Hi Everyone,
I'm new to this forum, but not new to building PC's, and fixing them. I would not consider myself a professional of any means, but when my family members need a fix, I'm usually the one being called.
HOWEVER, I've encountered something I completely do not understand, and makes zero sense to me.
I built a gaming PC about a year ago, pretty good specs, (see end of post).
Here's what has happened.
Once built, the PC was working fine, everything runs smooth and fast. It was not until about 2 weeks ago, where my computer starts acting wierd. Initially it would just restart on me randomly. A day or two later, these restarts become more frequent, and now it's constantly freezing on me, when I surf Chrome, or play Dota or D2R. Sometimes I can go a full 1hr before it freezes, other times it would freeze within 5 min of starting a game.
I've run diagnostics on my RAM, CPU and my SSD, and windows did not find any problem. But the freezing kept persisting and now it's so frequent, I'm concerned it will continue to accellerate. Of course i want to avoid buying a whole new set of parts, so I start pulling hardware and testing them individually on my other rigs. So far no luck, until I did something as a hail mary to find out of my GPU was the actual issue, which of course is my most expensive component.
As my last ditch effort, I pulled the DP from my GPU and inserted it into the motherboard, thinking maybe it's be GPU locking up my PC (which I pray not). And was running on integrated graphics. Dota 2 was choppy, screen was 60hz. However, my PC is not locking up anymore, it's been operational for 8 hours straight with no freezing. So now I'm thinking it's my GPU that's the problem. I then opened up GeForce Experience, and performed a driver installation. Screen flickered a few times, and all of a sudden im back to 240 hz, and my games were running perfectly. But here's the thing, I never plugged in the DP directly into the GPU.
I ran heaven benchmark, and it was picking up the GPU graphics instead of integrated graphics. My PC still hasn't locked up or frozen for about 6 hours so far, running very strong. The GPU is still plugged into the PCI-E in the MOBO, but no monitors are plugged into the GPU.
How is this even possible?
Specs:
ASUS z490-v PRIME ATX MOBO
MSI RTX 3080
i7 - 10700k w/ 240 MM AOI cooler
32 GB G.Skill Trident 3000mhz RAM
850 NZXT Gold PSU
1TB NVME SSD Samsung EVO 970 (Operating)
1TB Western Digital NVME
I'm new to this forum, but not new to building PC's, and fixing them. I would not consider myself a professional of any means, but when my family members need a fix, I'm usually the one being called.
HOWEVER, I've encountered something I completely do not understand, and makes zero sense to me.
I built a gaming PC about a year ago, pretty good specs, (see end of post).
Here's what has happened.
Once built, the PC was working fine, everything runs smooth and fast. It was not until about 2 weeks ago, where my computer starts acting wierd. Initially it would just restart on me randomly. A day or two later, these restarts become more frequent, and now it's constantly freezing on me, when I surf Chrome, or play Dota or D2R. Sometimes I can go a full 1hr before it freezes, other times it would freeze within 5 min of starting a game.
I've run diagnostics on my RAM, CPU and my SSD, and windows did not find any problem. But the freezing kept persisting and now it's so frequent, I'm concerned it will continue to accellerate. Of course i want to avoid buying a whole new set of parts, so I start pulling hardware and testing them individually on my other rigs. So far no luck, until I did something as a hail mary to find out of my GPU was the actual issue, which of course is my most expensive component.
As my last ditch effort, I pulled the DP from my GPU and inserted it into the motherboard, thinking maybe it's be GPU locking up my PC (which I pray not). And was running on integrated graphics. Dota 2 was choppy, screen was 60hz. However, my PC is not locking up anymore, it's been operational for 8 hours straight with no freezing. So now I'm thinking it's my GPU that's the problem. I then opened up GeForce Experience, and performed a driver installation. Screen flickered a few times, and all of a sudden im back to 240 hz, and my games were running perfectly. But here's the thing, I never plugged in the DP directly into the GPU.
I ran heaven benchmark, and it was picking up the GPU graphics instead of integrated graphics. My PC still hasn't locked up or frozen for about 6 hours so far, running very strong. The GPU is still plugged into the PCI-E in the MOBO, but no monitors are plugged into the GPU.
How is this even possible?
Specs:
ASUS z490-v PRIME ATX MOBO
MSI RTX 3080
i7 - 10700k w/ 240 MM AOI cooler
32 GB G.Skill Trident 3000mhz RAM
850 NZXT Gold PSU
1TB NVME SSD Samsung EVO 970 (Operating)
1TB Western Digital NVME
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