[SOLVED] GTX 970 shutting down a few minutes into games

[Dylan1LTJ]

Hey, I just updated a few things on my old system and now I'm getting a monitor shut down and glitch out when in games for a few minutes. The system stays on but I have to reset it.

I just got an old 970 from my brother, and updated my 5+ year old 500w PSU to be able to use it (I tried with the old one and it would work with my old 760 as well as the 970, but after about an hour or two would shut the whole system off). I got the recommended Seasonic Focus Gold 550w, figuring that would be enough wattage based on what I've heard online and the fact I was running it okay before with the 500.

I mention all that just because I can't make sense what the specific issue is. I've tried putting my old 760 in and it runs fine, I get decent temperatures in the 970 (the highest it's gotten is 75c and I got better fans to help it after), I've updated the drivers and windows 10 to latest version, and I've been led to believe the PSU is more than good enough for a 970 according to Nvidia. Could the PSU be faulty in some way? Or should I just get 650w and it'll fix everything?

I still need to try updating the BIOS and I've seen people recommending deleting all old drivers and then downloading the new ones again, so I'll try that too, I just wanted to see if anyone had any other advice before I started opening it up again.

Specs:
FX-6300
Seasonic Focus Gold 550w
Old 8gb of RAM from a Dell computer lol (this is a weird one but I don't think it would affect any of this?)
Asus Strix GTX 970
Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P

Thanks for any help I can get!

 

[AshMetalRaf]

Hello!

500w is more than enough -- Yes, do the full installation after deleting all Nvidia drivers and manually deleting Nvidia folder in Local disk C.
Ram shouldn't be the case.
Also, what's your CPU temperature?

 

[Dylan1LTJ]

Alright I finished doing the whole drivers process through ddu. Was also going to update BIOS but apparently there’s only been one update since 2014, it’s a beta one, and it says it’s only for the CPU so I figured I wouldn’t need to. I tried running a game again and it did the same thing, shutting off the monitor again.

Running out of ideas what it could be, the only thing i can think to emphasize is the fact that it all ran perfectly with this 970 gpu before I replaced my old PSU. The crashes were every hour or so, sure, but that was the PSU’s fault, now i have a new PSU and my monitor shuts off in five minutes! That’s the only thing that is different, so i don’t know if i got a partially faulty one that for some reason can’t power the gpu during games or if the PCI-E cable is somewhat faulty in the same way ... idk.

If you have any other ideas that’d be great, if not though that’s alright.


Also with regards to the CPU, I don’t actually have a download to watch my CPU Temp, probably should get one, but i really don’t think that’s it, it runs the same way it has with my 760

 

[AshMetalRaf]

Hi! Apologies for late response

Since it started happening after changing the PSU, it could relate to power consumption or rather temperature.
I would highly recommend checking both CPU and GPU temperature. You can use MSI Afterburner for e.g.
If that's the case, tweak the fan speed to around 50%
Ideally, temp should range between 30c-35c on idle and +60c under load.
Kindly have a look and inform me.

Ash