Soldato
Ok fellas.
Will try and not make this a wall of text, but I've got some serious issues here, 24 hours later after dozens of different troubleshooting and fault finding exercises, I come to you desperate and all for some serious help.
Here's the situation.
Previously I had been running crossfire MSI 390 cards in my system on a BenQ 144hz Freesync screen, the one in my sig. Everything was getting way to toasty so this past week I've put together a water cooling project, finally get it filled last night and got rid of all the air.
Ok so anyway, when I tried gaming or running benchmarks last night, within a few seconds the screen starts going black (but not in standby) then a second later the visuals of whatever i'm playing displays again, then after that point the screen just constantly flashes black randomly again flicking the game back on the display in intervals etc etc. There is no issue on the desktop, no issue watching videos, it just seems to be when running anything 3d. Temps are around 25c idle and 40c on the core when benching and 60c on the VRM's.
I tried reinstalling drivers last night, tried different display port cables, running different screen hz rates, tried turning off freesync, only used 1 card each test but every time I tested a game or bench the same outcome. I then tried using HDMI on the monitor and was absolutely fine, and also tried using DVI and was fine also, no black screens flashing on and off at all.
So this morning I decided to drain the loop, and swap the cards around to see if the same black screens would occur on the other gpu. Well exactly the same. When running DP and gaming, black screens again. Tried HDMI and DVI just fine no issue.
I then did a windows reinstall and latest drivers, black screens when gaming again.
I bought a brand new Superflower 1300w PSU for this water cooling, thought then to check the PSU (clutching at straws now) so connected my old PSU up outside the case with a cable across the pins and just connected to 1 GPU, still black screens.
Now, this problem seems to only revolve around DisplayPort and gaming/benching. I need to test another Freesync monitor on this system to rule out the monitor, I just don't know if it's the DP port on the monitor playing up. I've never borked any piece of hardware in my life, I'm incredibly thorough and careful when doing any work on components, but if maybe there was an issue with one card, what are the chances that I've messed up both cards which show the exact same issue, you know what I mean. None of us our perfect, but I'm so lost of any idea what to do now. I don't want to send two GPU's back to MSI for RMA then find they send them back nothing wrong, and exactly the same for the screen. I just need to find a way of ruling out the monitor once and for all.
I need all you gurus to please throw some light on this one, I'm actually destroyed at the minute, just completely out of ideas.
Will try and not make this a wall of text, but I've got some serious issues here, 24 hours later after dozens of different troubleshooting and fault finding exercises, I come to you desperate and all for some serious help.
Here's the situation.
Previously I had been running crossfire MSI 390 cards in my system on a BenQ 144hz Freesync screen, the one in my sig. Everything was getting way to toasty so this past week I've put together a water cooling project, finally get it filled last night and got rid of all the air.
Ok so anyway, when I tried gaming or running benchmarks last night, within a few seconds the screen starts going black (but not in standby) then a second later the visuals of whatever i'm playing displays again, then after that point the screen just constantly flashes black randomly again flicking the game back on the display in intervals etc etc. There is no issue on the desktop, no issue watching videos, it just seems to be when running anything 3d. Temps are around 25c idle and 40c on the core when benching and 60c on the VRM's.
I tried reinstalling drivers last night, tried different display port cables, running different screen hz rates, tried turning off freesync, only used 1 card each test but every time I tested a game or bench the same outcome. I then tried using HDMI on the monitor and was absolutely fine, and also tried using DVI and was fine also, no black screens flashing on and off at all.
So this morning I decided to drain the loop, and swap the cards around to see if the same black screens would occur on the other gpu. Well exactly the same. When running DP and gaming, black screens again. Tried HDMI and DVI just fine no issue.
I then did a windows reinstall and latest drivers, black screens when gaming again.
I bought a brand new Superflower 1300w PSU for this water cooling, thought then to check the PSU (clutching at straws now) so connected my old PSU up outside the case with a cable across the pins and just connected to 1 GPU, still black screens.
Now, this problem seems to only revolve around DisplayPort and gaming/benching. I need to test another Freesync monitor on this system to rule out the monitor, I just don't know if it's the DP port on the monitor playing up. I've never borked any piece of hardware in my life, I'm incredibly thorough and careful when doing any work on components, but if maybe there was an issue with one card, what are the chances that I've messed up both cards which show the exact same issue, you know what I mean. None of us our perfect, but I'm so lost of any idea what to do now. I don't want to send two GPU's back to MSI for RMA then find they send them back nothing wrong, and exactly the same for the screen. I just need to find a way of ruling out the monitor once and for all.
I need all you gurus to please throw some light on this one, I'm actually destroyed at the minute, just completely out of ideas.
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