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June 16, 2014 10:02:33 AM

I am now completely stumped after 3 days of various tests, I am in desperate need of help!
I am sorry about the wall of text but I'll try to be as specific as possible so as to get to the problem as quickly as possible.

The issue:
My computer crashes/freezes to either black or redish screen, forcing me to restart the system.
Most of the time this only occours after I have run some intensive program or game, namely I have experienced it so far in: Wildstar, metro last light amd Furmark.
It mainly occours after I shut them down and attempt to open something new, like Chrome.

It has crashed occasionally while in use, but it is much less common and have only occured after extended usage or extreme settings like Metro Last Light on max settings, in which it sometimes crashes once I gain control of the character and other times it won't crash at all.

The odd thing is that it runs everything with no issues at all, there is no performance drops before the crash or there won't even be a crash and it only occours after I have shut down the program.

What I have tried so far:
First I tried switching up the memory sticks, using only one or the other and using different ports, all experienced the crashes.

Secondly I tried running GPU-Z and CPUID monitors while using Furmark and prime95, not at the same time of course, to see if I could see any spikes in temperature or gpu usage before the crash, but found neither.
However my system seems to be generally hot, with 82*C max GPU temperature after 20 minutes of Furmark testing, 94*C max VRM temp during the Furmark test, and CPU temps at 72*C max after 2 hours of prime95.

Thirdly I tried reinstalling my windows and all drivers 2 times, with no discernable effect at all.

Current thoughts:
If it was the heat that was the issue, shouldn't I experience the crash once the peak heat was achieved? not after having shut down the program and opening another at which time the heat has dissipated according to GPU-Z?

If it was power supply, shouldn't the crash occour when my GPU uses the highest voltage, which it has with no issue, the issue only arrives later.


I have recently had to upgrade my graphics card, when my earlier one died on me.
I went from a gtx 670 2gb to a gtx 770 2gb.
I had no issues of this sort before the change and as such I have no idea if the reason the card died is related to this issue, however it seems somewhat likely.

Current specs
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770k @3,5ghz
RAM: 2x DDR3-1600 Kingston 4gb HyperX Single mod
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 770 2gb

HDD: 1000GB Seagate/Samsung 7200rpm
SSD: OCZ vertex 3 MAX IOPS 120gb SATA3

PSU: RaidMax RX-600AF 80+Bronze

Short of changing my components at random, what are my options at this point? I would prefer to locate the problem with certainty before investing in more cooling / new power / new ram etc.

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June 16, 2014 10:27:09 AM

Do you have the latest drivers installed? Maybe that helps. Did you run memtest86 to test the RAM? That are some nice parts but why didn't you choose a better power supply? That 600W Raidmax is probably barely runs it.
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June 16, 2014 10:37:15 AM

RastislavB said:
Do you have the latest drivers installed? Maybe that helps. Did you run memtest86 to test the RAM? That are some nice parts but why didn't you choose a better power supply? That 600W Raidmax is probably barely runs it.


I manually downloaded the newest gtx 770 drivers and used a program called driver booster for the rest, checking the drivers manually it appears to have updated everything, at least according to windows.
No I havn't tried that yet, I'll do that and see what happens.
Well I bought the whole system pre-built 1½ years ago, with the gtx 670 back then, the PSU was simply the one that followed with and since I never had an issue before I didn't consider upgrading it.

Is it likely that the power supply is the root cause of my issues here?

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June 16, 2014 1:58:10 PM

zethika said:
RastislavB said:
Do you have the latest drivers installed? Maybe that helps. Did you run memtest86 to test the RAM? That are some nice parts but why didn't you choose a better power supply? That 600W Raidmax is probably barely runs it.


I manually downloaded the newest gtx 770 drivers and used a program called driver booster for the rest, checking the drivers manually it appears to have updated everything, at least according to windows.
No I havn't tried that yet, I'll do that and see what happens.
Well I bought the whole system pre-built 1½ years ago, with the gtx 670 back then, the PSU was simply the one that followed with and since I never had an issue before I didn't consider upgrading it.

Is it likely that the power supply is the root cause of my issues here?



I am having doubts between the power supply and the RAM, if you test out the RAM then we'll know but your PSU has 2x22 Amp 12V rails and the GTX 770 requires a minimum 600W power supply with 42 Amps on the 12V rail. Usually you add about 100-200 Watts because the capacitors inside the PSU degrade as time goes and it's always better to have headroom. With a system like yours the power supply is not something to spend little money on. You should get a better power supply even if it isn't the problem as your current one is one the limit. But first we need to solve the crashing issue with it. Please post a picture of the memtest86 results, also to be sure do atleast 2 passes, or 3 to be sure.

EDIT : Forgot to mention one more thing about the power supply, your previous GTX 670 has a requirement of a minimum 500W PSU and it's max draw is about 170W, on the other hand your GTX 770 requires a minimum 600W PSU and draws a maximum of 230W.
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June 17, 2014 3:25:32 AM

RastislavB said:

I am having doubts between the power supply and the RAM, if you test out the RAM then we'll know but your PSU has 2x22 Amp 12V rails and the GTX 770 requires a minimum 600W power supply with 42 Amps on the 12V rail. Usually you add about 100-200 Watts because the capacitors inside the PSU degrade as time goes and it's always better to have headroom. With a system like yours the power supply is not something to spend little money on. You should get a better power supply even if it isn't the problem as your current one is one the limit. But first we need to solve the crashing issue with it. Please post a picture of the memtest86 results, also to be sure do atleast 2 passes, or 3 to be sure.

EDIT : Forgot to mention one more thing about the power supply, your previous GTX 670 has a requirement of a minimum 500W PSU and it's max draw is about 170W, on the other hand your GTX 770 requires a minimum 600W PSU and draws a maximum of 230W.


Alright I did the memtest, image below, it appears that there is no issues with my ram, which of course is nice but I take it that this means it's the power supply that is simply inadequate?
However I simply don't understand why the crashes occour mostly after the card has cooled down again and aren't using as much power, in my mind I should experience the crashes or instability at peak power consumption?

With what you are saying it certainly does seem like it should only be limbing along, considering the PSU wont be 100% efficient I guess.

If so, what kind of power supply should I aim for? something like this?

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June 17, 2014 4:15:32 AM

You don't need 1000 Watts unless you plan on SLI in the future but definitely not with that board since it won't work on it. I would ask you to do a few more thing before buying a new power supply. First, if you have a different graphics card try and use it instead of the GTX 770 and try to replicate the previous scenario by playing a game and then after closing it opening something like a web browser. If you don't have a different graphics card or if it does the same thing as before can you try using the onboard video and remove the graphics card so there is nothing in the PCI Express slots? It would also be useful if you have a friend who has a power supply that's enough to run the system with the GTX 770 to test that out. Also when you play a game can you touch the chipset heatsink (it's located between the two PCIe 16x slots)? Be careful not to touch it for too long because if it's too hot you can burn your fingers.
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June 17, 2014 6:58:22 AM

RastislavB said:
You don't need 1000 Watts unless you plan on SLI in the future but definitely not with that board since it won't work on it. I would ask you to do a few more thing before buying a new power supply. First, if you have a different graphics card try and use it instead of the GTX 770 and try to replicate the previous scenario by playing a game and then after closing it opening something like a web browser. If you don't have a different graphics card or if it does the same thing as before can you try using the onboard video and remove the graphics card so there is nothing in the PCI Express slots? It would also be useful if you have a friend who has a power supply that's enough to run the system with the GTX 770 to test that out. Also when you play a game can you touch the chipset heatsink (it's located between the two PCIe 16x slots)? Be careful not to touch it for too long because if it's too hot you can burn your fingers.


Is it the SLI or the power supply that my mb isn't compatible with?

Sadly neither do I have a secondary card nor do my friend have either cards or psu, since they are mostly running laptops.
However, I tried touching the heat sink and while it was not at the point where it immidiately burned my fingers it was most certainly quite hot.
Also, running it on the onboard VGA card, how would I go about testing it on this? I can't use furmark on it, I get an error that furmark requires opengl 2.0 compliant graphics controllers, and while I am currently downloading Wildstar, after having reinstalled windows, I can only guess that it's the same with that? So is there some way to test it out, some program or somesuch?

I mean it runs the desktop and applications fine but that's really to be expected I take it?

Also, thank you so much for helping me along here! It's wonderfull that you take the time for it!
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June 17, 2014 8:21:35 AM

Well testing out an iGPU is like testing a normal one. Try to play a game. Intel HD 4000 is one of the better iGPUs and it can play some games. Just wondering but does it crash only when you open Chrome? What else did you try running instead of Chrome?

EDIT : Your motherboard isn't capable of SLI but let's not worry about that now.
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June 17, 2014 8:32:37 AM

RastislavB said:
Well testing out an iGPU is like testing a normal one. Try to play a game. Intel HD 4000 is one of the better iGPUs and it can play some games. Just wondering but does it crash only when you open Chrome? What else did you try running instead of Chrome?

EDIT : Your motherboard isn't capable of SLI but let's not worry about that now.


alright I'll try downloading different games and test it out then.

Sometimes it would seem as if it was timed, so even if I did nothing after closing, it would crash, this is how it was almost every time with furmark. But apart from that I only really recall experiencing it with chrome and steam which of course also was the only programs I tried opening afterwards.
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June 17, 2014 9:07:05 AM

Well after this we'll see what to do. I have searched online and seems that computers with that board will lock up or freeze sometimes. Mostly Hackintoshes though, for them a different network driver fixed it so we'll try that after you try running a game with the on-board graphics.
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June 17, 2014 10:43:03 AM

RastislavB said:
Well after this we'll see what to do. I have searched online and seems that computers with that board will lock up or freeze sometimes. Mostly Hackintoshes though, for them a different network driver fixed it so we'll try that after you try running a game with the on-board graphics.


Well I tested it out on various games, and have yet to experience a crash.
However I could not even get it to start most games, only very old or very simple games, namely super hexagon, half-life, FTL and plants vs. zombies. of those only super hexagon and plants vs zombies would actually run at even close to usable framerate, however even after 2 hours of various games like this, there has been no crash.
I don't know if it's because the games are very simple or what, but I think it's safe to say that what games it will launch, it won't crash in.
I plan to let it sit in half-life with the bad framerate for a couple of hours later on, since the issue mostly came after extended use.

A different network driver you say?
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June 17, 2014 11:51:52 AM

If it solved their problem then it also might solve yours. Now I don't know your network chipset but I know it's Atheros. Their website has the drivers divided into families but I don't know your chipset as Gigabyte only states it's an Atheros GbE LAN. I am a bit boring with this but can you say which version of the network driver do you have installed? If you don't know how to check that please post in this thread and I'll explain.

EDIT : The low framerates are probably the result of a Windows driver because noone uses HD 4000 if they already have a discrete GPU. I'm thinking that because I myself use a Celeron G1620 with it's integrated graphics which are almost the same as a HD 2500 and it runs Half Life great.
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June 17, 2014 12:08:25 PM

RastislavB said:
If it solved their problem then it also might solve yours. Now I don't know your network chipset but I know it's Atheros. Their website has the drivers divided into families but I don't know your chipset as Gigabyte only states it's an Atheros GbE LAN. I am a bit boring with this but can you say which version of the network driver do you have installed? If you don't know how to check that please post in this thread and I'll explain.

EDIT : The low framerates are probably the result of a Windows driver because noone uses HD 4000 if they already have a discrete GPU. I'm thinking that because I myself use a Celeron G1620 with it's integrated graphics which are almost the same as a HD 2500 and it runs Half Life great.


My network card as windows puts it is;
Qualcomm atheros ar8151 pci-e gigabit ethernet controller (NDIS 6.20)
and the driver is 2.10.0.16 which, when searching for the device, turns out is not the newest driver either, but it was a specific driver I needed?

I tried having Half life running for a bit, turned out that it did not like having the renderer be opengl and wanted it as software, which vastly improved the fps, however still no sign of a crash anywhere.
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June 17, 2014 12:49:40 PM

Yeah I forgot about the renderer. I also have to play CS 1.6 with the software renderer. But can you install the newest driver for it http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=... ? Just select Show All and then you'll find it under LAN, it's version 2.1.0.21. Sorry if this is a PITA because I'm asking you to do all this. After this you should test it out with your GTX 770 again replicating the previous scenario.
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June 17, 2014 1:33:45 PM

RastislavB said:
Yeah I forgot about the renderer. I also have to play CS 1.6 with the software renderer. But can you install the newest driver for it http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=... ? Just select Show All and then you'll find it under LAN, it's version 2.1.0.21. Sorry if this is a PITA because I'm asking you to do all this. After this you should test it out with your GTX 770 again replicating the previous scenario.


Oh nono this is not a pain at all, well besides that my stuff doesn't work, but this is why I'm here! I'm very glad you take the time to guide me through this.

Alright I installed the driver and ran furmark again, sadly it crashed once I opened chrome again.
I would try it once more and see what happens if I opened another program if it wasn't for another development, namely that this crash wasn't to black og redish screens but rather blinking, shifting between solid red green and blue screens,
I take it that my graphics card is not very much liking my continued experimentation on it, since this seemed much more dramatic than what I have experienced earlier and I have the bad feeling that this is a danger sign for frying the card?
It seems that the performance of the card hasn't suffered yet though, which is great.

However, another interesting point I noticed I havn't mentioned before is that after the crash, when I try to boot up the system I get through DOS no problem, but once I am to log on to windows it is just a black screen, only after a repair can I get the login screen at all. Of course the system have just violently shut down before that but still, might be important
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June 17, 2014 1:55:27 PM

The colors indicate a GPU problem. Here's an explanation : your GPU has no problem doing 3D gaming but when you open Chrome or something it doesn't use enough power to drive it's cores to render the 2D image of the browser and such. So it's half working. But this also helps solve another problem : you said your GTX 670 died, it is a very strange coincidence that both your graphics cards are dying in the same system that has every quality part, exept the power supply. There might be another thing that's causing the issue : bad capacitors on the motherboard. But I doubt that because Gigabyte board are reliable. You also said it sometimes crashes when you gain control of a character in Metro. Now that is 3D rendering and if that happens then your GPU is probably faulty. The place where you bought it should replace it if they find out that it's faulty and that's not your fault don't worry. If you can test the graphics card somewhere do it, otherwise you can take the GPU where you bought it (assuming it's a store like MicroCenter or something like that) and explain it to them and they should test it out. If it's good then your PSU is bad if not it's the GPU and they'll replace it. After this is done you can decide whether to buy a new PSU or not. I have told you to try everything I could think of that's causing it and there was no help. If you do any of these thing please post the results here.

EDIT : Don't worry about that Windows log in repair, it did crash so it's expected it will do something weird.
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June 17, 2014 2:11:10 PM

alright then, that makes sense to me and since none of my friends have a better psu system where I could test the card, I'll take it up to the store.

Thank you so much its been a massive help! I'll be sure to post their results here
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June 17, 2014 2:42:07 PM

No problem, I'll check this every day so I won't miss your post.
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July 31, 2014 1:50:52 PM

zethika said:
alright then, that makes sense to me and since none of my friends have a better psu system where I could test the card, I'll take it up to the store.

Thank you so much its been a massive help! I'll be sure to post their results here


Hi Zethika, Did you ever figure your problem out. I have almost the same problem as you. I will put my system specs. I am thinking this is the power supply. my freeze is a little more random it freezes what ever is on screen.

Spudz86 Specs
MB: Gigyabyte 990fxa-ud3
CPU: AMD FX-8320
RAM: Kingston 8gb (2x4gb) hyperX black DDR3-1600
GPU: Gigyabyte gtx 760 4gb
HDD: 1tb WD blue
PSU: Radimax RX-600af
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August 1, 2014 12:50:23 AM

spudz86 said:
zethika said:
alright then, that makes sense to me and since none of my friends have a better psu system where I could test the card, I'll take it up to the store.

Thank you so much its been a massive help! I'll be sure to post their results here


Hi Zethika, Did you ever figure your problem out. I have almost the same problem as you. I will put my system specs. I am thinking this is the power supply. my freeze is a little more random it freezes what ever is on screen.

Spudz86 Specs
MB: Gigyabyte 990fxa-ud3
CPU: AMD FX-8320
RAM: Kingston 8gb (2x4gb) hyperX black DDR3-1600
GPU: Gigyabyte gtx 760 4gb
HDD: 1tb WD blue
PSU: Radimax RX-600af


Hey Spudz, as I have been away from home I can't say that I've yet gotten it fixed, however I can say that in my case it seems extremely likely that it is the graphics card, since I did get my hands on a more adequate power supply with no difference in regards to the crashes.
It did give me a noticable performance boost however, so you might want to upgrade yours either way, since it looks like your setup is similiar to mine.

You say that your freezes are more random? How so?
Also you say that it freezes what ever is on the screen? So you keep on having an image displayed after the freeze? I don't know if it is a significant difference, but mine always went either black or a single solid colour, so that your screen keeps an image might indicate that there is a difference between the two flaws, however I would still wager that your issue is with the card.

Have you tried the different tests that rastislavb suggested me? memtest86, changing memory slots, stresstesting the graphics card, updating the motherboard's drivers to the newest version and all that?
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August 1, 2014 1:52:22 AM

Guys, before switching the PSU, please make sure that the old drivers (if any) were CORRECTLY removed from your PC, as this might cause issues.

Use the link below, and afterwards install the latest version of the driver (not Beta) for the GPU.
If you still have issues, direct your attention back to the PSU.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1150443/how-to-remove-your-n...
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August 1, 2014 11:51:30 AM

The first thing I did was updated drivers. Then memtest. Then used Seatools and another hdd test can't remember witch one. My temps are all in range. I am sang that cheap psu may have trashed your gpu. I am hoping it didn't mess anything on my rig up. I have a thread posted and a person thay got back to me and put a very good link showing what psu are good or bad and raidmax was trash.
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August 24, 2014 12:49:22 PM

zethika said:
I am now completely stumped after 3 days of various tests, I am in desperate need of help!
I am sorry about the wall of text but I'll try to be as specific as possible so as to get to the problem as quickly as possible.

The issue:
My computer crashes/freezes to either black or redish screen, forcing me to restart the system.
Most of the time this only occours after I have run some intensive program or game, namely I have experienced it so far in: Wildstar, metro last light amd Furmark.
It mainly occours after I shut them down and attempt to open something new, like Chrome.

It has crashed occasionally while in use, but it is much less common and have only occured after extended usage or extreme settings like Metro Last Light on max settings, in which it sometimes crashes once I gain control of the character and other times it won't crash at all.

The odd thing is that it runs everything with no issues at all, there is no performance drops before the crash or there won't even be a crash and it only occours after I have shut down the program.

What I have tried so far:
First I tried switching up the memory sticks, using only one or the other and using different ports, all experienced the crashes.

Secondly I tried running GPU-Z and CPUID monitors while using Furmark and prime95, not at the same time of course, to see if I could see any spikes in temperature or gpu usage before the crash, but found neither.
However my system seems to be generally hot, with 82*C max GPU temperature after 20 minutes of Furmark testing, 94*C max VRM temp during the Furmark test, and CPU temps at 72*C max after 2 hours of prime95.

Thirdly I tried reinstalling my windows and all drivers 2 times, with no discernable effect at all.

Current thoughts:
If it was the heat that was the issue, shouldn't I experience the crash once the peak heat was achieved? not after having shut down the program and opening another at which time the heat has dissipated according to GPU-Z?

If it was power supply, shouldn't the crash occour when my GPU uses the highest voltage, which it has with no issue, the issue only arrives later.


I have recently had to upgrade my graphics card, when my earlier one died on me.
I went from a gtx 670 2gb to a gtx 770 2gb.
I had no issues of this sort before the change and as such I have no idea if the reason the card died is related to this issue, however it seems somewhat likely.

Current specs
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770k @3,5ghz
RAM: 2x DDR3-1600 Kingston 4gb HyperX Single mod
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 770 2gb

HDD: 1000GB Seagate/Samsung 7200rpm
SSD: OCZ vertex 3 MAX IOPS 120gb SATA3

PSU: RaidMax RX-600AF 80+Bronze

Short of changing my components at random, what are my options at this point? I would prefer to locate the problem with certainty before investing in more cooling / new power / new ram etc.


Hi. I have a same problem.
When I buyed my PC I had 600W PSU but I dont know which brand.
Then one day the PSU is died and I buyed Raidmax RX-600AF.
And from that day I get the same message as You.
First I thought it was problem with the driver, but now I think it's with the PSU.
Sorry for my bad english.
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August 25, 2014 4:25:53 AM

BDominik said:
zethika said:
I am now completely stumped after 3 days of various tests, I am in desperate need of help!
I am sorry about the wall of text but I'll try to be as specific as possible so as to get to the problem as quickly as possible.

The issue:
My computer crashes/freezes to either black or redish screen, forcing me to restart the system.
Most of the time this only occours after I have run some intensive program or game, namely I have experienced it so far in: Wildstar, metro last light amd Furmark.
It mainly occours after I shut them down and attempt to open something new, like Chrome.

It has crashed occasionally while in use, but it is much less common and have only occured after extended usage or extreme settings like Metro Last Light on max settings, in which it sometimes crashes once I gain control of the character and other times it won't crash at all.

The odd thing is that it runs everything with no issues at all, there is no performance drops before the crash or there won't even be a crash and it only occours after I have shut down the program.

What I have tried so far:
First I tried switching up the memory sticks, using only one or the other and using different ports, all experienced the crashes.

Secondly I tried running GPU-Z and CPUID monitors while using Furmark and prime95, not at the same time of course, to see if I could see any spikes in temperature or gpu usage before the crash, but found neither.
However my system seems to be generally hot, with 82*C max GPU temperature after 20 minutes of Furmark testing, 94*C max VRM temp during the Furmark test, and CPU temps at 72*C max after 2 hours of prime95.

Thirdly I tried reinstalling my windows and all drivers 2 times, with no discernable effect at all.

Current thoughts:
If it was the heat that was the issue, shouldn't I experience the crash once the peak heat was achieved? not after having shut down the program and opening another at which time the heat has dissipated according to GPU-Z?

If it was power supply, shouldn't the crash occour when my GPU uses the highest voltage, which it has with no issue, the issue only arrives later.


I have recently had to upgrade my graphics card, when my earlier one died on me.
I went from a gtx 670 2gb to a gtx 770 2gb.
I had no issues of this sort before the change and as such I have no idea if the reason the card died is related to this issue, however it seems somewhat likely.

Current specs
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770k @3,5ghz
RAM: 2x DDR3-1600 Kingston 4gb HyperX Single mod
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 770 2gb

HDD: 1000GB Seagate/Samsung 7200rpm
SSD: OCZ vertex 3 MAX IOPS 120gb SATA3

PSU: RaidMax RX-600AF 80+Bronze

Short of changing my components at random, what are my options at this point? I would prefer to locate the problem with certainty before investing in more cooling / new power / new ram etc.


Hi. I have a same problem.
When I buyed my PC I had 600W PSU but I dont know which brand.
Then one day the PSU is died and I buyed Raidmax RX-600AF.
And from that day I get the same message as You.
First I thought it was problem with the driver, but now I think it's with the PSU.
Sorry for my bad english.


Hey, considering that your issue arrived with the PSU and not the graphics card, I can't say for certain that you are experincing the same issue as me.
It turned out that in my case it was indeed a faulty graphics card that made the error, which doesn't sound like your issue.
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August 25, 2014 6:18:20 AM

zethika said:
BDominik said:
zethika said:
I am now completely stumped after 3 days of various tests, I am in desperate need of help!
I am sorry about the wall of text but I'll try to be as specific as possible so as to get to the problem as quickly as possible.

The issue:
My computer crashes/freezes to either black or redish screen, forcing me to restart the system.
Most of the time this only occours after I have run some intensive program or game, namely I have experienced it so far in: Wildstar, metro last light amd Furmark.
It mainly occours after I shut them down and attempt to open something new, like Chrome.

It has crashed occasionally while in use, but it is much less common and have only occured after extended usage or extreme settings like Metro Last Light on max settings, in which it sometimes crashes once I gain control of the character and other times it won't crash at all.

The odd thing is that it runs everything with no issues at all, there is no performance drops before the crash or there won't even be a crash and it only occours after I have shut down the program.

What I have tried so far:
First I tried switching up the memory sticks, using only one or the other and using different ports, all experienced the crashes.

Secondly I tried running GPU-Z and CPUID monitors while using Furmark and prime95, not at the same time of course, to see if I could see any spikes in temperature or gpu usage before the crash, but found neither.
However my system seems to be generally hot, with 82*C max GPU temperature after 20 minutes of Furmark testing, 94*C max VRM temp during the Furmark test, and CPU temps at 72*C max after 2 hours of prime95.

Thirdly I tried reinstalling my windows and all drivers 2 times, with no discernable effect at all.

Current thoughts:
If it was the heat that was the issue, shouldn't I experience the crash once the peak heat was achieved? not after having shut down the program and opening another at which time the heat has dissipated according to GPU-Z?

If it was power supply, shouldn't the crash occour when my GPU uses the highest voltage, which it has with no issue, the issue only arrives later.


I have recently had to upgrade my graphics card, when my earlier one died on me.
I went from a gtx 670 2gb to a gtx 770 2gb.
I had no issues of this sort before the change and as such I have no idea if the reason the card died is related to this issue, however it seems somewhat likely.

Current specs
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770k @3,5ghz
RAM: 2x DDR3-1600 Kingston 4gb HyperX Single mod
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 770 2gb

HDD: 1000GB Seagate/Samsung 7200rpm
SSD: OCZ vertex 3 MAX IOPS 120gb SATA3

PSU: RaidMax RX-600AF 80+Bronze

Short of changing my components at random, what are my options at this point? I would prefer to locate the problem with certainty before investing in more cooling / new power / new ram etc.


Hi. I have a same problem.
When I buyed my PC I had 600W PSU but I dont know which brand.
Then one day the PSU is died and I buyed Raidmax RX-600AF.
And from that day I get the same message as You.
First I thought it was problem with the driver, but now I think it's with the PSU.
Sorry for my bad english.


Hey, considering that your issue arrived with the PSU and not the graphics card, I can't say for certain that you are experincing the same issue as me.
It turned out that in my case it was indeed a faulty graphics card that made the error, which doesn't sound like your issue.


Hm. Its interesting.
Sorry for your graphic card.
I think that in my case the PSU is the problem.
Yesterday I tested my graphic card with FurMark, and everything seems good.
The GPU-s max temperature 81 C.
During the test doesnt crashed the graphic card, but when I turned off the test, the display 6 times turned of and on.
And displayed the same error text.
Interesting that yesterday after the test all my games is crashed. (Wolfenstein The new order, Thied, AC4 Black Flag, residetn evil 6)
But today I played Wolfenstein for 3hours in High graphic settings without any problem.


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