Hai, I may have crashed 3-4 times this entire year, but at least 3 of those crashes were do to Windows 10 updating GPU drivers and doing a crapping job of it. I had forgotten to check to make sure it was still disabled that feature when Windows did a full version update, and that update had re-enabled several items, such as Xbox stuff and the driver updates..
Essentially, since PGI is not updating people's systems, etc, each system will be different on what has been applied, enabled/disabled, checking system stability, etc.
GPU driver
Sound driver (issues with this driver goes unnoticed often)
chipset drivers
repatching directx 9c June 2010 w/redistribution package, not the stand alone.
And Turboboost, which is a layperson's cheap overclocking, increases the power to fewer and fewer cores by increasing the BLCK (old name - FSB for AMD) BCLK effects not only the cpu frequency but also memory frequency. So instead of using a CPU multiplier (changing CPU base from 40x to 44x) the frequency is changed from 100 to 125, etc.
For troubleshooting/testing, after updating/installing drivers, one could disable turboboost as a test. Set to 97% or 98%. There are other ways to lock items down in bios, changing specific items from auto to a set value but this is only a first step to troubleshooting, and it is not difficult to reset it back to default.
https://www.tautvida...el-turbo-boost/
Edited by Tarl Cabot, 04 November 2017 - 06:48 PM.