Alright, so after 8 years I finally built a new computer, went quite a bit higher end here because I've been getting more and more into gaming in general. Everything was working perfectly at first, I had installed drivers for my video card and motherboard with the disc's that came with everything. After having it mostly configured I had downloaded a few games to try out. This was probably my first mistake as I hadn't bothered to stress test using any sort of program specifically meant for that.
I used starcraft 2 for my stress test, threw everything on ultra settings, and jumped into an ai game. Didn't even get 5 minutes in, literally made a few scv's, went to build a barracks and then boom, system crashes. I had an error message come up saying Asus surge protection shut down my pc due to a power surge to prevent damage. Okay cool, thanks I appreciate that.
Boot up my pc, and now I have these freaking horizontal graphical artifacts all over my screen. they're arranged in a grid pattern too. Readjusted my resolution and figured it was probably an out of date driver, so I had to reinstall that, and I even went to nvidia to grab an update for it. Restarted, and nothing.
I've heard a lot about overclocking, I know of it, I know what it can do, have I done anything myself to overclock my system? No, at least not that I'm aware of. Is my motherboard and gpu capable of it? Hell yeah, at least according to my BIOS and owner manual haha.
Anyways, as far as what I'm running...
CPU- Intel 4790k (liquid cooled with a corsair radiator/fan combo)
Motherboard- Asus maximus vii hero
gpu- msi twin frozr gtx 980 4gb ddr5
psu- corsair 850w 80 gold
RAM- 2x8gb pny
Case is a cooler master, this thing has 3 fans preinstalled, giving me a grand total of 7 fans (one of which are attached to a liquid radiator for the cpu)
os- windows 8.1
I don't think this info will matter too much, but I've also got a 240gb ssd which my os is on, and a 3tb harddrive for storage, and i also have a bluray optical drive.
After the crash I did notice that my gpu fans have stopped spinning, one was spinning but now they've both stopped and havent gone at all. Originally took that as a bad sign but figured that since I have a display that I'm typing on right now, that I couldn't have fried it. I feel like I've tried everything as I've been troubleshooting this almost all day. anybody have any suggestions?:/
UPDATE: I've successfully reinstalled the chipset and other motherboard drivers, but I'm having a ton of difficulty with nvidia drivers. I can install it just fine, but when I restart I get a code 43 in the device manager and shortly after it asks me to restart my computer again. I read on a post similar to this to manually uninstall, clear the registry, boot to safe mode, use software called guru3D to clean and restart my pc. After that reboot, I tried two different things. Installing the driver that came with my graphics card results in a white screen of death that requires rebooting. I let it sit all night to be sure, and I tried it again after waking up, same result. I booted into safe mode and tried installing the driver I downloaded straight from msi's site. That seemed to go through, but upon restarting I'm still getting the same code 43, and subsequent request to restart.
I used starcraft 2 for my stress test, threw everything on ultra settings, and jumped into an ai game. Didn't even get 5 minutes in, literally made a few scv's, went to build a barracks and then boom, system crashes. I had an error message come up saying Asus surge protection shut down my pc due to a power surge to prevent damage. Okay cool, thanks I appreciate that.
Boot up my pc, and now I have these freaking horizontal graphical artifacts all over my screen. they're arranged in a grid pattern too. Readjusted my resolution and figured it was probably an out of date driver, so I had to reinstall that, and I even went to nvidia to grab an update for it. Restarted, and nothing.
I've heard a lot about overclocking, I know of it, I know what it can do, have I done anything myself to overclock my system? No, at least not that I'm aware of. Is my motherboard and gpu capable of it? Hell yeah, at least according to my BIOS and owner manual haha.
Anyways, as far as what I'm running...
CPU- Intel 4790k (liquid cooled with a corsair radiator/fan combo)
Motherboard- Asus maximus vii hero
gpu- msi twin frozr gtx 980 4gb ddr5
psu- corsair 850w 80 gold
RAM- 2x8gb pny
Case is a cooler master, this thing has 3 fans preinstalled, giving me a grand total of 7 fans (one of which are attached to a liquid radiator for the cpu)
os- windows 8.1
I don't think this info will matter too much, but I've also got a 240gb ssd which my os is on, and a 3tb harddrive for storage, and i also have a bluray optical drive.
After the crash I did notice that my gpu fans have stopped spinning, one was spinning but now they've both stopped and havent gone at all. Originally took that as a bad sign but figured that since I have a display that I'm typing on right now, that I couldn't have fried it. I feel like I've tried everything as I've been troubleshooting this almost all day. anybody have any suggestions?:/
UPDATE: I've successfully reinstalled the chipset and other motherboard drivers, but I'm having a ton of difficulty with nvidia drivers. I can install it just fine, but when I restart I get a code 43 in the device manager and shortly after it asks me to restart my computer again. I read on a post similar to this to manually uninstall, clear the registry, boot to safe mode, use software called guru3D to clean and restart my pc. After that reboot, I tried two different things. Installing the driver that came with my graphics card results in a white screen of death that requires rebooting. I let it sit all night to be sure, and I tried it again after waking up, same result. I booted into safe mode and tried installing the driver I downloaded straight from msi's site. That seemed to go through, but upon restarting I'm still getting the same code 43, and subsequent request to restart.
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