Hello. I assembled my first build yesterday after an afternoon riddled with issues trying to get it to run. When it finally did, I found it horribly unstable. Doing a bit of more troubleshooting, I found I had my network drivers out of date, and also that the system ran a lot better after I took out my GPU.
After I took it out, my system ran a lot smoother and I was able to test it by running Minecraft for a while in the highest graphics settings, if that helps. I tried to then connect the GPU back in, but the instability came back full force. I couldn't have Chrome open for much longer before I got bluescreened.
One thing that struck me as odd and maybe dangerous of the building process was that my PSU only provided a 6 + 2 pin PCI-E connector (or rather two but I only have one GPU so) for my 6 pin video card. I didn't read anything for or against this online so I connected them anyway, leaving the four extra pins hanging. Maybe the GPU isn't getting enough power?
In any case, here's my build's specs:
Please note that I don't have a monitor right now, but I should be receiving one within the week so if you have any tentative solution or suggestion please let me hear it and I'll try it as soon as I can.
If it helps, I tested my build by connecting the motherboard or the GPU, whenever it was present, to my TV via HDMI, at a resolution of 1920x1080.
I also checked the temperature of the components with the BIOS and they never exceeded 30C.
In any case, any help is immensely appreciated. Thank you in advance.
EDIT: Typos and got the numbers of pins wrong.
After I took it out, my system ran a lot smoother and I was able to test it by running Minecraft for a while in the highest graphics settings, if that helps. I tried to then connect the GPU back in, but the instability came back full force. I couldn't have Chrome open for much longer before I got bluescreened.
One thing that struck me as odd and maybe dangerous of the building process was that my PSU only provided a 6 + 2 pin PCI-E connector (or rather two but I only have one GPU so) for my 6 pin video card. I didn't read anything for or against this online so I connected them anyway, leaving the four extra pins hanging. Maybe the GPU isn't getting enough power?
In any case, here's my build's specs:
- MOTHER: Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro WIFI
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon iGPU
- GPU: MSI Nvidia GTX 1650 Super Gaming X
- RAM: 1x HyperX Fury 16GB 2666MHz RGB (DDR4)
- PSU: EVGA 500W BR 80+ Bronze
- HDD: Seagate Skyhawk 1TB
- SDD: Western Digital Green 240GB
- CASE: Sentey J20 (has four 12mm LED fans)
Please note that I don't have a monitor right now, but I should be receiving one within the week so if you have any tentative solution or suggestion please let me hear it and I'll try it as soon as I can.
If it helps, I tested my build by connecting the motherboard or the GPU, whenever it was present, to my TV via HDMI, at a resolution of 1920x1080.
I also checked the temperature of the components with the BIOS and they never exceeded 30C.
In any case, any help is immensely appreciated. Thank you in advance.
EDIT: Typos and got the numbers of pins wrong.
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