Strange GPU issue?

shankly1985 · 29 Feb 2012 at 23:04

Ran heaven gpu benchmark for two passes on all high settings and no problems and if gpu was at fault surly with that much power on the test it would crash?
So now I have done Prime95 for one hour no problem, memtest for two hours no errors. So what else does that bring me to try? looks like it just crysis and windows 64bit thats the problem. Not happy about it wait so long to play that game and it dont work.

beejjacobs · 1 Mar 2012 at 00:59

Have you tried just reinstalling Crysis? I'd be surprised if it just shut down the PC, but seems a worth a try if its the only program causing issues?

soundesciple · 1 Mar 2012 at 07:33

Simple question but have you checked your power settings after updateing the Bios? Make sure its not set to power saveing. ( set it to performance)

shankly1985 · 1 Mar 2012 at 08:03

Now this was strange last night at 5am my pc switched on by its self? And now won't boot led on board stuck on 0d what's that mean?

shankly1985 · 1 Mar 2012 at 08:12

Clear cmos fixed that problem. Where is the power saving in bios?
Found it and its set to disable.

shankly1985 · 1 Mar 2012 at 08:44

Can someone look at this and see if it what it should be?

soundesciple · 1 Mar 2012 at 10:18

No, not in the Bios, i meant in windows! Go to control panel / power settings, and set the power to performance, if its set to (power saveing) it could be trying to turn your display and HDD off after a set time.

Leave power saveing enabled in the bios as that will drop the voltage/cpu clock speed when not doing anything intansive.

shankly1985 · 1 Mar 2012 at 11:05

soundesciple said:
No, not in the Bios, i meant in windows! Go to control panel / power settings, and set the power to performance, if its set to (power saveing) it could be trying to turn your display and HDD off after a set time.

Leave power saveing enabled in the bios as that will drop the voltage/cpu clock speed when not doing anything intansive.

Thanks will enable that later. In my power settings I have instant boot thing that comes with asrock, going to remove that has its pointless.
My power saving in bios is disable by default

shankly1985 · 1 Mar 2012 at 18:47

Right done all that and then I downloaded metro 2233 another game been wanting to try out and it done same thing crashed with black screen. So I switched it back on and went into the Bios and it done it there also, switched back on and its been fine??
Are theses settings correct? So has it stands I have spent £1000 on a gaming PC that cant play a game for more than 10mins.

Really need to get to the bottom of this guys.

shankly1985 · 1 Mar 2012 at 18:52

I just disabled that spread spectrum should I have that enabled?

shankly1985 · 1 Mar 2012 at 20:04

MMM Think I have sorted out the problem. My psu comes with two 8-pin built into it and theses I was using, so I just went and got another two out the box and installed them just played metro 2233 demo right the way through no problems.

stulid · 1 Mar 2012 at 20:07

shankly1985 said:
I just disabled that spread spectrum should I have that enabled?

Either, Disabled gives you exactly 100Mhz BCLK.

shankly1985 said:
MMM Think I have sorted out the problem. My psu comes with two 8-pin built into it and theses I was using, so I just went and got another two out the box and installed them just played metro 2233 demo right the way through no problems.

And now if you try the two you think are faulty does the issue reoccur?

shankly1985 · 1 Mar 2012 at 20:20

stulid said:
Either, Disabled gives you exactly 100Mhz BCLK.

And now if you try the two you think are faulty does the issue reoccur?

I dont really want to lol now its working I can live with two cables broke. Can still to sli If need because I still have another two 8-pin cables in the box.
Going to try crysis now and see how it runs report back in 30mins.

shankly1985 · 1 Mar 2012 at 21:01

Worked perfect

Strange thing is I tested the PSU other week but cant remember if I tested both 8-pin built in ones.