System Specs:
Motherboard: Asus Z77 Extreme 3
CPU: Intel i3770k (yeah it's old... but at the time) with closed-circuit water cooling pump.
RAM: 16GB (2x8GB) ddr3 2100 hz
GPU: AMD RX480
PSU: Corsair 650W ( I think...)
OS: Windows 10
Everything was running perfectly until I kept shaming 4 different uruks in shadows of war.... then I got bored of it.
Here's the story,
I exited Shadows of War with the usual alt+F4. Turned off my second screen, got off the computer to go read. I come back (2ish hrs later) display isn't picking up a signal.
Disconnected the hdmi cable from the card and switched it to onboard graphics, Changed primary display to onboard in bios, still tried to load displays from the GPU. ended up removing the CMOS battery now it loads. Updated the drivers, and nothing changed.
Formatted my SSD (windows drive) and during the reinstallation, it freezes, got stuck in an endless restart to continue installing loop. Turned it off worked on it again tomorrow.
Got a Windows 10 installation disk from a friend and reinstalled it from there, no issues. Installed all the windows updates, then started working on updating the video card driver.
Download the most recent AMD 20.8.2 (also tried the earlier version, and the same issues occurred).
I have 2 issues at this point:
Initially, I thought it was my GPU, but with the constant freezing at random points, I'm leaning more towards my CPU at this point. The only thing I haven't done is remove the CPU cooler, clean and reapply the CPU cement.
Is it my CPU?
Sorry for the long post
Motherboard: Asus Z77 Extreme 3
CPU: Intel i3770k (yeah it's old... but at the time) with closed-circuit water cooling pump.
RAM: 16GB (2x8GB) ddr3 2100 hz
GPU: AMD RX480
PSU: Corsair 650W ( I think...)
OS: Windows 10
Everything was running perfectly until I kept shaming 4 different uruks in shadows of war.... then I got bored of it.
Here's the story,
I exited Shadows of War with the usual alt+F4. Turned off my second screen, got off the computer to go read. I come back (2ish hrs later) display isn't picking up a signal.
Disconnected the hdmi cable from the card and switched it to onboard graphics, Changed primary display to onboard in bios, still tried to load displays from the GPU. ended up removing the CMOS battery now it loads. Updated the drivers, and nothing changed.
Formatted my SSD (windows drive) and during the reinstallation, it freezes, got stuck in an endless restart to continue installing loop. Turned it off worked on it again tomorrow.
Got a Windows 10 installation disk from a friend and reinstalled it from there, no issues. Installed all the windows updates, then started working on updating the video card driver.
Download the most recent AMD 20.8.2 (also tried the earlier version, and the same issues occurred).
I have 2 issues at this point:
- If I'm connected to the internet while installing the AMD drivers crash due to different errors, most recently/common is Error 202 cannot install drivers because Windows is currently installing an update, (WHICH IT WAS NOT),
- I freeze at random times, most often it's during driver installations not at the same point every time(9%,54%, 23%,... etc) Each time I use DDU and run a driver wipe and try again.
Initially, I thought it was my GPU, but with the constant freezing at random points, I'm leaning more towards my CPU at this point. The only thing I haven't done is remove the CPU cooler, clean and reapply the CPU cement.
Is it my CPU?
Sorry for the long post