Darkdiz Posted December 4, 2021 Posted December 4, 2021 Recently, and seemingly randomly, I have been experiencing crashes to a complete computer freeze. Some days it doesn't happen, on others it does. It is insidious, in that I can look away for a sec, and then when I look back, the display has frozen, no more digital output to my audio receiver, no mouse, nothing. The only way I can get it back is a reset, frequently the reset button will not reset (computer seems to want to reboot, but is stuck in some sort of endless loop). Most times, I have to completely remove power, and then reboot. The event viewer shows nothing, nor do the logs (I have the full debug log enabled, attached below). System specs in my sig block. I'm really at a loss here... dcs.log Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can detect AMD Ryzen 9 3900x CPU@4.5Ghz, ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero Motherboard, 64GB Corsair Venegence DDR 3200 RAM, MSI Rtx 3060 12GB GPU, MSI Rtx 4060 8GB GPU, 40" and 37" 1920x1080 Samsung Monitor, 40" 1920x1080 Sony Monitor, 1TB Seagate Firecuda M2 PCIe 4 OS SSD, 2TB Western Digital Blue M2 PCIe 3 storage SSD, 8TB Samsung 870QVO storage SSD, Western Digital Blue 1TB storage SATA, 2x Thrustmaster T16000 (LH and RH), Warthog Joy/Throttle/TPRS, 6 x Cougar MFDs (4 with Generic VGA 800x600 displays), Track IR 5 with IR Trackstar V3, Logitech G915 Tactile Keyboard, Logitech G502 Lightspeed Mouse, Logitech G935 Headset, Next Level Racing HF8 Haptic Gaming Pad, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Soul: None (sold long ago to the MGOMU, also known as Princess)
ED Team maximov Posted December 5, 2021 ED Team Posted December 5, 2021 Since dcs.log breaks without any errors, I assume that the hang occurs at the operating system level. After freezing the game, open the event log of the Windows and find the System tab. Filter the events by the values "Error" and "Critical". Save this report in *.evtx format and attach it here. 1
Darkdiz Posted December 7, 2021 Author Posted December 7, 2021 This has been an on-going issue, and I'm NOT convinced DCS has anything to do with it. I have a ticket in with ASUS, I suspect it has something to do with the motherboard. BUt its frustrating nonetheless, as it occurs with NO warning Darkdiz Event Viewer.xml Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can detect AMD Ryzen 9 3900x CPU@4.5Ghz, ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero Motherboard, 64GB Corsair Venegence DDR 3200 RAM, MSI Rtx 3060 12GB GPU, MSI Rtx 4060 8GB GPU, 40" and 37" 1920x1080 Samsung Monitor, 40" 1920x1080 Sony Monitor, 1TB Seagate Firecuda M2 PCIe 4 OS SSD, 2TB Western Digital Blue M2 PCIe 3 storage SSD, 8TB Samsung 870QVO storage SSD, Western Digital Blue 1TB storage SATA, 2x Thrustmaster T16000 (LH and RH), Warthog Joy/Throttle/TPRS, 6 x Cougar MFDs (4 with Generic VGA 800x600 displays), Track IR 5 with IR Trackstar V3, Logitech G915 Tactile Keyboard, Logitech G502 Lightspeed Mouse, Logitech G935 Headset, Next Level Racing HF8 Haptic Gaming Pad, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Soul: None (sold long ago to the MGOMU, also known as Princess)
ED Team maximov Posted December 7, 2021 ED Team Posted December 7, 2021 On 05.12.2021 at 11:38, maximov said: Save this report in *.evtx format
Darkdiz Posted December 7, 2021 Author Posted December 7, 2021 3 hours ago, maximov said: Not sure how to do that, when I save the file from the event viewer, it does not have that option Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can detect AMD Ryzen 9 3900x CPU@4.5Ghz, ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero Motherboard, 64GB Corsair Venegence DDR 3200 RAM, MSI Rtx 3060 12GB GPU, MSI Rtx 4060 8GB GPU, 40" and 37" 1920x1080 Samsung Monitor, 40" 1920x1080 Sony Monitor, 1TB Seagate Firecuda M2 PCIe 4 OS SSD, 2TB Western Digital Blue M2 PCIe 3 storage SSD, 8TB Samsung 870QVO storage SSD, Western Digital Blue 1TB storage SATA, 2x Thrustmaster T16000 (LH and RH), Warthog Joy/Throttle/TPRS, 6 x Cougar MFDs (4 with Generic VGA 800x600 displays), Track IR 5 with IR Trackstar V3, Logitech G915 Tactile Keyboard, Logitech G502 Lightspeed Mouse, Logitech G935 Headset, Next Level Racing HF8 Haptic Gaming Pad, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Soul: None (sold long ago to the MGOMU, also known as Princess)
Darkdiz Posted December 7, 2021 Author Posted December 7, 2021 NVM, figured it out. As I said above, I'm NOT convinced DCS is the culprit, in fact as time moves on, I think that it is less and less likely DCS caused this insidious freeze. Don't spend too much time on this, more and more evidence points to a MB issue (direct short on the board would certainly cause this type of freeze I think), or a USB input shorted against the case. BTW, thanks for you VERY quick response to this, you guys (and gals) are rock stars in my book Darkdiz Crash Log.evtx Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can detect AMD Ryzen 9 3900x CPU@4.5Ghz, ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero Motherboard, 64GB Corsair Venegence DDR 3200 RAM, MSI Rtx 3060 12GB GPU, MSI Rtx 4060 8GB GPU, 40" and 37" 1920x1080 Samsung Monitor, 40" 1920x1080 Sony Monitor, 1TB Seagate Firecuda M2 PCIe 4 OS SSD, 2TB Western Digital Blue M2 PCIe 3 storage SSD, 8TB Samsung 870QVO storage SSD, Western Digital Blue 1TB storage SATA, 2x Thrustmaster T16000 (LH and RH), Warthog Joy/Throttle/TPRS, 6 x Cougar MFDs (4 with Generic VGA 800x600 displays), Track IR 5 with IR Trackstar V3, Logitech G915 Tactile Keyboard, Logitech G502 Lightspeed Mouse, Logitech G935 Headset, Next Level Racing HF8 Haptic Gaming Pad, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Soul: None (sold long ago to the MGOMU, also known as Princess)
ED Team maximov Posted December 7, 2021 ED Team Posted December 7, 2021 Try disabling the motherboard backlight control application.
Darkdiz Posted December 7, 2021 Author Posted December 7, 2021 Aura Sync? I'll check it out, thx Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can detect AMD Ryzen 9 3900x CPU@4.5Ghz, ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero Motherboard, 64GB Corsair Venegence DDR 3200 RAM, MSI Rtx 3060 12GB GPU, MSI Rtx 4060 8GB GPU, 40" and 37" 1920x1080 Samsung Monitor, 40" 1920x1080 Sony Monitor, 1TB Seagate Firecuda M2 PCIe 4 OS SSD, 2TB Western Digital Blue M2 PCIe 3 storage SSD, 8TB Samsung 870QVO storage SSD, Western Digital Blue 1TB storage SATA, 2x Thrustmaster T16000 (LH and RH), Warthog Joy/Throttle/TPRS, 6 x Cougar MFDs (4 with Generic VGA 800x600 displays), Track IR 5 with IR Trackstar V3, Logitech G915 Tactile Keyboard, Logitech G502 Lightspeed Mouse, Logitech G935 Headset, Next Level Racing HF8 Haptic Gaming Pad, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Soul: None (sold long ago to the MGOMU, also known as Princess)
Darkdiz Posted January 13, 2022 Author Posted January 13, 2022 So after MUCH testing and fiddling around, it turns out that the rudder pedals are occasionally triggering the complete freeze, it looks suspiciously like some sort of grounding issue. Still working on a fix, but at least I have a better idea of what is going on. Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can detect AMD Ryzen 9 3900x CPU@4.5Ghz, ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero Motherboard, 64GB Corsair Venegence DDR 3200 RAM, MSI Rtx 3060 12GB GPU, MSI Rtx 4060 8GB GPU, 40" and 37" 1920x1080 Samsung Monitor, 40" 1920x1080 Sony Monitor, 1TB Seagate Firecuda M2 PCIe 4 OS SSD, 2TB Western Digital Blue M2 PCIe 3 storage SSD, 8TB Samsung 870QVO storage SSD, Western Digital Blue 1TB storage SATA, 2x Thrustmaster T16000 (LH and RH), Warthog Joy/Throttle/TPRS, 6 x Cougar MFDs (4 with Generic VGA 800x600 displays), Track IR 5 with IR Trackstar V3, Logitech G915 Tactile Keyboard, Logitech G502 Lightspeed Mouse, Logitech G935 Headset, Next Level Racing HF8 Haptic Gaming Pad, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Soul: None (sold long ago to the MGOMU, also known as Princess)
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