Hoping to get some help on the issue. Monday i ordered an EVGA gtx 570 superclocked graphics card, have been using it since Tuesday and last night was playing metro 33 for a few hours fine, no problems.
Today Witcher 2 arrived, installed it and began to play it, after about 5 minutes my computer suddenly restarts and i can smell this plasticy burning smell, this allready has alarm bells ringing and my instant thought was the PSU had gone, strangly enough the computer restarted fine. Once again i loaded up Witcher 2 and instantly my monitor went completly purple and restarted, this time i tried Metro 33 which ran fine the night before and was greeted with an Orange screen on my monitor followed by another restart. I am able to surf the internet, use photoshop fine but as soon as i load a game or DVD the computer restarts.
After searching about i found it could be 1 of 3 things:
My main thought is that it is the GPU since it only restarts while watching DVD/Games, but it was working fine in Metro 33 before i started Witcher 2. Im not sure what the burning smell could have been?
Im about to try this graphics card in another computer rig, which should tell me if its a gpu problem or not.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before or have any ideas what exactly could be the problem?
Today Witcher 2 arrived, installed it and began to play it, after about 5 minutes my computer suddenly restarts and i can smell this plasticy burning smell, this allready has alarm bells ringing and my instant thought was the PSU had gone, strangly enough the computer restarted fine. Once again i loaded up Witcher 2 and instantly my monitor went completly purple and restarted, this time i tried Metro 33 which ran fine the night before and was greeted with an Orange screen on my monitor followed by another restart. I am able to surf the internet, use photoshop fine but as soon as i load a game or DVD the computer restarts.
After searching about i found it could be 1 of 3 things:
Capacitor has blown on the Mobo.
- GPU is buggered.
- Something in the PSU has blown, allthough it still works.
My main thought is that it is the GPU since it only restarts while watching DVD/Games, but it was working fine in Metro 33 before i started Witcher 2. Im not sure what the burning smell could have been?
Im about to try this graphics card in another computer rig, which should tell me if its a gpu problem or not.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before or have any ideas what exactly could be the problem?