Last month, I built my very first PC. It has the following specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-12700KF (w/ Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE LCD watercooling)
GPU: Asus ROG Strix RTX3080 10GB OC
MoBo: MSI MAG Z690 Edge WiFi DDR4
RAM: 2x 16GB Corsair Vengeance 3600MHz C16
OS Storage: Samsung 980 PRO 1TB M.2
Secondary storage: Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SATA
PSU: Corsair HX1000
Case: Corsair 5000D AIRFLOW
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Last night I bought Cyberpunk 2077 on the Steam Summer Sale.
Tonight I ran the game for the first time, first thing after booting my PC up. Spent about 40 minutes in the character creator, as one does, but before I was able to get done with creating said character, the PC just suddenly shut off (with an audible cut-off in the audio through my earphones, too), before trying to turn on again automatically.
The lights would turn on, but only my second DP screen would power up and get a feed, which was only a black screen with a small white stripe a little left of the middle of the screen.
I forced it to reset and reboot a few times, before then unplugging it and plugging it back in. Eventually, it would actually boot Windows again.
I tried Cyberpunk 2077 a few times more, but from that point on, it would just crash sporadically 5-10 minutes in max, sometimes immediately upon loading the menu, and every time I'd go through this process of trying to get Windows to boot, first getting that black screen with white stripe on my second DP screen, and usually it working after I re-plugged it and reset a few more times.
Fine, I thought, I will refund Cyberpunk 2077 and go play something else, something that I know has run stable (or as much as it can) during the month I now have had my PC: Star Citizen. This game, even with how big of a mess it is, has worked flawlessly for hours on end since I got this PC, running at max settings. So, I go and play it. Guess what? About 40 minutes in, the exact same hard shutdown.
I am not seeing anything out of the ordinary in terms of temperatures on any of my parts (through the iCUE dashboard & MSI GPU Tweak II). I am not doing any overclocking, or at least, I didn't touch any of the sort. I also have the latest BIOS and drivers I could find, have had them since I built the PC. Nothing changed, apart from me having run Cyberpunk 2077 now.
I am now very worried this means something has gotten irreversibly damaged in my brand new PC. Does anyone have any idea how to diagnose the potential issue, what I can do, or what the actual issue might be? It's honestly stressing me out extremely, this beast wasn't cheap...
For some background, I have read this might have to do with a faulty PSU finally getting tested enough to falter, and now being stuck like that. I have noticed from day one my PSU did "chirp" considerably, so might that be related.
CPU: Intel Core i7-12700KF (w/ Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE LCD watercooling)
GPU: Asus ROG Strix RTX3080 10GB OC
MoBo: MSI MAG Z690 Edge WiFi DDR4
RAM: 2x 16GB Corsair Vengeance 3600MHz C16
OS Storage: Samsung 980 PRO 1TB M.2
Secondary storage: Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SATA
PSU: Corsair HX1000
Case: Corsair 5000D AIRFLOW
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Last night I bought Cyberpunk 2077 on the Steam Summer Sale.
Tonight I ran the game for the first time, first thing after booting my PC up. Spent about 40 minutes in the character creator, as one does, but before I was able to get done with creating said character, the PC just suddenly shut off (with an audible cut-off in the audio through my earphones, too), before trying to turn on again automatically.
The lights would turn on, but only my second DP screen would power up and get a feed, which was only a black screen with a small white stripe a little left of the middle of the screen.
I forced it to reset and reboot a few times, before then unplugging it and plugging it back in. Eventually, it would actually boot Windows again.
I tried Cyberpunk 2077 a few times more, but from that point on, it would just crash sporadically 5-10 minutes in max, sometimes immediately upon loading the menu, and every time I'd go through this process of trying to get Windows to boot, first getting that black screen with white stripe on my second DP screen, and usually it working after I re-plugged it and reset a few more times.
Fine, I thought, I will refund Cyberpunk 2077 and go play something else, something that I know has run stable (or as much as it can) during the month I now have had my PC: Star Citizen. This game, even with how big of a mess it is, has worked flawlessly for hours on end since I got this PC, running at max settings. So, I go and play it. Guess what? About 40 minutes in, the exact same hard shutdown.
I am not seeing anything out of the ordinary in terms of temperatures on any of my parts (through the iCUE dashboard & MSI GPU Tweak II). I am not doing any overclocking, or at least, I didn't touch any of the sort. I also have the latest BIOS and drivers I could find, have had them since I built the PC. Nothing changed, apart from me having run Cyberpunk 2077 now.
I am now very worried this means something has gotten irreversibly damaged in my brand new PC. Does anyone have any idea how to diagnose the potential issue, what I can do, or what the actual issue might be? It's honestly stressing me out extremely, this beast wasn't cheap...
For some background, I have read this might have to do with a faulty PSU finally getting tested enough to falter, and now being stuck like that. I have noticed from day one my PSU did "chirp" considerably, so might that be related.