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Interesting situation. The pc is the one in my sig, (Asus 990FX Sabertooth / AMD 8350 / Sapphire 290X SuperFlower 1000W Platinum PSU / Corsair Neutron SSD 16GB Corsair Vengeance)
Its an old rig i use for work and no gaming. I have 3 monitors hooked up to it and have had no issues for years.
Yesterday it was in sleep mode and woke up to download windows updates it seems. No big deal, it was left awake several hours i think but all temps were ok (under 50c) considering the room temp was 30c.
Anyway i sit down to watch the football later that day and every now and again theres a stutter/horizontal line the video very occasionally. that prompted the temp checks. Let it restart a few time make sure all the updates were installed completely. The stutter goes on for an hour and then gets worse when i stream to multiple monitors. Had all the screens flicker black for a fraction of a second but continue normally. 5 minutes later they flicker and dont come back.
Restarting the PC it boots but loads endlessly on the windows screen and then goes black eventually. unplugged all but 1 monitor but it continues. i can navigate the bios and windows repair but it fails fix anything. Doing a windows restart is okay until a certain point where it goes black again after it thinks its finished and loading windows again.
Its almost as if the old gpu can only go so far and then once anything is graphically intensive it fails. No on board graphics so i cant test without the gpu. Could potentially be a psu or ssd issue? Ive never had a ssd fail when in use though and doesnt explain the video glitching which didnt occur when browsing files etc.
Whats every ones thoughts?
Its an old rig i use for work and no gaming. I have 3 monitors hooked up to it and have had no issues for years.
Yesterday it was in sleep mode and woke up to download windows updates it seems. No big deal, it was left awake several hours i think but all temps were ok (under 50c) considering the room temp was 30c.
Anyway i sit down to watch the football later that day and every now and again theres a stutter/horizontal line the video very occasionally. that prompted the temp checks. Let it restart a few time make sure all the updates were installed completely. The stutter goes on for an hour and then gets worse when i stream to multiple monitors. Had all the screens flicker black for a fraction of a second but continue normally. 5 minutes later they flicker and dont come back.
Restarting the PC it boots but loads endlessly on the windows screen and then goes black eventually. unplugged all but 1 monitor but it continues. i can navigate the bios and windows repair but it fails fix anything. Doing a windows restart is okay until a certain point where it goes black again after it thinks its finished and loading windows again.
Its almost as if the old gpu can only go so far and then once anything is graphically intensive it fails. No on board graphics so i cant test without the gpu. Could potentially be a psu or ssd issue? Ive never had a ssd fail when in use though and doesnt explain the video glitching which didnt occur when browsing files etc.
Whats every ones thoughts?
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