I assembled a gaming PC about a week ago. This PC has a 3060 ti, an i7 10700k, 16GB Corsair Dominator 3600MHz Ram, a 750 Watt LCPower power supply, a 1TB Cosair M2 SSD and the Asus ROG Strix Z490 E-Gaming.
The problems started when Minecraft, which is not a laborious game, often crashed. Then my PC just restarted 3 times. Then he just hung himself up. Everything happened at a distance, so not on the same day.
I downloaded the new graphics card driver. Everything didn't do much until I deleted everything except Windows via the setting. Then it worked for about a day and nothing crashes anymore, but Minecraft keeps crashing.
Since today or yesterday my RTC does not connect as fast as usual on Discord and now and then my screen flickers minimally above. Fortnite does not use ray tracing properly. Fortnite doesn't crash though. At Discord, my friends sometimes haven't even heard me since yesterday until I reconnect. My headset isn't always that good either.
When I assembled the PC, the squares and semicircles (connections) from the power supply cable did not quite fit on the graphics card, so the shapes did not pinch 100% if I'm not mistaken, but it still fit.
I'm really desperate and I need help.
Then you should get a new / different graphics card if the connections don't fit exactly.
It works and the card is recognized. The card also does the job.
Okay, does everything fit the mainboard?
Yes.
Have you ever checked whether they are the same when you have two RAM memory modules?
They're the same because they were in a package. 16GB are also recognized.
I'm really very sorry, then I can't really help you anymore.
Ok, thanks anyway. Have a good time.
A complete reinstallation of Windows might be worth a try. Otherwise you could test the hardware with a different operating system for diagnostic purposes.
If none of this helps, it is almost certainly a hardware defect. Since it is common and easy to test, I would test the RAM first. Windows has its own tool for this (but you should use the most thorough mode, it takes a while).
With the other components, it really only helps to replace them and see when the problems stop (or test each component individually in a different setup).
