Hey everyone. First time posting, first major problem that Google couldn't fix!
So I built my first rig around a month ago. Worked like a charm apart from the occasional "waiting for cache" in Google Chrome, which would freeze my pc for a few mins. This I looked into and believed the cause to be a dodgy SATA cable. Lived with it for a while, believing that I can just change the cable when I think to. I mention this as it may be connected with the more serious issue.
Since a few days ago I've been getting 'crashes'. The fans keep spinning power still goes to my fan controller, and peripherals. However the screen I no longer receiving any images. So I'll hold down my power button to do a shutdown. On some occasions the button does its job. On others it does nothing and I must turn off power at the wall. Additionally, on some occasions when I power back up the pc it comes back on fine, other times (like right now) the system fires up but I get no image on the monitor.
It has happened a handful of times, sometimes during game play, some times during idling. It feels very random.
Things I've tried:
Swapping out SATA cables
Checked ram integrity (ok)
Checked HDD integrity (ok)
Disabled all power saving features.
Maxed power to all system fans (not an over heating issue)
And possibly a few more things I can't remember here.
Things I'm considering it could be:
Faulty GPU? :-(
SSD firmware issue
Psu configuration
Some silly quirk of software (hopefully)
Driver conflict.
Lastly, the only change of any potential consequence I did before this problem emerged was to install the new mantle beta drivers. I rolled back after the first issue, the problem remained.
As I can't get on to my pc right now all I can give you to work with is the information above and my hardware specs. I can post the other necessaries you'll most likely need to look at when I can get back on.
System specs:
AMD FX-8350 Black Edition
Hyperx DDR3 RAM 2x 4GB
XFX Radion R9 280x OC Double D
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0
Corsair CX750 Psu (non modular)
BitFenix Recon fan controller.
Corsair H55 Cpu watercooler.
2x Corsair Force 120gb SSD's
2x SATA II HDD's
Thankyou in advance for any and all help you can throw my way. It's really doing my head in, waited so long for a nice setup and then problems lol.
Thanks guys.
So I built my first rig around a month ago. Worked like a charm apart from the occasional "waiting for cache" in Google Chrome, which would freeze my pc for a few mins. This I looked into and believed the cause to be a dodgy SATA cable. Lived with it for a while, believing that I can just change the cable when I think to. I mention this as it may be connected with the more serious issue.
Since a few days ago I've been getting 'crashes'. The fans keep spinning power still goes to my fan controller, and peripherals. However the screen I no longer receiving any images. So I'll hold down my power button to do a shutdown. On some occasions the button does its job. On others it does nothing and I must turn off power at the wall. Additionally, on some occasions when I power back up the pc it comes back on fine, other times (like right now) the system fires up but I get no image on the monitor.
It has happened a handful of times, sometimes during game play, some times during idling. It feels very random.
Things I've tried:
Swapping out SATA cables
Checked ram integrity (ok)
Checked HDD integrity (ok)
Disabled all power saving features.
Maxed power to all system fans (not an over heating issue)
And possibly a few more things I can't remember here.
Things I'm considering it could be:
Faulty GPU? :-(
SSD firmware issue
Psu configuration
Some silly quirk of software (hopefully)
Driver conflict.
Lastly, the only change of any potential consequence I did before this problem emerged was to install the new mantle beta drivers. I rolled back after the first issue, the problem remained.
As I can't get on to my pc right now all I can give you to work with is the information above and my hardware specs. I can post the other necessaries you'll most likely need to look at when I can get back on.
System specs:
AMD FX-8350 Black Edition
Hyperx DDR3 RAM 2x 4GB
XFX Radion R9 280x OC Double D
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0
Corsair CX750 Psu (non modular)
BitFenix Recon fan controller.
Corsair H55 Cpu watercooler.
2x Corsair Force 120gb SSD's
2x SATA II HDD's
Thankyou in advance for any and all help you can throw my way. It's really doing my head in, waited so long for a nice setup and then problems lol.
Thanks guys.
. Good to know that from your experiences the beta drivers haven't caused hardware issues. Would hate to have to spend another £200 so soon.
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