criznittle wrote:
check event viewer and see if you're having any new errors - i am, and quite a few.
one of them that's concerning me is WHEA-Logger "A fatal hardware error has occurred."
There's a bunch of new AppModel-Runtime, Kernel-EventTracing, Perflib, DeviceSetupManager, and DHCP-Client errors too.
I learned that a number of the new event viewer errors were due to the latest W10 update. That said, the WHEA-Logger error was almost certainly from the latest BIOS update. After some searching and testing, it became clear that the 3950x(not overclocked) was unstable. I'm not sure why else it suddenly would start happening after updating the BIOS. I think the performance gains ASUS claimed to have added came at a cost, and they needed to up the voltage slightly for some(all?) 3950x owners. After increasing the voltage by 0.015, the instability was gone and suddenly it could complete the RealBench benchmark and hours of stress testing.
Hopefully i didn't need to add that voltage because my CPU is already degrading - it's only been 7 months, and without any OC.
If anyone is getting the same WHEA-Logger error "A fatal hardware error has occurred. A record describing the condition is contained in the data section of this event." Event ID: 1
There's a chance it's processor instability and adding the tiniest amount of voltage could fix it.