Graphics Card Failure

[stuperstrong]

So I recently moved, and since then have updated to the new drivers 16.7.2 so I'm not sure which might, if either are causing my issue.

I have started playing WoW again due to 7.0.3 being released and for the first couple days it worked fine, no crashes, no fps issues, nothing and now today my GPU has seemed to just stop working twice now. Screen goes black and says no signal found and looking at my GPU, it appears the fans have shut off as well. I know I've gone no where near hot enough to crash (about 70C tops). I did adjust my graphics settings, but that was yesterday and didn't have any issues then.

At that point I can wait awhile and it never kicked back on, I shut down my PC manually, then boot it back up and everything seems to work fine.

My build is below:
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/Jd6vHx

I am also using a Cyberpower UPS as well, but have been for months now. This issue literally just started today and nothing has changed other than my graphics settings, and it was working fine yesterday.

 

[hang-the-9]

So you rebooted, and the system works fine now? Wait and see if things happen again. Something happening once is not an issue yet.

 

[stuperstrong]

So you rebooted, and the system works fine now? Wait and see if things happen again. Something happening once is not an issue yet.

I had stated it happened twice, but since it's happened two other times, one right after another.

I'm wondering if it is a PSU issue as well. Every appears to stays on sans the GPU, which appears to shut off com (I assume this due to the fans shutting down). I was still able to send messages with no video, so everything else appears to stay functional (I checked my messages after I restarted to verify).

 

[hang-the-9]

Roll back to previous drivers, see if that fixes things. Also make sure you don't have any heat issues, case and fans should be clean.

Your power supply is a good quality one, so chances of it being bad is slim, same thing with the video card. You can also install Windows clean on a spare drive and test that way, see if it's a software issue. If it still crashes on that, you can just go back to using your original drive and go on to testing the card and power supply in another system, or new ones in yours to see if that fixes the issues.

 

[Testiculese]

Last night Bliz did a patch that broke the game for many.. check out the official forums. Its bliz not you, give em time to ix it.

Changing the API from DX11 to DX9 is a work around for the time being.

 

[stuperstrong]

Last night Bliz did a patch that broke the game for many.. check out the official forums. Its bliz not you, give em time to ix it.

Changing the API from DX11 to DX9 is a work around for the time being.

I'll try this for now, if it's still an issue I'll go through Hang-the-9's steps.

Any chance you have a link to the post?

 

[stuperstrong]

Wasn't an issue today, switched from windows fullscreen to fullscreen and never had an issue.