Question Gamee Freezing and PC no display

[swertal]

My PC keep freezing when on high load usage (ex: gaming) but can still hear the game audio running, and needed end task to solve the issue. GPU temp are around 70-80°C, an old 2015 Zotac GTX 1060 6GB with one dead fan, after replace the original fan still not fix the problem, so i run my GPU with one fan for over a 3 months by now. After not find the issue, i tried benchmark to see the problem, all good until GPU test benchmark, after around 5-10 mins run smooth, then PC instantly shutdown. I turned the PC on, no booting, no display, the fans still on (all of them), keyboard and mouse not connected. I've tried everything, disassemble everything and put back on not working. I assume the problem is old GPU card that maybe fried? or failing PSU? and don't have other component to try myself.

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600 (March 2023)
CPU cooler: -
Motherboard: ASRock B450M-HDV (March 2023)
Ram: Corsair VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 RAM 16GB (2x8GB) (2020)
SSD/HDD: Crucial BX500 512GB
GPU: Zotac GTX 1060 6GB (used for gaming since 2015)
PSU: Antec VP500PC 500W 80+ (2017)
Chassis: -
OS: Windows 11
Monitor: LG 22" IPS LED

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

I've tried everything, disassemble everything and put back on not working.
Might want to list everything so we're not suggesting steps you've already taken prior to this thread's creation.

If you suspect the PSU to be the issue, you should source(borrow, not buy) a reliably built PSU from a friend or neighbor with at least 550W of power for the entire system, then see if the issue persists.

 

[swertal]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

I've tried everything, disassemble everything and put back on not working.
Might want to list everything so we're not suggesting steps you've already taken prior to this thread's creation.

If you suspect the PSU to be the issue, you should source(borrow, not buy) a reliably built PSU from a friend or neighbor with at least 550W of power for the entire system, then see if the issue persists.

I've tried using only 1 RAM for both sides, cold boot PC, that's all, don't have iGPU aswell. Do you think it has problem with GPU?

 

[kira-faye]

Sounds like the GPU. It was running hot, crashing, you stress tested it with a dead fan and it popped.

 

[swertal]

Sounds like the GPU. It was running hot, crashing, you stress tested it with a dead fan and it popped.

the last time i use when crashed happen, the temp stay at 76, i'm maximize the fan speed to 100% after reaching certain temps, and been running only with one fan for 3 months for now.

 

[kira-faye]

the last time i use when crashed happen, the temp stay at 76, i'm maximize the fan speed to 100% after reaching certain temps, and been running only with one fan for 3 months for now.

The thing is that's only telling you the GPU core temperature - it's not the only thing on the board that has to stay cool. If the VRAM gets too hot, it dies. If the voltage regulators get too hot, they die. Good GPU core, bad VREG or VRAM, dead card.

Running the card with a dead fan likely lead to instability. Running it hard with a dead fan through the benchmark may have killed it for good. You should never run hardware with less cooling than it was designed for.

 

[Ralston18]

@swertal

And I will add the suggestion to take a few photographs showing the inside of the case and indicate air flow directions. Intake & exhaust.

Even if fans are running 100% there could be, for some reason, little or no air flow somewhere. Some airflow restriction or bottleneck being the result. And something (per the preceding post, gets hot as a consequence.

May take several over-heating cycles before any given component goes "poof". 🙁

You can post the photographs via imgur (www.imgur.com).

Also: thermal paste: what, if anything, has been done to renew thermal paste? If thermal paste was redone what brand thermal paste was used and how was the paste applied?