I built my first PC a couple of months ago and was pretty pleased with the result, and bought various games from steam, including Bioshock Infinite. This all worked nicely, and then I bought Far Cry 4, but as I had scrimped on the graphics card a bit (not clever, I know), I had to drop the quality right down to get anywhere close to 30fps, which was very frustrating.
I recently I decided to upgrade my graphics card and move from hdd to ssd, in a hope to be able to play all my games on max settings at 2560 x 1440, so I got a Samsung 840 evo 250gb ssd, and a Radeon r9 295x2 in a hope to future-proof my PC for a bit. Installation of both components has gone off without a hitch, and now Far Cry 4 looks beautiful and plays with no problem. However, I started up Bioshock Infinite and went into the settings to increase them, and the computer suddenly restarted without warning. I tried again, with the same result. I then tried playing the game on the settings it was already on, and after loading the game up, I walked forward and the PC restarted again.
I tried to play Just Cause 2, and that worked fine up until I tried to change the settings on the in-game menu, at which point the PC restarted. I don't know whether the problem is with steam, as I have the hard copy of FC4 and that works fine, or whether it's a power problem, or something else.
I entered the BIOS when it restarted, and the CPU temperature was only 46*C, all my drivers are up to date, and I have changed the system failure settings so the PC shouldn't restart instantly, it should display the blue screen with the error code on it, but it hasn't worked for whatever reason.
My PC specs are:
CPU: AMD FX 6300
GPU: Radeon R9 295x2
Power Supply: EVGA 500w
Any help or ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks
I recently I decided to upgrade my graphics card and move from hdd to ssd, in a hope to be able to play all my games on max settings at 2560 x 1440, so I got a Samsung 840 evo 250gb ssd, and a Radeon r9 295x2 in a hope to future-proof my PC for a bit. Installation of both components has gone off without a hitch, and now Far Cry 4 looks beautiful and plays with no problem. However, I started up Bioshock Infinite and went into the settings to increase them, and the computer suddenly restarted without warning. I tried again, with the same result. I then tried playing the game on the settings it was already on, and after loading the game up, I walked forward and the PC restarted again.
I tried to play Just Cause 2, and that worked fine up until I tried to change the settings on the in-game menu, at which point the PC restarted. I don't know whether the problem is with steam, as I have the hard copy of FC4 and that works fine, or whether it's a power problem, or something else.
I entered the BIOS when it restarted, and the CPU temperature was only 46*C, all my drivers are up to date, and I have changed the system failure settings so the PC shouldn't restart instantly, it should display the blue screen with the error code on it, but it hasn't worked for whatever reason.
My PC specs are:
CPU: AMD FX 6300
GPU: Radeon R9 295x2
Power Supply: EVGA 500w
Any help or ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks