A few days ago when using my brother's computer and playing Skyrim, (1) the display froze (2) displayed pixelated or blocky random colors (mostly pinks/purples) (3) the audio started looping and finally (4) the display disconnected from the graphics card. This is a nvidia geforce gtx 465.
Subsequent attempts to reboot the computer did not work with this graphics card so we put in an older one, a nvidia geforce gts 250. We also reinstalled the drivers. This worked fine until it randomly did the same thing as before except instead of (4), it just remained frozen and with all the weird colors. This did not happen when playing a graphics intensive game (or when running furmark). It happened with nothing running except maybe Chrome.
I downloaded CPUID HWMonitor to check the voltages and temps and this is what I got with skyrim running:
I have read that the 3.3/5V and 12V need to be within 5% and 10% respectively and I can see that the 3.3V (3.118V) is slightly below the threshold (3.13V).
My question is if that is the main problem (or if there is anything else that looks wrong)? Could that explain the problems or could the video card(s) also just be done?
Computer (as far as I know):
Motherboard: ASUS M5 A99x EVO r2.0
First GPU: EVGA nvidia geforce gtx 465
Second GPU: MSI nvidia geforce gts 250
PSU: Rosewell capstone-750 (750W)
Processor: AMD FX-6100 6 core 3.30GHz
RAM: (don't know the type but it is ddr3) 16 GB
Windows 8.1
Subsequent attempts to reboot the computer did not work with this graphics card so we put in an older one, a nvidia geforce gts 250. We also reinstalled the drivers. This worked fine until it randomly did the same thing as before except instead of (4), it just remained frozen and with all the weird colors. This did not happen when playing a graphics intensive game (or when running furmark). It happened with nothing running except maybe Chrome.
I downloaded CPUID HWMonitor to check the voltages and temps and this is what I got with skyrim running:
I have read that the 3.3/5V and 12V need to be within 5% and 10% respectively and I can see that the 3.3V (3.118V) is slightly below the threshold (3.13V).
My question is if that is the main problem (or if there is anything else that looks wrong)? Could that explain the problems or could the video card(s) also just be done?
Computer (as far as I know):
Motherboard: ASUS M5 A99x EVO r2.0
First GPU: EVGA nvidia geforce gtx 465
Second GPU: MSI nvidia geforce gts 250
PSU: Rosewell capstone-750 (750W)
Processor: AMD FX-6100 6 core 3.30GHz
RAM: (don't know the type but it is ddr3) 16 GB
Windows 8.1