Hi everyone, before I describe my issue, I want to thank everyone on this forum for taking the time to read this, as well as for teaching me many things about building and troubleshooting over the past couple months, you guys are awesome.
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So about 3 weeks ago, I finally put together my first build. The first 2 weeks were pretty smooth with no issues. About a week ago, my computer crashed while playing CS:GO (just went right to black screen, with a "no display" message on the monitor). The funny thing is, upon taking a look inside the case, only the CPU fan and the rear case fan (I have 2 case fans) were shut down along with the monitor display, while all other fans (front case fan, PSU fan, 3 GPU fans) kept running after the shutdown. I just figured it was an isolated incident and restarted with no problem.
Yesterday, the same thing happened twice, and another 2 times today, ALL DURING GAMING. So after some reading I decided to run Prime95 to stress test the CPU and RAM, and Furmark to stress test the GPU.
I ran Prime95 for an hour, and my CPU only reached a max temp. of 51 C, while my motherboard reached a max temp. of 66 C.
I ran Furmark for 20 minutes, and my GPU reached a max temp. of 73 C, while the motherboard reached 61 C. Although I never see these temperatures while gaming, these are still safe operating temperatures from what I have read. However, not during, but RIGHT AFTER I closed Furmark, my display, CPU fan, and rear case fan shut down like mentioned before. Also, I cannot restart my computer right after it shuts down now, I have to wait about 20 minutes after I turn off the PSU to get the CPU fan and rear case to spin and the display to appear on the monitor.
Here are my specifications...
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 microATX
CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6 core
GPU: PowerColor Radeon R9 270X 2GB TurboDuo
RAM: 2x 4GB A-DATA XPG DDR3-1600 sticks
PSU: Corsair CX500W
HDD: 1 TB Western Digital
SDD: 120 GB Samsung EVO
Case: Rosewill Line-M microATX mini
At first, due to a small case and lack of space to tie off cables, I thought I may have had a cooling issue, but seeing my temperatures of the CPU and GPU at 100% load have dismissed this thought. The other possibility, from what I have read, is a faulty GPU or PSU, or just insufficient wattage (I thought 500W would be enough for this build). If one of those is faulty, I'd much rather it be the PSU (cheaper, plus I bought it at MicroCenter).
Thank you all for reading, and I hope we can find out what is going on here. I also rely on this computer for data analysis through Mathematica and Igor, so it is important that I diagnose the problem here, so it does not interfere with my school work (but I'd also like to run my games without issues
) All input is much appreciated.
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EDIT: I hope this is an appropriate section for this post, I did not see a forum dedicated to troubleshooting, and I'm unsure exactly which component is acting up, so I posted under Systems.
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So about 3 weeks ago, I finally put together my first build. The first 2 weeks were pretty smooth with no issues. About a week ago, my computer crashed while playing CS:GO (just went right to black screen, with a "no display" message on the monitor). The funny thing is, upon taking a look inside the case, only the CPU fan and the rear case fan (I have 2 case fans) were shut down along with the monitor display, while all other fans (front case fan, PSU fan, 3 GPU fans) kept running after the shutdown. I just figured it was an isolated incident and restarted with no problem.
Yesterday, the same thing happened twice, and another 2 times today, ALL DURING GAMING. So after some reading I decided to run Prime95 to stress test the CPU and RAM, and Furmark to stress test the GPU.
I ran Prime95 for an hour, and my CPU only reached a max temp. of 51 C, while my motherboard reached a max temp. of 66 C.
I ran Furmark for 20 minutes, and my GPU reached a max temp. of 73 C, while the motherboard reached 61 C. Although I never see these temperatures while gaming, these are still safe operating temperatures from what I have read. However, not during, but RIGHT AFTER I closed Furmark, my display, CPU fan, and rear case fan shut down like mentioned before. Also, I cannot restart my computer right after it shuts down now, I have to wait about 20 minutes after I turn off the PSU to get the CPU fan and rear case to spin and the display to appear on the monitor.
Here are my specifications...
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 microATX
CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6 core
GPU: PowerColor Radeon R9 270X 2GB TurboDuo
RAM: 2x 4GB A-DATA XPG DDR3-1600 sticks
PSU: Corsair CX500W
HDD: 1 TB Western Digital
SDD: 120 GB Samsung EVO
Case: Rosewill Line-M microATX mini
At first, due to a small case and lack of space to tie off cables, I thought I may have had a cooling issue, but seeing my temperatures of the CPU and GPU at 100% load have dismissed this thought. The other possibility, from what I have read, is a faulty GPU or PSU, or just insufficient wattage (I thought 500W would be enough for this build). If one of those is faulty, I'd much rather it be the PSU (cheaper, plus I bought it at MicroCenter).
Thank you all for reading, and I hope we can find out what is going on here. I also rely on this computer for data analysis through Mathematica and Igor, so it is important that I diagnose the problem here, so it does not interfere with my school work (but I'd also like to run my games without issues
) All input is much appreciated.</Walloftext>
EDIT: I hope this is an appropriate section for this post, I did not see a forum dedicated to troubleshooting, and I'm unsure exactly which component is acting up, so I posted under Systems.
Thanks for the quick reply, I hope you can help me.
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