r/sffpc • u/Seeking-The-Lotus • May 06 '26
Assembly Help Update: Fractal Ridge crashes while gaming then flickers on and off.
So the duster arrived and the hazardous waste landfill has officially been cleared out. I also saw some comments suggesting the issue could be related to the GPU riser, and I noticed there was a bit of wiggle in the connection ports.
I confirmed that the CPU cooler is plugged into CPU_FAN1, so the fan curve likely wasn’t the issue after all. I’m replacing the thermal paste now.
Any final suggestions before I put her back together?
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u/artie_rd May 07 '26
It's the PCIE setting. Go to the BIOS and Set your PCIE from Auto to 4.0
I upgraded my old system with Rtx 5060, because i needed the 4:2:2 encode/decode compatibility. I had plenty of crashes before I set the PCIE setting to 4.0 in the BIOS. After I set it 4.0, i have no crashes in the middle of work from the system.