Hello Tom's Hardware pros, I'm kind of a newbie on the world of PC gaming and also at fixing it's problems. Recently I bought a brand new Mid-range GPU a EVGA GTX 750 Ti Superclocked.
- What I did to install:
1. Removed the OLD GPU (GTX 550 Ti), and then I put the brand new GTX 750 Ti. Beautiful.
2. Booted my PC.
From the beginning everything went fine, until a black screen appears and a message says, NVidia Driver has stopped working and has recovered bla bla... I thought "Well ok, fine." Then It happened again, and again, and again... Every 5-10 Minutes when Idle. Then I went to google to find a solution, while I was typing on google about the problem, my PC Froze, completely, my HDD light usage indicator went off, no blinking, it just turned off from power PSU. Now It happens all the time, randomly.
At the beginning I thought my hard drive was messed up. I tried "chkdsk" on cmd.exe, no errors found, then thought it could be RAM maybe, tried to run a memory check for erros, guess what? No erros. Well below there is a list of what I've tried so far:
- Removed RAM from motherboard to clean. [Didn't work]
- Removed Hard Disk to clean. [Didn't work]
I began to assume it was a PSU problem.
- Went to bios UEFI Setup and lowered CPU voltage. (NVidia Driver is now working fine, no black screens!)
But the computer still freezing, HDD light turns off.
- Opened my computer changed HDD Cables, changed from SATA 1 to SATA 5. (Problem seems to be vanished FOR A WHILE)
Well isn't that funny? my old GPU Used 140 Watts while the new only 60 Watts, and now I'm getting PSU problem? What do you guys think? I need to know what's the real problem here, so the problem is: Hard Disk? RAM? PSU? or the new GPU?
Oh by the way my Specs:
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- AMD A10 7850K Quad-Core 3.7GHz
- 6GB RAM 1600MHz
- HDD 500GB
- GTX 750 Ti EVGA Superclocked.
- Blue Case PSU 500W. < Low quality. ;(
Really thanks guys, awaiting for replies. Have a good one.
- What I did to install:
1. Removed the OLD GPU (GTX 550 Ti), and then I put the brand new GTX 750 Ti. Beautiful.
2. Booted my PC.
From the beginning everything went fine, until a black screen appears and a message says, NVidia Driver has stopped working and has recovered bla bla... I thought "Well ok, fine." Then It happened again, and again, and again... Every 5-10 Minutes when Idle. Then I went to google to find a solution, while I was typing on google about the problem, my PC Froze, completely, my HDD light usage indicator went off, no blinking, it just turned off from power PSU. Now It happens all the time, randomly.
At the beginning I thought my hard drive was messed up. I tried "chkdsk" on cmd.exe, no errors found, then thought it could be RAM maybe, tried to run a memory check for erros, guess what? No erros. Well below there is a list of what I've tried so far:
- Removed RAM from motherboard to clean. [Didn't work]
- Removed Hard Disk to clean. [Didn't work]
I began to assume it was a PSU problem.
- Went to bios UEFI Setup and lowered CPU voltage. (NVidia Driver is now working fine, no black screens!)
But the computer still freezing, HDD light turns off.
- Opened my computer changed HDD Cables, changed from SATA 1 to SATA 5. (Problem seems to be vanished FOR A WHILE)
Well isn't that funny? my old GPU Used 140 Watts while the new only 60 Watts, and now I'm getting PSU problem? What do you guys think? I need to know what's the real problem here, so the problem is: Hard Disk? RAM? PSU? or the new GPU?
Oh by the way my Specs:
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- AMD A10 7850K Quad-Core 3.7GHz
- 6GB RAM 1600MHz
- HDD 500GB
- GTX 750 Ti EVGA Superclocked.
- Blue Case PSU 500W. < Low quality. ;(
Really thanks guys, awaiting for replies. Have a good one.
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