- May 11, 2014
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I'm tired of posting these threads because I have like 5 of them and I keep on running into the same problem. So the story is that I realised one day that my graphics card was running off 1 fan. This 1 fan is the one near the back of the case and the one near the HDD bays doesn't work (works for 1 second on boot up but turns off after). I have MSI TwinFrozr III 7950 Boost Edition.
One day, my computer kept on crashing SOMETIMES when I play games, not always. What happens is the screen all of the sudden goes black and then the monitor detects no signal. But when that happens is the whole entire PC stays on and I am able to hear and talk with my friends on steam voice chat I had opened before the crash. As I said before my card is running off 1 fan and the one that doesn't work seems to be the one supposed to be cooling the VRMs, people told me. My VRMs at stock video card clocks run at about 60-70 C underload. When the graphics card turbos it tends to run slightly hotter and cause most crashes.
This basically mean that it could be my graphics card being faulty, or is just overheating and crashing. Or it could be my motherboard, cpu, RAM, hard drive, power supply, monitor, DVI cable, etc.
So let's put it this way. I launch Dota 2, start playing for a few minutes and all of the sudden my screen goes black, the monitor says it has no signal, my computer is still on and all the fans (except the one on the gpu which didn't already work) are spinning just fine. The only way I can get out of this is a hard reboot, but it sometimes happens again after the boot.
My specs are:
ASRock Pro3 970 R2.0 - 2200Mhz NB Frequency (I don't know what that is but I'm leaving it here anyways)
FX-8320 at 3.7Ghz (default turbo clock but manually set along with manual voltage of 1.300v)
Deepcool Gammaxx 300 CPU Cooler
2x4GB (8GB total) G.Skill RAM 1600
MSI TwinFrozr III HD Radeon 7950 3GB at stock pre-overclocked frequencies
Western Digital Green HDD (from my old PC because I didn't want to spend money on an SSD)
Corsair CX 600w V2 80+ Bronze
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
I have seen threads similar to this that the solution seems to be to uninstall any programs related to the motherboard since they may cause some problems (only seen these problems with people on ASUS boards yet)
My PC is very dusty and dirty. I am trying to find a way to clean it and it seems to work best if I use compressed air cans, but I am still looking for a pack. My friend says he uses a leaf blower (lol) to clean his computer off the cat hair and dust, but I don't have one and can't afford.
Anyways I hope someone has an answer/solution. If cleaning my graphics card won't fix the fan problem then I will consider returning this card and get it replaced since it is currently under warranty.
One day, my computer kept on crashing SOMETIMES when I play games, not always. What happens is the screen all of the sudden goes black and then the monitor detects no signal. But when that happens is the whole entire PC stays on and I am able to hear and talk with my friends on steam voice chat I had opened before the crash. As I said before my card is running off 1 fan and the one that doesn't work seems to be the one supposed to be cooling the VRMs, people told me. My VRMs at stock video card clocks run at about 60-70 C underload. When the graphics card turbos it tends to run slightly hotter and cause most crashes.
This basically mean that it could be my graphics card being faulty, or is just overheating and crashing. Or it could be my motherboard, cpu, RAM, hard drive, power supply, monitor, DVI cable, etc.
So let's put it this way. I launch Dota 2, start playing for a few minutes and all of the sudden my screen goes black, the monitor says it has no signal, my computer is still on and all the fans (except the one on the gpu which didn't already work) are spinning just fine. The only way I can get out of this is a hard reboot, but it sometimes happens again after the boot.
My specs are:
ASRock Pro3 970 R2.0 - 2200Mhz NB Frequency (I don't know what that is but I'm leaving it here anyways)
FX-8320 at 3.7Ghz (default turbo clock but manually set along with manual voltage of 1.300v)
Deepcool Gammaxx 300 CPU Cooler
2x4GB (8GB total) G.Skill RAM 1600
MSI TwinFrozr III HD Radeon 7950 3GB at stock pre-overclocked frequencies
Western Digital Green HDD (from my old PC because I didn't want to spend money on an SSD)
Corsair CX 600w V2 80+ Bronze
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
I have seen threads similar to this that the solution seems to be to uninstall any programs related to the motherboard since they may cause some problems (only seen these problems with people on ASUS boards yet)
My PC is very dusty and dirty. I am trying to find a way to clean it and it seems to work best if I use compressed air cans, but I am still looking for a pack. My friend says he uses a leaf blower (lol) to clean his computer off the cat hair and dust, but I don't have one and can't afford.
Anyways I hope someone has an answer/solution. If cleaning my graphics card won't fix the fan problem then I will consider returning this card and get it replaced since it is currently under warranty.
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