- Jan 21, 2013
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&&&&&&****** (Hopefully) Final word: It was the power supply, try swapping your power supply with a healthy one (possibly a beefier one, unless you're sure... and you've actually checked... that you're over the power you need) if you experience problems like I did.
Good morning, I wanted to rule out my graphics card as my current point of failure and was hoping you guys could help me solidify my theory.
----What I have:
Currently I'm running an intel 3570k, and an ASUS HD 7850 with a corsair HX750 PSU. I have a 180 GB Intel 330 SSD as my main drive with a caviar blue 500 gb secondary. I built this system about seven months ago and it performed gloriously in so many aspects (including very stressful games.)
---My problems, symptoms
The PSU should be overkill for this system but over the last 7 days I've had 10 crashes. Each time it's when I started to do something that stressed the system..
Example of the problem: Start World of warcraft, change settings to absolute lowest, cap fps at 25, run around for a minute... stop, check temps, 30 degrees for CPU and GPU, then go back. run around for a few more seconds, change the settings to just medium, hit apply and INSTANTLY black screen. not even a BSOD (I disabled the immediate restart option to try to see the blue screen)
---What I've done
Blew out the case with compressed air, cleaned the filter on the front. It needed this, without a doubt. Resolved nothing, hopefully wasn't the reason for my persistent problem.
Read a lot of forums, tried a lot of things. I just replaced my pci-e cable on the modular PSU in hopes that I'd either discover a loose connection or replace a faulty cable. no go, WoW Crashed before I even made it past the log in screen.
I downloaded Heaven DX11 benchmark, computer crashed about 3 seconds after it started playing.
I checked my temperatures (with Speedfan), my CPU is idling around 30C and my GPU at 27C.
I removed my RAM and reseated it, no fix, and then I did the built in Windows memory test as well, but it returned with no error. (I kept trying to run memtest86 but am too dumb to burn the iso to a cd somehow, every time I try to boot from the cd it just starts Windows)
In eventviewer it says there have been ~9 41 kernel error in the last week, with 7 today, but it doesn't have enough time to record anything. I turned off the "immediate restart" thing in admin tools, in hopes of seeing a BSOD message, but no change. Instant black, then instant restart.
I deleted a lot of excess files, defragged my SSD, uninstalled excess programs, updated windows and the drivers for my graphics card.
Based on my limited researching capabilities, it's either the PSU or the GPU, and based on the suddenness of all these problems I'd imagine it's a power problem.
What should I do? Corsair's customer service solution is just send it back but I don't want to pay shipping unless I can be sure it's the problem
Good morning, I wanted to rule out my graphics card as my current point of failure and was hoping you guys could help me solidify my theory.
----What I have:
Currently I'm running an intel 3570k, and an ASUS HD 7850 with a corsair HX750 PSU. I have a 180 GB Intel 330 SSD as my main drive with a caviar blue 500 gb secondary. I built this system about seven months ago and it performed gloriously in so many aspects (including very stressful games.)
---My problems, symptoms
The PSU should be overkill for this system but over the last 7 days I've had 10 crashes. Each time it's when I started to do something that stressed the system..
Example of the problem: Start World of warcraft, change settings to absolute lowest, cap fps at 25, run around for a minute... stop, check temps, 30 degrees for CPU and GPU, then go back. run around for a few more seconds, change the settings to just medium, hit apply and INSTANTLY black screen. not even a BSOD (I disabled the immediate restart option to try to see the blue screen)
---What I've done
Blew out the case with compressed air, cleaned the filter on the front. It needed this, without a doubt. Resolved nothing, hopefully wasn't the reason for my persistent problem.
Read a lot of forums, tried a lot of things. I just replaced my pci-e cable on the modular PSU in hopes that I'd either discover a loose connection or replace a faulty cable. no go, WoW Crashed before I even made it past the log in screen.
I downloaded Heaven DX11 benchmark, computer crashed about 3 seconds after it started playing.
I checked my temperatures (with Speedfan), my CPU is idling around 30C and my GPU at 27C.
I removed my RAM and reseated it, no fix, and then I did the built in Windows memory test as well, but it returned with no error. (I kept trying to run memtest86 but am too dumb to burn the iso to a cd somehow, every time I try to boot from the cd it just starts Windows)
In eventviewer it says there have been ~9 41 kernel error in the last week, with 7 today, but it doesn't have enough time to record anything. I turned off the "immediate restart" thing in admin tools, in hopes of seeing a BSOD message, but no change. Instant black, then instant restart.
I deleted a lot of excess files, defragged my SSD, uninstalled excess programs, updated windows and the drivers for my graphics card.
Based on my limited researching capabilities, it's either the PSU or the GPU, and based on the suddenness of all these problems I'd imagine it's a power problem.
What should I do? Corsair's customer service solution is just send it back but I don't want to pay shipping unless I can be sure it's the problem
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