PC Losing Video

Hank_Marvin · 7 Mar 2017 at 23:20

Hello,

What do you think about this..........

My pc ASUS P8Z68-V GEN3, 3570k, 16gb corsair vengeance, evga 950sc+. During gaming the graphics drivers crash and I lose all display to any connected screen, pc continues to run fine as I can still hear and teamviewer on.

This started happening in the PCI ex slot 1 with two different cards and it was happening straight away at game loading or after some time, although I put in a ati 5450 into the same slot and no crashing.

I moved the card to PCI ex slot 2 and it was fine since last Friday until tonight it crashed in the same way in ARMA3.

Exact error is "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." which appears twice, but it doesn't recover.

So I'm not sure really, motherboard? Power? PC was running fine since I built it in Nov and this issue started about two weeks ago.

Opinions would be great.

Cheers

sergiup · 8 Mar 2017 at 08:53

I once had a dodgy PSU that caused seemingly random crashes, didn't matter if it was at near-idle or under load. It was a pain to diagnose...

Failing that, do normal CPU and/or RAM stress tests pass fine?

Hank_Marvin · 8 Mar 2017 at 11:57

yeah they did pass fine because I did wonder if it was an overclock issue, i mean i didnt test as long as I did in Heaven benchmark but long enough I think and no crashes. Memtest was fine.

Do you think 500w could be too little for the spec? its a nice corsair one but probably 8 years+ old, modular, do they deteriorate? I thought it would be fine as power requirements of this new system should be less?

Habakkuk · 9 Mar 2017 at 18:51

I thought power as well, but evga 950sc+ needs 350+ Watts.

5450 is an amazingly low-power card though - have you attached the additional 8-pin power supply cable on to the top of the motherboard?

Hank_Marvin · 10 Mar 2017 at 17:05

Habakkuk said:
I thought power as well, but evga 950sc+ needs 350+ Watts.

5450 is an amazingly low-power card though - have you attached the additional 8-pin power supply cable on to the top of the motherboard?

350+ watts just on it's own?

Do you mean on top of the graphics card? I've plugged the 6pin into that. From memory the motherboard has the 24pin plus the 12v 8pin, i'm sure i plugged that in when i built, will check though