6 months ago I purchased all the components to build a PC. My brother helped my pick the parts and build the PC (he's an avid pc builder). I didn't have any problems until about 2 months ago. While gaming (usually COD) the pc screen would randomly stop working, go black OR the screen would make a bizarre looking image (see link to pic). The rest of the pc seemed to keep running just fine and all other hardware components were continuing to receive power. Sometimes the PC would turn off automatically after a few minutes on its own however some times I would need to hard reset the computer. When the problems started to occur I noticed that I could play video games for multiple hours and then each time there was a random shut off, that time got shorter and shorter. 3+ hours to now about 15 minutes...
Some weird occurrences I've experienced in the past 2 months. Not sure if these problems stem from the same cause or it's 2 separate problems which I find hard to believe. I've gotten a couple of BSOD's (PFN LIST CORRUPT) (DRIVE IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL) (DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION) all while the computer was idling and/or I was gaming/browsing web. I heard faulty hard drivers can sometimes cause what I'm experiencing. ODDLY enough I disconnected my only HDD and would you believe it, it looked like the random shut offs immediately ceased to exist... at least for a while. Maybe a week of 3+ hours of game play per day the computer was running just fine however after about a week the problems started to occur again. The HDD is still not connected to my computer.
View: https://imgur.com/a/QMnIVFJ
Additional Notes-
I tried multiple monitors
I ran memtest86 multiple times and the windows memory diagnostic tool. No errors.
I thought it might be a PSU problem so I purchased a new psu with higher wattage. (Gigabyte 750 from a 650W)
I reinstalled Windows 10 from scratch and updated it.
I updated to the newest BIOS version.
Event Viewer Shows Kernel Power Event ID 41 (63)
GPU Stress Test (Furmark) runs for maybe 10 seconds and then screen shuts off. The GPU temp did not go above 65 Celsius before shutting down.
I just did the GPU stress test before writing this post... so after all of this do you guys think maybe I have a bad GPU?
MOBO ~ Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite Wifi
CPU ~ AMD Ryzen 5 3400
GPU ~ EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
PSU ~ Gigabyte P750GM
Memory ~ 4x8GB G.Skill TridentZ RBG 3600
Some weird occurrences I've experienced in the past 2 months. Not sure if these problems stem from the same cause or it's 2 separate problems which I find hard to believe. I've gotten a couple of BSOD's (PFN LIST CORRUPT) (DRIVE IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL) (DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION) all while the computer was idling and/or I was gaming/browsing web. I heard faulty hard drivers can sometimes cause what I'm experiencing. ODDLY enough I disconnected my only HDD and would you believe it, it looked like the random shut offs immediately ceased to exist... at least for a while. Maybe a week of 3+ hours of game play per day the computer was running just fine however after about a week the problems started to occur again. The HDD is still not connected to my computer.
View: https://imgur.com/a/QMnIVFJ
Additional Notes-
I tried multiple monitors
I ran memtest86 multiple times and the windows memory diagnostic tool. No errors.
I thought it might be a PSU problem so I purchased a new psu with higher wattage. (Gigabyte 750 from a 650W)
I reinstalled Windows 10 from scratch and updated it.
I updated to the newest BIOS version.
Event Viewer Shows Kernel Power Event ID 41 (63)
GPU Stress Test (Furmark) runs for maybe 10 seconds and then screen shuts off. The GPU temp did not go above 65 Celsius before shutting down.
I just did the GPU stress test before writing this post... so after all of this do you guys think maybe I have a bad GPU?
MOBO ~ Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite Wifi
CPU ~ AMD Ryzen 5 3400
GPU ~ EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
PSU ~ Gigabyte P750GM
Memory ~ 4x8GB G.Skill TridentZ RBG 3600
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