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PC just locks up in game from cold boot

ChrisD.

ChrisD.

ChrisD.

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Spec as per sig, temps and what not all okay.

I'll start playing a game, can be anything, and 90% of the time after a cold boot the PC will freeze. No inputs are detected, sound cuts out and I have to kill it with the power switch. When it boots again I can be gaming for hours on end.

It happened yesterday, and I was playing Arkham Knight for about 10 hours afterwards without issue after booting again. I've already backed off the CPU overclock and that made no difference, GPUs are both running stock EVGA SC BIOS clocks although only one is used in AK.

Nothing in the event log except to say that the last shutdown was unexpected. No kidding!

Any ideas? PSU is a bit old, maybe that? Wouldn't have thought so though.
 
Difficult one. Could be memory, PSU, drivers...

I'd start by running memtest. Reinstall/change gfx driver and/or OS.

Trial and error stuff unless you suspect something directly.
 
Kelt said:
Difficult one. Could be memory, PSU, drivers...

I'd start by running memtest. Reinstall/change gfx driver and/or OS.

Trial and error stuff unless you suspect something directly.
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I think it's hardware related as it's done it through several OS installs. I'll fire up a memtest this evening and leave it running.

HRL said:
Got a spare PSU you can swap it with? That'd be my bet.
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Sadly I don't.
 
Have you tried taking out one of the graphics cards to reduce the power draw?
 
Kelt said:
Have you tried taking out one of the graphics cards to reduce the power draw?
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No, and to be honest it'd be a complete pain to do, as I've have to remove the EK bridge, partially drain the loop and reconfigure the block for single card only. Once that's done, I don't know if the current tubing would actually be long enough to reach.

Arkham Knight only uses the one card anyway, I wouldn't expect the second to be drawing too much power.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it used to do it on the old 980's I had hence in my OP I mention about the PSU. It's what my gut feeling is but I don't really know how to test it.
 
No mates with a PC you can butcher for an hour or two?

If not you may need to bite the bullet and just replace it. Sorry, upgrade it. ;)
 
There is one I could borrow but it would mean interrupting his CS:GO playing, not sure he'd be happy about that. May persuade him round to have some beers then run some benchmarks/games to check stability.
 
Dooksy said:
No, and to be honest it'd be a complete pain to do, as I've have to remove the EK bridge, partially drain the loop and reconfigure the block for single card only. Once that's done, I don't know if the current tubing would actually be long enough to reach.

Arkham Knight only uses the one card anyway, I wouldn't expect the second to be drawing too much power.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it used to do it on the old 980's I had hence in my OP I mention about the PSU. It's what my gut feeling is but I don't really know how to test it.
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Well you ccould always unplug it :p
 
Hahaha. Do you want to find the cause of the problem or not?

Try that first, if it doesn't make a difference bribe your mate with beer.
 
Dooksy said:
True but I don't see how much power draw difference it would make whether plugged in or not since the card isn't being used?
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Just part of the process of trial and error and try anything once.
 
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