are really the only ones that can "write" to software and/or your hardware.
But... they shouldn't do anything by themselves. Just installing them shouldn't cause PC crashes.

The others are pretty much, read only programs.




/edit
For example, MSI Afterburner can adjust vid card fan speeds and/or overclock a vid card.
But it shouldn't do that by itself. It would need you to change setting(s), in the program.

So I would think that only Thaiphoon, might be the culprit. I would think it would require the user to "tell" it to fix corrupt
SPD information. But... I don't know if Thaiphoon would attempt a fix, automatically or not.

From Thaiphoon's website... in RED...




Thaiphoon Burner is like Nitroglycerin. Don't mess with it, unless you know what you're doing. ^^
I think I found the issue... it might be hardware acceleration in the Microsoft edge settings. I recently changed the setting back to enabled so it might just be that. I will give an update to that asap.
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Windows 11
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    Ryzen 9 5900X
    Motherboard
    GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Pro V2
    Memory
    Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz C16
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ti VENTUS 3X 8G OC
    Screen Resolution
    2560 x 1440
    Hard Drives
    NVMe Gen 4 Sabrent Rocket 1TB (boot)
    NVMe Gen 3 ADATA 512GB (secondary)
    PSU
    RM750x Corsair
    Case
    Corsair CW-9060051
    Cooling
    Corsair iCUE SP120 RGB + iCUE H150i Elite CAPELLIX
    Keyboard
    Logitech G213 PRODIGY
    Mouse
    Logitech G502 Hero
    Browser
    Edge
  • Operating System
    Windows 11
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    Ryzen 5 5600X
    Motherboard
    MAG B550 TOMAHAWK
    Memory
    G.Skill Gaming Memory Ripjaws V 32GB (2x16GB) 3600mhz CL18
    Graphics card(s)
    MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT Mech 2X 4G OC
    Screen Resolution
    1080p
I think I found the issue... it might be hardware acceleration in the Microsoft edge settings. I recently changed the setting back to enabled so it might just be that. I will give an update to that asap.


That's usually the best place to start. The "last" thing you adjusted.
But.... I don't think that would affect the PC. It might cause Edge to crash though.

If you DO want to mess around with the settings under the hood... might want to spend some time, here...

 
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My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Win 11 Home ♦♦♦22631.3374 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦23H2
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Built by Ghot® [May 2020]
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
    Motherboard
    Asus Pro WS X570-ACE (BIOS 4702)
    Memory
    G.Skill (F4-3200C14D-16GTZKW)
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA RTX 2070 (08G-P4-2171-KR)
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC1220P / ALC S1220A
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell U3011 30"
    Screen Resolution
    2560 x 1600
    Hard Drives
    2x Samsung 860 EVO 500GB,
    WD 4TB Black FZBX - SATA III,
    WD 8TB Black FZBX - SATA III,
    DRW-24B1ST CD/DVD Burner
    PSU
    PC Power & Cooling 750W Quad EPS12V
    Case
    Cooler Master ATCS 840 Tower
    Cooling
    CM Hyper 212 EVO (push/pull)
    Keyboard
    Ducky DK9008 Shine II Blue LED
    Mouse
    Logitech Optical M-100
    Internet Speed
    300/300
    Browser
    Firefox (latest)
    Antivirus
    Bitdefender Internet Security
    Other Info
    Speakers: Klipsch Pro Media 2.1
  • Operating System
    Windows XP Pro 32bit w/SP3
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Built by Ghot® (not in use)
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (OC'd @ 3.2Ghz)
    Motherboard
    ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition
    Memory
    TWIN2X2048-6400C4DHX (2 x 1GB, DDR2 800)
    Graphics card(s)
    EVGA 256-P2-N758-TR GeForce 8600GT SSC
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    ViewSonic G90FB Black 19" Professional (CRT)
    Screen Resolution
    up to 2048 x 1536
    Hard Drives
    WD 36GB 10,000rpm Raptor SATA
    Seagate 80GB 7200rpm SATA
    Lite-On LTR-52246S CD/RW
    Lite-On LH-18A1P CD/DVD Burner
    PSU
    PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad EPS12V
    Case
    Generic Beige case, 80mm fans
    Cooling
    ZALMAN 9500A 92mm CPU Cooler
    Mouse
    Logitech Optical M-BT96a
    Keyboard
    Logitech Classic Keybooard 200
    Internet Speed
    300/300
    Browser
    Firefox 3.x ??
    Antivirus
    Symantec (Norton)
    Other Info
    Still assembled, still runs. Haven't turned it on for 13 years?
@Ghot is right. Willy nilly changing settings can give unexpected results. Default settings are called 'default' for a reason. Default settings have been tested to work. I'm not saying to not make changes, only to know what you are changing when an OS is running stable and what you can expect by changing it.
 

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  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro 23H2 22631.3296
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Optiplex 7080
    CPU
    i9-10900 10 core 20 threads
    Motherboard
    DELL 0J37VM
    Memory
    32 gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    none-Intel UHD Graphics 630
    Sound Card
    Integrated Realtek
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Benq 27
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1tb Solidigm m.2 +256gb ssd+512 gb usb m.2 sata
    PSU
    500w
    Case
    MT
    Cooling
    Dell Premium
    Keyboard
    Logitech wired
    Mouse
    Logitech wireless
    Internet Speed
    so slow I'm too embarrassed to tell
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Defender+MWB Premium
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro 22H2 19045.3930
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Optiplex 9020
    CPU
    i7-4770
    Memory
    24 gb
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Benq 27
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    256 gb Toshiba BG4 M.2 NVE SSB and 1 tb hdd
    PSU
    500w
    Case
    MT
    Cooling
    Dell factory
    Mouse
    Logitech wireless
    Keyboard
    Logitech wired
    Internet Speed
    still not telling
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Defender+MWB Premium

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