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PC keeps black screening, system is still up but display is gone?
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hot spots aren’t picked up by thermal sensors. But if it’s working now, all good.
Fair point, it's been very sporadic so it's too early to tell right now.
Well I'd rather that than the GPU, so if the issue persists then I'll swap out the PSU.
lower GPU power limit to the lowest level via MSI afterburner. See if that fixes it.
I'll try that if the problem persists today.
Good shout.
Roughly 4hrs gaming today (ya know, for science) and another 2hrs on Unigine Heaven and so far it's been OK.
Hopefully this has sorted it.
Hopefully this has sorted it.
Well it happened again this morning twice in a row, first time after 5 mins gaming and second time as soon as I loaded in to a map in a game. Very strange because it got through hours of gaming yesterday with zero problem. So memtest it is then and probably a new PSU to kick things off.
Oh dear, and now the PC boots up straight to a black screen. The screen is fine during POST then it blacks out when Windows loads. I can hear Windows loading up ok so I know it is just the graphics that are having some kind of issue.
4 attempts all with black screen, no black screen when monitor is connected to onboard graphics.
Nothing in Event Viewer but got some more Windows notifications about the display driver failing to start.
Currently running memtest64, no errors as yet.
Oh dear, and now the PC boots up straight to a black screen. The screen is fine during POST then it blacks out when Windows loads. I can hear Windows loading up ok so I know it is just the graphics that are having some kind of issue.
4 attempts all with black screen, no black screen when monitor is connected to onboard graphics.
Nothing in Event Viewer but got some more Windows notifications about the display driver failing to start.
Currently running memtest64, no errors as yet.
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Well this is weird, I have 2x 16GB sticks of RAM and if I remove 1 stick the graphics driver boots up fine, strange thing is I can swap the sticks over and it still boots fine?! As soon as I put both sticks in the graphics driver fails to load?! What the hell. So, motherboard problem or PSU problem? Can't be the RAM because it works with either stick, just not with both.
I'll order a PSU which will either fix it or rule it out.
I'll order a PSU which will either fix it or rule it out.
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Put both sticks of RAM back in, black screen when Windows loads, disabled XMP, windows loaded fine, gamed for 40min, black screen again. PSU arriving Monday, if that doesn't sort it I have no idea what's causing it as its just too random to nail down.
I also ran the built in Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool and that didn't find any problems either.
At this point I'm leaning away from RAM being the problem, I'm obviously no expert though.
I also ran the built in Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool and that didn't find any problems either.
At this point I'm leaning away from RAM being the problem, I'm obviously no expert though.
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I'm pretty sure my GPU is toast, the PC kept black screening upon boot today so I borrowed another 1080ti and instantly no black screen. Just about to try some gaming but Origin is throwing a wobbly and won't let me launch any games so once I've sorted that I should have a definitive answer.
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Still haven’t done a repaste?
I don't have any spare paste right now.
New pasted applied, it booted up ok but then black screened when I opened a game.
Borrowed another 1080ti and it booted up right away with no black screen and ran games for approx 1hr. So I bought another used GPU like my original one (EVGA 1080ti Hybrid) for £325, that's been gaming for 3hrs so far and been running FurMark for 40mins so far and hasn't black screened yet.
Obviously I need to do some more testing because the other day my old GPU nearly went a whole day without black screening.
IF the new (used) GPU has sorted it then my old GPU has just become a very expensive paperweight which probably isn't even worth sending off for repair as the price of them will drop in about 11 days.
There was no point me waiting for the 30 series GPU's because the 3080 & 3090 would certainly bottleneck my 7700k. I'll do a new PC build once Nvidia launch the 3080ti/super or whatever as they are bound to launch something better shortly like their recent history has shown. I'm guessing the ti/super will have more VRAM as the current 3080 has less VRAM than my 1080ti (yes I know it's not ALL about VRAM, but still, seems like an odd move from Nvidia). Also by then Intel may have actually released a decent CPU too.
Obviously I need to do some more testing because the other day my old GPU nearly went a whole day without black screening.
IF the new (used) GPU has sorted it then my old GPU has just become a very expensive paperweight which probably isn't even worth sending off for repair as the price of them will drop in about 11 days.
There was no point me waiting for the 30 series GPU's because the 3080 & 3090 would certainly bottleneck my 7700k. I'll do a new PC build once Nvidia launch the 3080ti/super or whatever as they are bound to launch something better shortly like their recent history has shown. I'm guessing the ti/super will have more VRAM as the current 3080 has less VRAM than my 1080ti (yes I know it's not ALL about VRAM, but still, seems like an odd move from Nvidia). Also by then Intel may have actually released a decent CPU too.