Hello,
I built a PC a few years ago and it was my main PC until about a year ago when I built myself a new PC. I let me brother use this old PC when he comes over on weekends and such. The issue is the PC works fine when I use it in my bedroom but as soon as my brother takes it down to the basement the computer will blue screen of death when ever he uses it in pretty much any game. It works fine at the desktop but anything that requires load on the GPU seems to cause it to BSOD. This is very odd since I always bring it back up to my room as soon as he leaves and it works fine for me in games and never BSOD. I do not know what to do I just replaced the regular hard drive with a 128gb SSD and I replaced the ram a few months ago. The only thing I can think of its the PSU or graphics cards.. If anyone has any suggestion please let me know. I have also tested my PC and my brother brings his PC now which works fine in our basement. If anyone can help or can recommend which part I replace next please let me know, I really do not want to waste money on a PSU and find out its the mobo or video cards. Its driving me nuts since the PC works fine in my room. I was thinking it was a voltage issue in my basement but cannot explain why my newer PC and my brothers PC work fine down there.
Also the right when the PC crashes the video cards seem to set there fan speeds to 100% and get really loud then the PC blue screens with an error code I cannot recall at the moment but have googled in the past to no avail.
The PC's specs are as follows:
Processor: I7 930 2.8ghz
ram: 12gb Gskill DDR3 1600mhz tripple channel (3 sticks each 4gb)
Mobo: Gigabyte X58a-ud3r
Video cards: Crossfire ATI 5850's both XFX brand
HD: 128gb Crucial m4 SSD and a few 500gb seagate drives for storage.
PSU: Xion 800w PSU "off brand PSU I got at microcenter"
If any other specs are needed please let me know.
I built a PC a few years ago and it was my main PC until about a year ago when I built myself a new PC. I let me brother use this old PC when he comes over on weekends and such. The issue is the PC works fine when I use it in my bedroom but as soon as my brother takes it down to the basement the computer will blue screen of death when ever he uses it in pretty much any game. It works fine at the desktop but anything that requires load on the GPU seems to cause it to BSOD. This is very odd since I always bring it back up to my room as soon as he leaves and it works fine for me in games and never BSOD. I do not know what to do I just replaced the regular hard drive with a 128gb SSD and I replaced the ram a few months ago. The only thing I can think of its the PSU or graphics cards.. If anyone has any suggestion please let me know. I have also tested my PC and my brother brings his PC now which works fine in our basement. If anyone can help or can recommend which part I replace next please let me know, I really do not want to waste money on a PSU and find out its the mobo or video cards. Its driving me nuts since the PC works fine in my room. I was thinking it was a voltage issue in my basement but cannot explain why my newer PC and my brothers PC work fine down there.
Also the right when the PC crashes the video cards seem to set there fan speeds to 100% and get really loud then the PC blue screens with an error code I cannot recall at the moment but have googled in the past to no avail.
The PC's specs are as follows:
Processor: I7 930 2.8ghz
ram: 12gb Gskill DDR3 1600mhz tripple channel (3 sticks each 4gb)
Mobo: Gigabyte X58a-ud3r
Video cards: Crossfire ATI 5850's both XFX brand
HD: 128gb Crucial m4 SSD and a few 500gb seagate drives for storage.
PSU: Xion 800w PSU "off brand PSU I got at microcenter"
If any other specs are needed please let me know.
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