Hey guys, I'm new to the forum. I'm not really a PC guy, but I am an electronics engineering student so I have knowledge of how it all works.
I'm posting this question under the graphics card section, but I don't really know what the problem is, so I'm not sure this is the right place.
I bought a custom PC second hand a few years back and got some good use out of it, just uni stuff, 3D modeling, and a little gaming. The mobo (I think) on that system crapped out with sparking sounds and restarting every few minutes. A friend gave me his old case and mobo with RAM and I swapped over my gpu, psu, and hard drives.
My current setup is :
Gigabyte ga-990fxa-ud3 motherboard
Corsair 16gb(4x4gb) DDR4 Vengence RAM
AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor
Corsair Watercooler
Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3 GB Video Card
Corsair VS650W Power Supply
Samsung 840 Series SSD and 2x WD HDDs
All in a Corsair case with ample cooling.
The problem I'm having is it randomly restarts. No BSOD, no errors. The only thing in the event viewer in Kernel-Power 41, which isn't much help. All temps are fine, below 30C.
I have disconnected everything from the mobo except the psu and ssd and it still does it. I have measured and logged all of the outputs from the PSU (12V, 5V, 3.3V etc) and none of them change when it reboots. I assumed 650W is enough for my system and I think its a high-quality PSU I think.
No overclocking.
I have updated to Windows 10 from 7 a few months back and don't think the issue occurred in windows 7 but didn't start immediately after the change either.
I have updated the gpu drivers.
I have also recently noticed that it seems to reboot whenever I start up a game, or the novabench benchmarking gets to the GPU phase. But it also does it randomly. Sometimes after a minute. Sometimes an hour. Even when it's idling with no use.
I'm completely stuck and don't have the money to spend buying new components that may or may not fix the issue.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Matt
I'm posting this question under the graphics card section, but I don't really know what the problem is, so I'm not sure this is the right place.
I bought a custom PC second hand a few years back and got some good use out of it, just uni stuff, 3D modeling, and a little gaming. The mobo (I think) on that system crapped out with sparking sounds and restarting every few minutes. A friend gave me his old case and mobo with RAM and I swapped over my gpu, psu, and hard drives.
My current setup is :
Gigabyte ga-990fxa-ud3 motherboard
Corsair 16gb(4x4gb) DDR4 Vengence RAM
AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor
Corsair Watercooler
Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3 GB Video Card
Corsair VS650W Power Supply
Samsung 840 Series SSD and 2x WD HDDs
All in a Corsair case with ample cooling.
The problem I'm having is it randomly restarts. No BSOD, no errors. The only thing in the event viewer in Kernel-Power 41, which isn't much help. All temps are fine, below 30C.
I have disconnected everything from the mobo except the psu and ssd and it still does it. I have measured and logged all of the outputs from the PSU (12V, 5V, 3.3V etc) and none of them change when it reboots. I assumed 650W is enough for my system and I think its a high-quality PSU I think.
No overclocking.
I have updated to Windows 10 from 7 a few months back and don't think the issue occurred in windows 7 but didn't start immediately after the change either.
I have updated the gpu drivers.
I have also recently noticed that it seems to reboot whenever I start up a game, or the novabench benchmarking gets to the GPU phase. But it also does it randomly. Sometimes after a minute. Sometimes an hour. Even when it's idling with no use.
I'm completely stuck and don't have the money to spend buying new components that may or may not fix the issue.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Matt