Context:
Over the years that i've owned my PC various hardware components have outright eventually failed on me. First it was the original 8GB of RAM, 2nd the original PSU(that took me up to 6 months to properly diagnose and get replaced), 3rd the original GPU just decided die on me one day without warning; all of these things have happened over the previous 5 or so years with the point of this thread concerning the type of event that has been happening more consistently over the last 2 years with the last 12 days being the most "frustrating" of all such that i'm clueless as to exactly what is going on now
Another problem that has been plaguing me for 6+ months now is inconsistent booting(like not booting, giving me misleading beepcodes and after fiddling around with a number of things like disconnecting/reconnecting all power/data cables, reseating components etc... it would eventually start for me but then a few days to weeks later do the same thing again with random periods of working as things should.
Problem:
The actual problem at hand is that my GPU/video driver does the "driver crash and recover properly" action with the first few instances ever going back 4ish years and very rare up to now 1-5 every 2 days(not joking there) with periods of time in-between where it wouldn't occur for months. What exactly that has happened over the last 12ish days is related to this but much worse and something that i never knew could happen let alone know what to do about it. The first time that concerned me was when about 12 days ago "it appeared to be a typical driver crash and recover" but it wasn't and gave me a loss of video signal 3 times in a row all within 10-30sec then after the 3rd complete loss of video signal of which only a forced power off would get me back in; while this was occurring any audio playing back would be "glitchy" as if instantaneously my hardware was being maxed out but it wasn't. So i thought that was the first and only isolated case but it come back to bite me even worse with more "driver crashes and recoveries" at least 1 a day for the next week.
The 2nd "complete loss of video" occurred 4 days ago which naturally raised my alarm bells so i looked into various things like the windows event viewer logs and found "LMS cannot connect to Intel MEI driver"(google that for yourself to get an idea of what you can find solution wise which isn't mush aside from warranty returning/buying a new one or updating the corresponding drivers). Now in-between 4 days ago and last night(25/02/2019) the video driver would "crash and recover" around 5 times a day with the first bluescreen 2 days ago with a msg of something like "SPF_NON_CORRUPT" after the video driver failed to recover successfully obviously. Then it blue-screened again on me last night with the msg "video driver crashed and didn't recover successfully"
Now when it comes to tech things i'm not "stupid" as i've got things working again after they stop working and diagnosed other hardware/software problems with other PC's in the house but been able to do nothing about it:
So naturally one goes to google with a search phrase and finds "1001 solution threads" all of which are useless, so i tried to get the windows SDK debug tools installed to no avail as it gives me the msg "incorrect config" and closes the installer; So here's what i've tried:
note:
I will be able to provide any crash logs/files and maybe "screenshare, what ever method will work best" if it means i can understand what is going wrong and potentially what i can do to fix this frustrating issue!!!(i may still be in warranty return period for my GPU but i doubt that a new/replacement GPU will fix this as it's now erroring out windows itself so the software side of things is personally more to blame for this in my eyes)
Thanks, The-Creamster.
Over the years that i've owned my PC various hardware components have outright eventually failed on me. First it was the original 8GB of RAM, 2nd the original PSU(that took me up to 6 months to properly diagnose and get replaced), 3rd the original GPU just decided die on me one day without warning; all of these things have happened over the previous 5 or so years with the point of this thread concerning the type of event that has been happening more consistently over the last 2 years with the last 12 days being the most "frustrating" of all such that i'm clueless as to exactly what is going on now
Another problem that has been plaguing me for 6+ months now is inconsistent booting(like not booting, giving me misleading beepcodes and after fiddling around with a number of things like disconnecting/reconnecting all power/data cables, reseating components etc... it would eventually start for me but then a few days to weeks later do the same thing again with random periods of working as things should.
Problem:
The actual problem at hand is that my GPU/video driver does the "driver crash and recover properly" action with the first few instances ever going back 4ish years and very rare up to now 1-5 every 2 days(not joking there) with periods of time in-between where it wouldn't occur for months. What exactly that has happened over the last 12ish days is related to this but much worse and something that i never knew could happen let alone know what to do about it. The first time that concerned me was when about 12 days ago "it appeared to be a typical driver crash and recover" but it wasn't and gave me a loss of video signal 3 times in a row all within 10-30sec then after the 3rd complete loss of video signal of which only a forced power off would get me back in; while this was occurring any audio playing back would be "glitchy" as if instantaneously my hardware was being maxed out but it wasn't. So i thought that was the first and only isolated case but it come back to bite me even worse with more "driver crashes and recoveries" at least 1 a day for the next week.
The 2nd "complete loss of video" occurred 4 days ago which naturally raised my alarm bells so i looked into various things like the windows event viewer logs and found "LMS cannot connect to Intel MEI driver"(google that for yourself to get an idea of what you can find solution wise which isn't mush aside from warranty returning/buying a new one or updating the corresponding drivers). Now in-between 4 days ago and last night(25/02/2019) the video driver would "crash and recover" around 5 times a day with the first bluescreen 2 days ago with a msg of something like "SPF_NON_CORRUPT" after the video driver failed to recover successfully obviously. Then it blue-screened again on me last night with the msg "video driver crashed and didn't recover successfully"
Now when it comes to tech things i'm not "stupid" as i've got things working again after they stop working and diagnosed other hardware/software problems with other PC's in the house but been able to do nothing about it:
- the first was a LAN driver that suddenly stopped working all of a sudden and manually re-installing it would get it working again for a few hours at most before it disabled itself
- the second was something somehow "uninstalled(literally or just disabled and made it invisible to the user)" the third part security and then infected windows such that it "broke" the original user profile to the extent that it was rendered 100% un-usable and any subsequent accounts created were not able to be created as admins
So naturally one goes to google with a search phrase and finds "1001 solution threads" all of which are useless, so i tried to get the windows SDK debug tools installed to no avail as it gives me the msg "incorrect config" and closes the installer; So here's what i've tried:
- 2 video driver updates have dropped over the last week and those made no difference
- After the 3rd bluescreen i thought i would try safemode/system restore but found another problem that being safemode with networking but to my surprise no net connection even in that mode; so system restore it was which didn't take long to do.
note:
I will be able to provide any crash logs/files and maybe "screenshare, what ever method will work best" if it means i can understand what is going wrong and potentially what i can do to fix this frustrating issue!!!(i may still be in warranty return period for my GPU but i doubt that a new/replacement GPU will fix this as it's now erroring out windows itself so the software side of things is personally more to blame for this in my eyes)
Thanks, The-Creamster.
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