Recent content by Caleb Hale

I noticed you didn't mention your boot drive at all. Where is Windows running from? That (non-SSD?) hard disk may have failed as that is what I suspect the cursor across the screen is doing on boot, scanning your OS hard disk for errors. The other likely culprit is that your RAM could be...

Have you tried with each stick of RAM separately? If one of them is bad and you only tried taking one random stick out and testing, it could be the one that you left in for the test that's bad. Also, are you running all of your voltages and clock speeds at default right now?

Unless your PSU is going out on you it sounds like it just doesn't like the OC profile. Try to lower your OC settings manually. ***WARNING*** - You could possibly damage your hardware by increasing voltage manually! You could also try bumping the voltage to the GPU in the smallest increments...

I would not gamble with a used or refurbished GPU with all the mining going on (unless you're buying from someone you know personally). Those things have hundreds if not thousands of hours running at nearly 100% maxed out capacity.

Are all your drivers updated? Have you tried uninstalling all Nvidia software and reinstall fresh with the newest build?

Is this a new card you just installed? What PSU are you running?

I can't answer specifically about Freesync. I can tell you that I just upgraded to a 4k g-sync monitor. When I first tried a game at 4k@60hz there was so much screen tearing that it was almost unplayable. After enabling g-sync, everything was as smooth as butter...and so beautiful. Based on my...

Grinding noises aren't normal. It could be as easy as a case fan wire touching the fan blades as it spins. Somebody is going to have to take the cover off to find out what's causing it.

That sucks that they're only offering AMD CPU bundles or I'd snatch up a 1080 w/ i7 8700 and/or a mobo to go with it.

Windows 10 Pro. Yes my updates are downloaded and applied at like 3am. This happened middle of the day.

I have a Radeon HD7970 that's about 6 years old and never had any issues until a couple of days ago. Running dual monitors, I exited out of a game which should have taken me to my desktop, but instead the main screen where the game was being displayed just stayed black and then a few seconds...

Plug it into the mic jack, right next to the speaker jack. Speaker is green, mic is pink or orange (or if it's a laptop use the other jack next to the one you are currently).

In Windows Explorer you can right-click on the drive and select 'Eject'.