Unknown and random crashes when playing 7Days

[Ash Housewares]

HWinfo64 is pretty good.

Thank you!

 

[SylenThunder]

I've found the Corsairs to be less reliable again. I just replaced one that was barely a year and a half old. Since this is the third I've had to replace in the past 5 years, (not the same computer, but similar ages on each PSU), I chose to get something completely different. Grabbed an MSI on sale for only $10 more, and it's got a 10-year warranty.

Just an update to this. The Corsair PSU failure managed to also fry my motherboard. Spent Friday working with Asus support, and luckily my board was still under warranty. Sadly I have no gaming PC for a couple of weeks while the RMA is handled.

 

[Ash Housewares]

Just an update to this. The Corsair PSU failure managed to also fry my motherboard. Spent Friday working with Asus support, and luckily my board was still under warranty. Sadly I have no gaming PC for a couple of weeks while the RMA is handled.

ouch that sucks! I hope Asus expedites your replacement mobo so you can get back to playing..

 

[SylenThunder]

ouch that sucks! I hope Asus expedites your replacement mobo so you can get back to playing..

Sadly, it'll probably be a couple of weeks even with expedited shipping. Cost me $36 to send it to them FedEx 2-day air, however their cost for expedited shipping is insane. 2-day air was something like $125. I'm afraid to even look at what they would charge me for expedited return shipping.

Anyway, be aware when your PSU starts to show signs of issues. It can quickly cause issues with other components. The sporadic issue I spent a week tracking down ended up killing a quite expensive part. I paid $280 for this originally, but if I had to replace it now, it's $400.

 

[Star69]

Recently have been experiencing random crashes while playing the game. The crash is so bad that it automatically reboots my computer each time. I can be playing 10 mins or 3 hours into it before I crash. I would say this started to happen after A20.2 was introduced, never experienced this while playing on A19. I typically play on a public multiplayer server called Salty Zombies PvE Casual.  This crash and reboot only seems to happen when I play 7Days. I am running Windows 10, 16 GB Ram, and have the latest video card driver.  Any suggestions about how to eliminate these crashes would be appreciated. 

This is my latest crash log :

https://pastebin.com/q8kRMWiK

UPDATE 3/14/22

I took my PC outside on a warm day and spent about 2 hours cleaning it with compressed air, anti static cloths, cotton swabs, and small plastic brushes to get into the hard to reach areas. Acting on Jugginator's advice, I also removed  my RAM sticks, cleaned them and the seating slots carefully and re-inserted them. Since then, I have not had any reboots since playing 7Days.  My RAM temps seem to be hovering around 100-115F at times when playing the game though. Not sure if this is too hot for RAM. CPU has hit 80F but usually around mid70s. 

Maybe all my PC needed was a good clean and re-seating the RAM. I will keep monitoring the temps for now but I want to thank everyone on the forum for the helpful advice!

EDIT: Well crap, my computer just rebooted unexpectedly while playing 7Days after several days of being incident free. Ugh.

Since you said that you weren’t very tech saavy, why not run the Windows Memory Diagnostics? It’s built into Windows and is an okay way to check whether you have a bad sector on your ram. It does take a bunch of time to complete so plan for that.