Hi gang. This has been driving me nuts. I have a desktop PC with an MSI Geforce 970 and Windows 10 and it started behaving erratically this month. The system has been running fine for 2.5 years and I haven't installed any new hardware recently.
I've been getting random, frequent BSODs (VIDEO_SCHEDULER_INTERNAL_ERROR). Sometimes during gaming, sometimes when browsing. Can happen 5 minutes into a session, or an hour, or the machine can get into an infinite reboot loop. Sometimes it'll run fine an entire session until I shut down. At times I get the BSOD, other times I get a sudden reboot. Sometimes it will happen from a cold start, so I don't think it's temperature related. Sometimes you'll see it coming because artifacts will start appearing on screen (coloured boxes or vertical/horizontal lines), followed by the BSOD a few seconds later. The artifacts will sometimes appear on the UEFI screen as well.
Obviously it appears to be a graphics card issue, or so I thought. I RMA'd it to OcUK and while that happened I used the onboard graphics, my system ran stably during that time. OcUK came back a day later and said they've put the gfx card through their tests and all came back A-OK. They sent the card back to me. I slotted it back in and my system ran fine for almost a week, so I thought maybe this had all been user error - the card wasn't seated properly or some components were touching each other or whatever.
That was until a couple of days ago, when the problems started happening again.
I've no clue. What should I try next? Thanks!
Here's a couple of shots to show what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/1BcC3 . After the artifacts appear Windows crashes within seconds.
I've been getting random, frequent BSODs (VIDEO_SCHEDULER_INTERNAL_ERROR). Sometimes during gaming, sometimes when browsing. Can happen 5 minutes into a session, or an hour, or the machine can get into an infinite reboot loop. Sometimes it'll run fine an entire session until I shut down. At times I get the BSOD, other times I get a sudden reboot. Sometimes it will happen from a cold start, so I don't think it's temperature related. Sometimes you'll see it coming because artifacts will start appearing on screen (coloured boxes or vertical/horizontal lines), followed by the BSOD a few seconds later. The artifacts will sometimes appear on the UEFI screen as well.
Obviously it appears to be a graphics card issue, or so I thought. I RMA'd it to OcUK and while that happened I used the onboard graphics, my system ran stably during that time. OcUK came back a day later and said they've put the gfx card through their tests and all came back A-OK. They sent the card back to me. I slotted it back in and my system ran fine for almost a week, so I thought maybe this had all been user error - the card wasn't seated properly or some components were touching each other or whatever.
That was until a couple of days ago, when the problems started happening again.
I've no clue. What should I try next? Thanks!
Here's a couple of shots to show what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/1BcC3 . After the artifacts appear Windows crashes within seconds.
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