I don't know if this is the right subforum for this but here it goes. For the past two years I've been using a system that I built myself. Gaming computer. Its been working like a charm since then, until a couple of weeks ago. I was playing Rocket League when my display showed a solid color for about a second, and I hear a repeating sound, like when computers hang up and you hear the last second of audio repeatedly. The solid color and the static-like/repeating sound happen for about a second, and then the screen goes black, and then the monitor, or in this case TV, shows no input. I could still hear the audio but I had no image. All I can do at that moment is hit the reset button, although sometimes it resets on its own. It has also happened that the system reboots itself while watching Netflix, but this is instant. It doesn't include the solid color and display problem.
So it seems like there are two separate problems, or maybe just one with two instances.
Problem #1: Display goes dark for 1 second, solid color and static noise for 1 second, and then it just stops outputting anything. Happens while gaming, so far in Rocket League, League of Legends, and Insurgency. It also happened while I was editing a Word file once, which makes me think it's not a GPU problem, as Microsoft Word is hardly intensive, or not at all. I just hit the reset button, the boot device led on my motherboard comes on and computer restarts and works as usual, until the next time it crashes, or doesn't.
Problem #2: Happens while watching Netflix or Youtube videos. This is instant. No color and no audio issue. Computer just reboots on its own.
I have absolutely no idea about the causes of these issues. I know for a fact it's not temperatures, as I constantly keep and eye on them and just yesterday replaced the thermal paste on the CPU and the GPU. There aren't any weird capacitors on my motherboard. They all look fine and its a kinda heavy duty motherboard from ASUS, from the TUF line, whose components are supposedly military grade or some marketing crap like that. My power supply is a 650W so maybe it's not that either.
I've browsed a lot trying to find an answer to my problem, and on this website the closest issues to mine had answers like the display returning electricity through the cable to the computer thus making it act weird, which sounds a little preposterous, and something else about hardware. I might be slightly convinced that its the graphics card but not entirely sure. I have updated to the latest Nvidia drivers, if that's of any interest. I have also made sure everything is seated correctly in the motherboard and reset the CMOS with the cap thingy, twice. I also reset the BIOS to default settings, even though they already were that way. Just checked I didn't have any weird voltages or anything. I also ran MBAM and it came up clean.
Here are my specs
-AMD FX 8320 8 core processor, not overclocked and aircooled with a Cryonic H7. Stock clock is 3.7GHz
-ASUS 990FX AM3+ motherboard.
-ASUS GTX660 graphics card, not overclocked.
-Corsair Vengeance Pro RAM 16gb, two sticks of 8gb at 2400Mhz if I'm not mistaken. Not overclocked.
-Corsair TX650W power supply.
-1 Seagate 1TB drive and 1 WD Green 2TB drive.
-Windows 10
Computer is connected to a Samsung Smart TV via HDMI.
I hope you can help me find the solution to this problem. Unfortunately, if it comes to buying new hardware, it's not something I can do so easily. So I guess that if it's a hardware problem, sucks to be me.
UPDATE: I started running games in windowed mode and with a lower resolution. Problem seems to be gone. I'm starting to think it might be a Windows 10 issue, but also keeping my eye on the GPU.
UPDATE 2: Running games in windowed mode didn't fix the problem. I also deleted all Nvidia drivers and downloaded again. Problem still isn't fixed. I checked the event log for the last time it crashed and it shows a Kernel-Power ID 41 problem, which makes me think it might be power/PSU related. I connected the PC directly to the wall, as opposed to the power strip i would normally use. I will also format and reinstall Windows 10 to rule out any software problems. Will keep updating this thread. It's an incredibly frustrating problem and if someone else has it I want to help find a solution.
So it seems like there are two separate problems, or maybe just one with two instances.
Problem #1: Display goes dark for 1 second, solid color and static noise for 1 second, and then it just stops outputting anything. Happens while gaming, so far in Rocket League, League of Legends, and Insurgency. It also happened while I was editing a Word file once, which makes me think it's not a GPU problem, as Microsoft Word is hardly intensive, or not at all. I just hit the reset button, the boot device led on my motherboard comes on and computer restarts and works as usual, until the next time it crashes, or doesn't.
Problem #2: Happens while watching Netflix or Youtube videos. This is instant. No color and no audio issue. Computer just reboots on its own.
I have absolutely no idea about the causes of these issues. I know for a fact it's not temperatures, as I constantly keep and eye on them and just yesterday replaced the thermal paste on the CPU and the GPU. There aren't any weird capacitors on my motherboard. They all look fine and its a kinda heavy duty motherboard from ASUS, from the TUF line, whose components are supposedly military grade or some marketing crap like that. My power supply is a 650W so maybe it's not that either.
I've browsed a lot trying to find an answer to my problem, and on this website the closest issues to mine had answers like the display returning electricity through the cable to the computer thus making it act weird, which sounds a little preposterous, and something else about hardware. I might be slightly convinced that its the graphics card but not entirely sure. I have updated to the latest Nvidia drivers, if that's of any interest. I have also made sure everything is seated correctly in the motherboard and reset the CMOS with the cap thingy, twice. I also reset the BIOS to default settings, even though they already were that way. Just checked I didn't have any weird voltages or anything. I also ran MBAM and it came up clean.
Here are my specs
-AMD FX 8320 8 core processor, not overclocked and aircooled with a Cryonic H7. Stock clock is 3.7GHz
-ASUS 990FX AM3+ motherboard.
-ASUS GTX660 graphics card, not overclocked.
-Corsair Vengeance Pro RAM 16gb, two sticks of 8gb at 2400Mhz if I'm not mistaken. Not overclocked.
-Corsair TX650W power supply.
-1 Seagate 1TB drive and 1 WD Green 2TB drive.
-Windows 10
Computer is connected to a Samsung Smart TV via HDMI.
I hope you can help me find the solution to this problem. Unfortunately, if it comes to buying new hardware, it's not something I can do so easily. So I guess that if it's a hardware problem, sucks to be me.
UPDATE: I started running games in windowed mode and with a lower resolution. Problem seems to be gone. I'm starting to think it might be a Windows 10 issue, but also keeping my eye on the GPU.
UPDATE 2: Running games in windowed mode didn't fix the problem. I also deleted all Nvidia drivers and downloaded again. Problem still isn't fixed. I checked the event log for the last time it crashed and it shows a Kernel-Power ID 41 problem, which makes me think it might be power/PSU related. I connected the PC directly to the wall, as opposed to the power strip i would normally use. I will also format and reinstall Windows 10 to rule out any software problems. Will keep updating this thread. It's an incredibly frustrating problem and if someone else has it I want to help find a solution.
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