it seems to have something to do with the work units themselves because its not thermal problems. gpu runs at 56c and cpu at 62c maxed out. if i set my computing preferences to 50% it seems to be ok but not great anything more than that and i get black screen that wont restart untill i come and pysicly press the reset button. can someone look at my settings/ work units and help me out? thank you

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it seems to have something to do with the work units themselves because its not thermal problems. gpu runs at 56c and cpu at 62c maxed out. if i set my computing preferences to 50% it seems to be ok but not great anything more than that and i get black screen that wont restart untill i come and pysicly press the reset button. can someone look at my settings/ work units and help me out? thank you

Could you post the first 30 lines of your Boinc Startup log Please?

Did this just start recently? After the last Windows update?

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i wanna say its been happening for a while...like the past 7 months or so. at first i thought it was because my cpu couldn't handle all the work but i can push this thing pretty hard during gaming sessions and streaming, i thought it was everything from thermal throttling to malware and im at a loss

5/28/2019 5:24:57 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.14.2 for windows_x86_64
5/28/2019 5:24:57 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
5/28/2019 5:24:57 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.47.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8
5/28/2019 5:24:57 PM | | Data directory: E:\BOINC DATA
5/28/2019 5:24:57 PM | | Running under account JARVIS
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 430.86, CUDA version 10.2, compute capability 6.1, 4096MB, 3554MB available, 7046 GFLOPS peak)
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 430.86, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 8192MB, 3554MB available, 7046 GFLOPS peak)
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | Host name: JARVIS
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | Processor: 12 AuthenticAMD AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor [Family 23 Model 1 Stepping 1]
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 svm sse4a osvw skinit wdt tce topx page1gb rdtscp fsgsbase bmi1 smep
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 10: Core x64 Edition, (10.00.17134.00)
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | Memory: 31.93 GB physical, 36.68 GB virtual
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | Disk: 931.02 GB total, 775.83 GB free
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | Local time is UTC -7 hours
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | No WSL found.
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 8337840; resource share 100
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 13-Nov-2017 20:23:44)
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | SETI@home | Computer location: home
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | Reading preferences override file
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | Preferences:
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | max memory usage when active: 16347.88 MB
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 29426.18 MB
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | max disk usage: 2.00 GB
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | max CPUs used: 4
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | don't compute while active
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | don't use GPU while active
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 11%
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
5/28/2019 5:24:59 PM | | Setting up project and slot directories

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If it's not thermal, then i'd check the voltages from your Power supply as it may not be coping with the load.
Crunching Seti works a system a lot harder than any game.

Probably also worth running the Windows memory test to make sure it's not a memory issue.

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so the memory test came back fine and i went to the Event viewer and found a DistributedCOM error but i cant make any sense of it, ill post it here:

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM" Guid="{1B562E86-B7AA-4131-BADC-B6F3A001407E}" EventSourceName="DCOM" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">10016</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-06-02T06:28:31.029328200Z" />
<EventRecordID>39609</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="524" ThreadID="932" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>JARVIS</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="param1">application-specific</Data>
<Data Name="param2">Local</Data>
<Data Name="param3">Launch</Data>
<Data Name="param4">Windows.SecurityCenter.WscBrokerManager</Data>
<Data Name="param5">Unavailable</Data>
<Data Name="param6">NT AUTHORITY</Data>
<Data Name="param7">SYSTEM</Data>
<Data Name="param8">S-1-5-18</Data>
<Data Name="param9">LocalHost (Using LRPC)</Data>
<Data Name="param10">Unavailable</Data>
<Data Name="param11">Unavailable</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

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so BEFORE i spend $300 on a new power supply tell me why you think that its a power issue? is 750 watts not enough? what should i upgrade to?

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From https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4022522/dcom-event-id-10016-is-logged-in-windows-10-windows-server:

These 10016 events are recorded when Microsoft components tries to access DCOM components without the required permissions. In this case, this is expected and by design.

A coding pattern has been implemented where the code first tries to access the DCOM components with one set of parameters. If the first attempt is unsuccessful, it tries again with another set of parameters. The reason why it does not skip the first attempt is because there are scenarios where it can succeed. In those scenarios, that is preferable.

Workaround

These events can be safely ignored because they do not adversely affect functionality and are by design. This is the recommend action for these events.

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so BEFORE i spend $300 on a new power supply tell me why you think that its a power issue? is 750 watts not enough? what should i upgrade to?

There are PSUs and PSUs, but not all PSUs are equal.

$300.- is unnecessary. You can buy a good brand for around $100.- - $130.-, like Seasonic.

And with luck it'll be fully modular.
But best check your present PSU's brand and model against the tier list:
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1045610-new-psu-tier-list/.

Is your present PSU in the lower end of this list, it may not output the correct value of Watt that is in its name. Get a high end certified PSU. And as I said, they don't have to be that expensive.

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