- Oct 1, 2014
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Hi all, first post!
To start here are my specs:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/ragingninja77/saved/BCmNnQ
I recently built my first gaming PC. I have had it since the end of August, so a little over a month. For the past two weeks, the graphics card seems to be defective. Here is the problem:
Every time I turn on my PC after about 12+ hours (i.e. coming home from school), it starts up fine and boots right up. I open up Steam and find a game I want to play; so far so good. Now I try to maybe open up a YouTube video or watch a Twitch stream on my other monitor and BANG - main display goes into a frenzy of flashing lines. This will also happen if I set Skype to open up automatically when I start up. Skype will open up and then the main display goes into a bunch of flashing black and white and gray lines. But here's the weird part. I restart the computer and it is totally fine. I can watch videos and play games and do whatever without any display crashing. When the display crashes, I can still close out programs and even drag applications over to my other monitor, but I cannot see anything. I just got this computer so it shouldn't be dying! I have an SSD so at least it is a quick boot time after the restart, but it is still very annoying just knowing I have to restart it at some point. It seems that when I have too much going on that it crashes one display, which is weird.
I'd also like to note that my main display is connected through HDMI, and my second display is connected through VGA (with DVI adapter).
- All drivers are updated
- MSI Afterburner settings are set to default: http://gyazo.com/65ecd2443704d9caa0db134b44b852ab
This is exactly like this thread here: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1874470/monitor-crashes-watching-videos.html
The screen looks exactly the same in that picture as mine when it crashes and he describes the same symptoms. It was unfortunately not solved
I hope I can get an answer from this awesome community!
Thanks,
- ragingninja77
To start here are my specs:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/ragingninja77/saved/BCmNnQ
I recently built my first gaming PC. I have had it since the end of August, so a little over a month. For the past two weeks, the graphics card seems to be defective. Here is the problem:
Every time I turn on my PC after about 12+ hours (i.e. coming home from school), it starts up fine and boots right up. I open up Steam and find a game I want to play; so far so good. Now I try to maybe open up a YouTube video or watch a Twitch stream on my other monitor and BANG - main display goes into a frenzy of flashing lines. This will also happen if I set Skype to open up automatically when I start up. Skype will open up and then the main display goes into a bunch of flashing black and white and gray lines. But here's the weird part. I restart the computer and it is totally fine. I can watch videos and play games and do whatever without any display crashing. When the display crashes, I can still close out programs and even drag applications over to my other monitor, but I cannot see anything. I just got this computer so it shouldn't be dying! I have an SSD so at least it is a quick boot time after the restart, but it is still very annoying just knowing I have to restart it at some point. It seems that when I have too much going on that it crashes one display, which is weird.
I'd also like to note that my main display is connected through HDMI, and my second display is connected through VGA (with DVI adapter).
- All drivers are updated
- MSI Afterburner settings are set to default: http://gyazo.com/65ecd2443704d9caa0db134b44b852ab
This is exactly like this thread here: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1874470/monitor-crashes-watching-videos.html
The screen looks exactly the same in that picture as mine when it crashes and he describes the same symptoms. It was unfortunately not solved
I hope I can get an answer from this awesome community!
Thanks,
- ragingninja77
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