I built my first PC about 7 months ago with the following specs: MSI A520m PRO motherboard, Ryzen 5 5600 processor, Teamgroup 512GB SSD, RX580 2048SP graphics card, and 16GB of RAM (8GB from Corsair Vengeance and 8GB from Fury, both at 3200 MHz). I'm using a Corsair CX750 power supply. Everything was running smoothly until recently when my PC started randomly rebooting. I checked the event viewer and saw a WHEA logger event ID 1 indicating a hardware failure was causing the reboots.
Initially, I thought it might be due to bent CPU pins, but after inspecting, I found no issues. I reseated the PSU and all cables, and I got some help from others who suggested that having two different RAM sticks might be causing instability, despite having XMP enabled, which I later turned off without any improvement.
I monitored my PSU using HWMonitor, and it appears to be functioning normally, providing the right voltages. However, I also consulted ChatGPT for troubleshooting, and it suggested that my GPU might be failing, which raised some concern since my graphics card was used for mining before. It has stock memory and core clock rates of 1500 MHz and 1150 MHz, respectively, which seem low compared to a standard RX580. I'm not fully convinced by the AI's analysis, though. I'm currently on a tight budget and can't afford to replace either the PSU or GPU. I could really use some advice to get my PC running reliably again. Thanks in advance!
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I had a similar issue before, and it turned out to be a low CMOS battery causing the WHEA errors. I updated the BIOS, and everything started working normally again, so it might be worth checking that out!
That's a good point! I've also seen cheap CMOS batteries fail pretty quickly on motherboards. If you have the chance, definitely swap it out to see if that resolves your issue.