- Jun 30, 2013
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So about two months ago I was playing WOW and suddenly my Pc started to reboot, then after checking many settings I realized it reboots more constantly when I alt+tab. No BSOD only a sudden turn off and after 2 seconds it restarts by itself. So I cleaned my pc, it was really dusty.
Time passed and this week the Overwatch open beta started and I was playing and my PC restarted again, I started to monitor my CPU temps using MSI afterburner and it reaches temperatures from 63-75ºC. I thought it was something weird, then I googled and people claim Blizzard games suddenly reboot their pc, I found a Diablo III forum and people were claming to have reboots on WOW too
I thought my CPU was overheating, because I live in latin america and we have had the whole last two months temperatures ranging from 34-42ºCelcius.
Yesterday I decided to stress test my CPU and GPU so I ran Prime 95 and
GPU test by geeks 3d, because they recommended them in some other threat here on Tom's Hardware.
So I ran on Prime 95 the "small FFT" because I was only worried about temperatures when under heavy load, and I monitored with OpenHardware, it loaded the 4 cores at 100% and reached temperatures of 90ºC I ran it for about an hour and it didn't reboot.
Then I tried the GpuTest Windows x64 0.7.0 and discovered that running the test FurMark (OpenGL 2.1/3.0) on:
Fullscreen at 1280x720 or 1920x1080 it reboots the PC.
Windowed 1920x1080 reboots PC
I tried all the other tests at 1280x720 and 1920x1080 and fullscreen and windowed and it didn't reboot and had good FPS about 84.
And today I tried to clean my GPU and it was clean, so I tried to reset bios by putting the mobo battery upside down and wait 10 minutes, then start the PC, and it started to make a continuos "beep" sound and the PC wouldn't start, so I tried to test all the internal components, cleaned ram, changed the ram, cleaned the electrical connections and PCI express and the pc woudln't start and the "beep" would continue. After reading my mobo manual I tried to reset the bios with the jumpers for 3 seconds and a metal screwdriver and it didn't work, the continuos "Beep" continued, so I thought my "Seasonic sII 12 Bonze PSU" was damaged and connected the previous "Monster PSU" and it started, and after that I tried again the "Seasonic sII 12 Bonze PSU" and it booted the PC right and changed the Bios settings to default optimized in order to completly reset the bios and I've been using the Seasonic sII 12 Bonze PSU today.
After all the mess with the PSU and BIOS I decided to run the GPU stress tests again and the results has been the same as reported above, my PC keeps rebooting when testing the FurMark (OpenGL 2.1/3.0).
What does it mean?
What other test do you recommend to detect and change the problem?
Is my PSU or GPU done for? both are faily new I got them in 2014
Could it posibly be the mobo? it's pretty old I bought it in 2012 and I had to update the bios when I installed the GTX 970 back in 2014
Should I keep gaming at 720 windowed mode and I should have anymore reboots?
My specs:
Gigabyte B75M-DV3
Intel Core i5 3450
Corsair Vengeance 8gb
MSI GTX 970
Adata SSD 480Gb
Cooler Master HAF 912
Razer Abysus & Ozone Strike Pro
Windows 7 64
Time passed and this week the Overwatch open beta started and I was playing and my PC restarted again, I started to monitor my CPU temps using MSI afterburner and it reaches temperatures from 63-75ºC. I thought it was something weird, then I googled and people claim Blizzard games suddenly reboot their pc, I found a Diablo III forum and people were claming to have reboots on WOW too
I thought my CPU was overheating, because I live in latin america and we have had the whole last two months temperatures ranging from 34-42ºCelcius.
Yesterday I decided to stress test my CPU and GPU so I ran Prime 95 and
GPU test by geeks 3d, because they recommended them in some other threat here on Tom's Hardware.
So I ran on Prime 95 the "small FFT" because I was only worried about temperatures when under heavy load, and I monitored with OpenHardware, it loaded the 4 cores at 100% and reached temperatures of 90ºC I ran it for about an hour and it didn't reboot.
Then I tried the GpuTest Windows x64 0.7.0 and discovered that running the test FurMark (OpenGL 2.1/3.0) on:
Fullscreen at 1280x720 or 1920x1080 it reboots the PC.
Windowed 1920x1080 reboots PC
I tried all the other tests at 1280x720 and 1920x1080 and fullscreen and windowed and it didn't reboot and had good FPS about 84.
And today I tried to clean my GPU and it was clean, so I tried to reset bios by putting the mobo battery upside down and wait 10 minutes, then start the PC, and it started to make a continuos "beep" sound and the PC wouldn't start, so I tried to test all the internal components, cleaned ram, changed the ram, cleaned the electrical connections and PCI express and the pc woudln't start and the "beep" would continue. After reading my mobo manual I tried to reset the bios with the jumpers for 3 seconds and a metal screwdriver and it didn't work, the continuos "Beep" continued, so I thought my "Seasonic sII 12 Bonze PSU" was damaged and connected the previous "Monster PSU" and it started, and after that I tried again the "Seasonic sII 12 Bonze PSU" and it booted the PC right and changed the Bios settings to default optimized in order to completly reset the bios and I've been using the Seasonic sII 12 Bonze PSU today.
After all the mess with the PSU and BIOS I decided to run the GPU stress tests again and the results has been the same as reported above, my PC keeps rebooting when testing the FurMark (OpenGL 2.1/3.0).
What does it mean?
What other test do you recommend to detect and change the problem?
Is my PSU or GPU done for? both are faily new I got them in 2014
Could it posibly be the mobo? it's pretty old I bought it in 2012 and I had to update the bios when I installed the GTX 970 back in 2014
Should I keep gaming at 720 windowed mode and I should have anymore reboots?
My specs:
Gigabyte B75M-DV3
Intel Core i5 3450
Corsair Vengeance 8gb
MSI GTX 970
Adata SSD 480Gb
Cooler Master HAF 912
Razer Abysus & Ozone Strike Pro
Windows 7 64
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