Components: b450 tomahawk max, 1080 ti asus FE, ballistix 3200mhz c14, 3700x, ssd team group 240gb //// new motherboard: asus prime a520M-K (updated motherboard bios to latest, re installed gpu bios)
I've been having issues with my pc out of nowhere it began restarting over and over, at first it would let me get into the desktop but after 4 times it started looping the restart in logo screen i thought it was the ssd so I reinstalled windows and it started restarting again installed in a hdd and it worked but when i tried installing my nvidia drivers it didnt use my card (wouldnt load nvidia control panel) like it tried to, it did the restart of display as to trying to regognize the card and run the display through the driver, but went back to displaying image without using the driver (tried re installing in 3 different hard drives, usb one, ssd, and hdd and in some of them i would get the blue screen nvidia nvlddmkm.sys after installing the os) I got it to boot in a few of the reinstals so i went to device manager and it said under my gpu (1080 ti fe asus) code 43 which is usually a hardware problem I thought it was my pcie 3.0 port that was damaged,
so i switched to my secondary pcie2 16x (4x lanes) and the gpu worked accepted the driver and showed everything working in gpu-z, when before it didnt show any info on memory so its not the gpu (i hope and guess), obviously i thought it was the pcie 3.0 slot in my motherboard so i bought one and changed everything yesterday but it showed the same code 43 meaning its not my pcie 3.0 of main mother board so motherboard is fine gpu is fine ram sticks are fine cause im using them with my pcie 2,0 4x lanes rn and everything runs flawless storage is not the issue.. its driving me nutts, i dont know what it is and i cant play with a capped gpu lol im hugely capped by the 4x lanes of that 2.0 port which is a supreme L... is it my cpu? or the lanes that the cpu uses to communicate with pcie 3.0 but from the cpu? it must be a cpu problem right? how could i test this for sure? confusing because the cpu works flawlessly in everything else and its stable
Never had any issues with any of the components before, no weird temperatures and everything has been stable for almost a year.
What my gpu shows in the pcie 2.0 4x lanes:
Course of action if its my cpu:
replacing my cpu (3700x) with a next gen 5600x with my old motherboard (b450 tomahawk)
but i dont want to just keep buying components blindly to fix it
Course of action if its my gpu:
cry
Main question:
How can I test if my cpu is the problem without replacing it with another ryzen as I dont have access to another one rn?
I've been having issues with my pc out of nowhere it began restarting over and over, at first it would let me get into the desktop but after 4 times it started looping the restart in logo screen i thought it was the ssd so I reinstalled windows and it started restarting again installed in a hdd and it worked but when i tried installing my nvidia drivers it didnt use my card (wouldnt load nvidia control panel) like it tried to, it did the restart of display as to trying to regognize the card and run the display through the driver, but went back to displaying image without using the driver (tried re installing in 3 different hard drives, usb one, ssd, and hdd and in some of them i would get the blue screen nvidia nvlddmkm.sys after installing the os) I got it to boot in a few of the reinstals so i went to device manager and it said under my gpu (1080 ti fe asus) code 43 which is usually a hardware problem I thought it was my pcie 3.0 port that was damaged,
so i switched to my secondary pcie2 16x (4x lanes) and the gpu worked accepted the driver and showed everything working in gpu-z, when before it didnt show any info on memory so its not the gpu (i hope and guess), obviously i thought it was the pcie 3.0 slot in my motherboard so i bought one and changed everything yesterday but it showed the same code 43 meaning its not my pcie 3.0 of main mother board so motherboard is fine gpu is fine ram sticks are fine cause im using them with my pcie 2,0 4x lanes rn and everything runs flawless storage is not the issue.. its driving me nutts, i dont know what it is and i cant play with a capped gpu lol im hugely capped by the 4x lanes of that 2.0 port which is a supreme L... is it my cpu? or the lanes that the cpu uses to communicate with pcie 3.0 but from the cpu? it must be a cpu problem right? how could i test this for sure? confusing because the cpu works flawlessly in everything else and its stable
Never had any issues with any of the components before, no weird temperatures and everything has been stable for almost a year.
What my gpu shows in the pcie 2.0 4x lanes:
Course of action if its my cpu:
replacing my cpu (3700x) with a next gen 5600x with my old motherboard (b450 tomahawk)
but i dont want to just keep buying components blindly to fix it
Course of action if its my gpu:
cry
Main question:
How can I test if my cpu is the problem without replacing it with another ryzen as I dont have access to another one rn?