After pc case change PC crashing to Black Screen but fans are still running - nothing makes sense

Oct 25, 2018
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I would much appreciate any advice from you guys I googled a lot but nothing relevant found, or found, tried but doesn't help. This is driving me nuts a specially as this PC is also my work PC where I need stability a lot. Now it's just expensive garbage... Please please help me.

What's changed from last working setup:
* Changed PC case same size just better air flow, dust filters, more fans, design - midi-tower
* Changed CPU cooler from Intel stock to beefier Thermaltake and CPU temps goes 20 oC down in average - meaning it's mounted correctly...

Symptoms:
* System randomly crashes mostly on low to none load ~1-16 times per 4 hours
* Display in no-signal screen (disconnecting and reconnecting HDMI cable did not help)
* As display in "no-signal" unabl to get any error message to be pointed some direction.
* All fans are spinning as before (not on full but as before)
* HDDs very very low activity but I can still hear "chrunch" from time to time
* Onboard network card is blinking but PC is not pingable nor answering ARP.
* After crash not a single entry in windows logs at crash time.
* Sound stuck in short loop - like you know from BSOD crashes
* GPU temp ~40-50 oC roughly before crash and right after boot from GPU Meter.
* CPU temp ~35-50 oC roughly before crash and right after from BIOS.
* PCH temp ~38-50 oC roughly before crash and right after from BIOS.
* Not related but worth mention - my windows software Raid 1 (Mirror) partition is getting resynced all the time. As it's 4TB big resync takes ~1.5day and this PC now is not able to survive that long so it's constantly resyncing...
* It crashed 3 times while I write this post - atfer fresh boot in notepad GPU at 0% CPU at 4-6%

Specifications:
Note: I know, I know, it's ugly overused old fart PC with best GPU but it works great for me till now...
CPU: i7 860 @ 2.80GHz
MB : GigaByte P55M-UD2
RAM: 16GB - 4x4
GPU: Gigabyte RTX 2080Ti 11GB OC - 3 fans
PSU: Corsair HX1200 - 1200W Modular - bran new
SSD: 2x SSDs in Intel Raid 0 on Intel onboard HW controller (~600 MB/s)
HDD: 2x 12TB WD
HDD: 2x 3TB Seagate
Used Windows Software 2x Raid 1, 2x Raid 0, 4x Raid0 (~600MB/s) on parts of physical HDDs
1x BD-RW
1x DVD-RW
(8 SATA devices in total)
1GB NIC connected to 1GB infrastructure however due to internet link measured (max load ~600 MB/s)
OS: Widnows 7 Ultimate

What I tried:
* Checked all the cables ~4 times but no loose or broken cables.
* Checked and reinseted all cards (GPU and USB3 controller)
* Tried to wiggle CPU cooler but it's mouted tigt - tried even when running PC but it didn't trigger the crash.
* Tried to replace any cable which doesnt seems in perfect condition - (3 sata cables)
* Via AORUS changed maually GPU FAN speed curve to keep fan spinning all the time and increased speed if temp go higher than 50oC
* Via AORUS changed GPU target temp from default 84 to 75oC
* Mem test passed with 0 errors
* No crash triggered by 3D Mark 4 conseutive tests
* No crash triggered by Doom 2016 maxed out on 4K for 2 hours
* No crash triggered by OCCT
* No crash triggered by Cinebench Single Core benchmark
* 1 crash occured when runnig Cinebench all cores benmark - it happens 1 out of 16 consecutive runs - I was unable to replicate it so cinebench is posibly not an issue.


I've had stable machine for years.
I've decide to upgrade my old GTX1050 and 400W PSU with RTX2080Ti and 1200W PSU. It was still stable - I've working on it for ~4 days before I changed the case and CPU fan where all issues started.

 
Oct 25, 2018
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Disabling Haswell C1 and C6 states in BIOS resolved the issue.
It does not make much sense, maybe PSU go crazy from those power saving features while old one did not.. or maybe with old CPU cooler CPU was thermal throttling so much that to handle even "idle" loads of all the background processes (I have a lot of them running) didn't allow CPU to get to power saving C states... I'm just guessing or better said making up those explanations..
God knows what really happened but it did the trick. Now the PC is stable for whole day
 
Sep 15, 2018
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https://youtu.be/tRJYw9G_bSQ

I have what sounds like exactly the same problem, except I have no idea what is wrong...
Any help you could offer?
 
Sep 15, 2018
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I definitely did!! any other suggestions?