Screen Freezes during gaming.

[Jeffrey Kim]

Hi guys, a couple months ago I built my first PC and it runs perfectly fine until I start playing a game or watch a youtube video. When I ever I play games (CS:GO, Garrys Mod, etc) the screen randomly freezes and the sound goes into a loop then it goes to black screen for about 5 secs then goes back to normal, it happens sporadically, sometimes it runs fine for 30 mins and sometimes 2 minutes. Thinking it might be a hardware problem, I RMA'd my APU and Motherboard, applied new thermal pastes, and now it happens for often, it even goes into a blue screen with distorted white lines.

Also when I'm browsing the internet, the screen would freeze for a couple seconds and a message will show up on the bottom that says, "Display driver AMD driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered" but that only happens once every boot.

I have tried installing different drivers multiple times for my APU

Specs:

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AMD A10-5800K APU

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GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XM-D3H MOBO

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G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9D-

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Western Digital WD Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM

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CORSAIR CX series CX430 430W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

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Windows 8.1 Pro

 

[dovah-chan]

Have you tried completely uninstalling your drivers and then reinstalling other ones? This guide details the process of completely uninstalling drivers. Also I feel like your PSU may be a bit too low for an APU or may just not be efficient enough. Just idle speculation from me though.

 

[Jeffrey Kim]

Have you tried completely uninstalling your drivers and then reinstalling other ones? This guide details the process of completely uninstalling drivers. Also I feel like your PSU may be a bit too low for an APU or may just not be efficient enough. Just idle speculation from me though.

Thanks for your answer dovah. So I re-installed the driver after following the guide that you posted but i still have the same problem.

 

[abhisekzok]

did u change anything at the bios setting like voltage or overclocked the cpu? try removing the battery once of the motherboard to reset the settings to default.

 

[MeteorsRaining]

I can feel your PSU is passing off. 430W tier 3 is not really an ideal PSU for ANY kind of PC. Try getting a 520W Tier 2 PSU like Antec HCG-520M, it may help.

 

[dovah-chan]

I can feel your PSU is passing off. 430W tier 3 is not really an ideal PSU for ANY kind of PC. Try getting a 520W Tier 2 PSU like Antec HCG-520M, it may help.

Feels like all those people who built those rigs last year with the cheap PSUs are starting to have trouble and have been coming here left and right.

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Ikr!
It really feels bad when people spend their savings on a good rig but suffer just because of bad PSU. I always recommend a high quality PSU, which'll eliminate this risk. Wish I was here 1 year ago 🙁

 

[abhisekzok]

crosair should be good theoretically and the psu should be enough for the apu and plus its a bronze psu and i hardly think its the psu's fault.

 

[dovah-chan]

crosair should be good theoretically and the psu should be enough for the apu and plus its a bronze psu and i hardly think its the psu's fault.

Well its not their fault that the CX series is garbage and judging by rating is not usually a valid reason when comparing PSUs. Rating only equals their efficiency of their total wattage. Meaning that they can only put out so much wattage at their maximum rated wattage reliably. I'm pretty sure that he isn't putting it under load but I am sure that there is a large possibility that the lower end components of the PSU are starting to fail. I wouldn't think it would be the APU's fault as you very rarely get a faulty one. Issues like these usually have no relation to any other components other than the PSU and the GPU.

 

[MeteorsRaining]

crosair should be good theoretically and the psu should be enough for the apu and plus its a bronze psu and i hardly think its the psu's fault.

You should go through this article: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html

 

[Jeffrey Kim]

crosair should be good theoretically and the psu should be enough for the apu and plus its a bronze psu and i hardly think its the psu's fault.

You should go through this article: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html

Ok, so I took your advice and just ordered the Antec HCG-520M, so I'll post an update after I try it out.

 

[MeteorsRaining]

That should solve the issue

 

[abhisekzok]

Well the cx types are of the lower end and can give okaish results if ur not an overclocker though not meant for prolonged use. Give us an update when ur done jeff.

 

[Jeffrey Kim]

That should solve the issue

It's still freezing. idk what to do at this point.

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Weird. Did you try out the stickies for freezing/ no boot in this forum?

 

[Jeffrey Kim]

I solved the problem guys, it was a bad ram stick. THANKS FOR THE HELP EVERYONE!

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Glad to know all is well