I am having an infuriating problem with my PC! This has cost me quite a bit of money so far (but at least am upgrading).
Problems all started when I installed the ATI AMD Radeon R9 200 graphics card (bought from Overclockers on 16 Feb 2015). My PC would randomly blackscreen with the following symptoms:
- If music was playing, it would do the weird 1 second loop over and over (hung PC) uhh-uhh-uhh etc
- Computer itself remains on, fans still going
- Monitor blackscreens
- Can't see/do anything but reset
- Playing games is fine, never hangs
- Browing internet most likely to hang, opening new tabs etc
My SSD was pretty old, so upgraded it to a new 256gb samsung. Reinstalled everything, and (not too suprisingly) problem
persiss.
I thought, oh well probably drawing too much power from PSU, or PSU is failing. It is a BeQuiet 750w Gold. It was pretty old (~5 years). Someone I spoke to told me gaming will use a steady power consumption, whilst opening browsers etc can spike the power which might explain it.
I decided to test this theory by underclocking the card, and voila the problem dissapeared!
Fast forward a month or two, and I have upgraded my rig:
- 1,000w EVGA platinum PSU
- New mobo
- New CPU
- New RAM
Installed the lot, fresh instal windows and the problem is back! Argh! Underclocking the GPU seems to stop it for now.
Nothing in event viewer I can see. Temps before crashes are 30c-35c for CPU/GPU. I have two separate power cables from PSU connected to each of the two plugs on the GPU.
Please help me! What is causing this, I'm going frickin mad! Only thing to 'solve' it is underclocking GPU which sucks ass for a new build!
Problems all started when I installed the ATI AMD Radeon R9 200 graphics card (bought from Overclockers on 16 Feb 2015). My PC would randomly blackscreen with the following symptoms:
- If music was playing, it would do the weird 1 second loop over and over (hung PC) uhh-uhh-uhh etc
- Computer itself remains on, fans still going
- Monitor blackscreens
- Can't see/do anything but reset
- Playing games is fine, never hangs
- Browing internet most likely to hang, opening new tabs etc
My SSD was pretty old, so upgraded it to a new 256gb samsung. Reinstalled everything, and (not too suprisingly) problem
persiss.
I thought, oh well probably drawing too much power from PSU, or PSU is failing. It is a BeQuiet 750w Gold. It was pretty old (~5 years). Someone I spoke to told me gaming will use a steady power consumption, whilst opening browsers etc can spike the power which might explain it.
I decided to test this theory by underclocking the card, and voila the problem dissapeared!
Fast forward a month or two, and I have upgraded my rig:
- 1,000w EVGA platinum PSU
- New mobo
- New CPU
- New RAM
Installed the lot, fresh instal windows and the problem is back! Argh! Underclocking the GPU seems to stop it for now.
Nothing in event viewer I can see. Temps before crashes are 30c-35c for CPU/GPU. I have two separate power cables from PSU connected to each of the two plugs on the GPU.
Please help me! What is causing this, I'm going frickin mad! Only thing to 'solve' it is underclocking GPU which sucks ass for a new build!
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