- Oct 13, 2014
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Hello,
I'm having severe issues with my computer at the moment. As a full system it's about 5 years old, but I've consistently upgraded the parts inside, the oldest part is probably 3 years old max.
In games, such as Dota 2 (which isn't a high demanding game by any means) I get black flashes, research into this suggests a power supply issue, which would probably be the oldest part in the machine, but it is a good one. According to the tier listing, I have a Tier 2 A class PSU, which should be very stable.
This is my 2nd windows 8.1 installation. I assumed the issues I had with the last one were because of the Windows 7 upgrade I performed rather than a clean install due to my laziness, but a few from the old and new issues have appeared on this recent clean install, suggesting a hardware issue somewhere. I get occasional BSODs, which point to Microsoft drivers (I've looked myself at WinDbg). Memory leaks happen every so-often too, quickly filling the 8GBs I have, but a RAM test yielded no errors. As for the graphics card, I've tried the beta and stable streams, but the flashes still occur.
System spec:
Any suggestions?
I'm having severe issues with my computer at the moment. As a full system it's about 5 years old, but I've consistently upgraded the parts inside, the oldest part is probably 3 years old max.
In games, such as Dota 2 (which isn't a high demanding game by any means) I get black flashes, research into this suggests a power supply issue, which would probably be the oldest part in the machine, but it is a good one. According to the tier listing, I have a Tier 2 A class PSU, which should be very stable.
This is my 2nd windows 8.1 installation. I assumed the issues I had with the last one were because of the Windows 7 upgrade I performed rather than a clean install due to my laziness, but a few from the old and new issues have appeared on this recent clean install, suggesting a hardware issue somewhere. I get occasional BSODs, which point to Microsoft drivers (I've looked myself at WinDbg). Memory leaks happen every so-often too, quickly filling the 8GBs I have, but a RAM test yielded no errors. As for the graphics card, I've tried the beta and stable streams, but the flashes still occur.
System spec:
PSU OCZ ZS Bronze 650W
Motherboard Asus M5A99X EVO V1
Soundcard Asus Xonar DGX
GPU AMD Sapphire R9 270X 2GB Dual Fan
CPU AMD 6350 3.5GHz, 4 GHz turbo 6-core
RAM Kingston Genesis Blu 2 x 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz
Harddrives:
Crucial M4 128GB SSD
Seagate 1TB
Western Digital 1TB
Any suggestions?
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