I recently upgraded my system and have been having some interesting issues with it and am trying to figure out what the problem could be and thought I would reach out to you guys to possibly get an idea.
I upgraded and have a Intel i5 4690K, ASUS Z97-AR Motherboard, Corsair Vengeance 2X8GB 1600, MSI Lightning GTX 680, Kingston 120GB SSD, Western Digital 650GB HDD, and a Thermal Take 750W PSU.
Everything is new except for the HDD and my GTX 680.
So far everything seems to be running normal, this is my second build, and I know a decent amount about computers. When I first ran it, everything was great, I got windows 7 installed just fine, got my Motherboard CD and all the drivers installed just fine, got my GPU drivers installed just fine, and started installing all my programs/games etc...
A few hours into the night I noticed, randomly my PC shut down, no error, no BSOD nothing, my monitors just went black and my PC restarted, no Windows did not shut down normally or anything ( my first thought was maybe that was a hiccup since its a brand new system, who knows) anyways it proceeded to run fine the rest of the night with no issues. (Used it to download/install basic stuff for about 5-6 hours total, then to finish downloading all my steam games, I left it on all night and figured I would kind of let it idle/test overnight) and woke up in the morning to it on, no errors hadn't shut down nothing, so I shut it down, and went to work. Then today when I got home from work, I turned it on, and right when it should have gone to my login screen the screen went black again. I let it sit there for a few minutes, and nothing, so I restarted it and got the windows did not start normally and everything was fine. And then it started doing this thing, where its seems like on every other restart or so, my mouse will stop working intermittenly, and sometimes my screen will go in and out, I got a message a few times saying my driver kernal or something (doesn't stay up long enough to see) has crashed and windows recovered it, and one time I BSOD and I want to say I saw the error was something about nvd....so my first thought was possibly my nVidia driver might be screwed up and maybe rollback, so I'm going to try that, but whenever that has happened, my mouse will work intermittenly, so I'm also wondering could it be a USB/MoBo driver/issue you think?
Again it seems like its only on every restart/boot...when I get a "clean" boot it works perfectly fine..like right now, and I bet if I restart it will do something funky, and I will have to restart it again, and it will be fine after that, so I don't really know what kind of issue that could be. There are so fare no real errors/issues to look up other that that "kernal/driver" popup thats come up a few times and that one BSOD that I want to say had something along the lines of nvd in it, which made me think my Nvidia driver.
I've been monitoring my CPU temps since I've ran my new system, and basic/idle stuff it sits around 20, so that isn't bad, I've had my 680 for over 6 months, and in my old PC I've never had an issue with it, and from the way my system is acting it doesn't seem like its a hardware issue, or it seems like to me it would be acting up more..because I can be on a boot for hours and hours and have no problems, or I could be a on boot for 20 minutes and restart and have an issue, and to me that seems like software, I just don't know which, I've never had an issue with MoBo/GPU software like that.
Sorry for the long post, hopefully someone can shine some light into this, and help me out, hopefully it is a software issue that can be easily fixed. Thank you!
I upgraded and have a Intel i5 4690K, ASUS Z97-AR Motherboard, Corsair Vengeance 2X8GB 1600, MSI Lightning GTX 680, Kingston 120GB SSD, Western Digital 650GB HDD, and a Thermal Take 750W PSU.
Everything is new except for the HDD and my GTX 680.
So far everything seems to be running normal, this is my second build, and I know a decent amount about computers. When I first ran it, everything was great, I got windows 7 installed just fine, got my Motherboard CD and all the drivers installed just fine, got my GPU drivers installed just fine, and started installing all my programs/games etc...
A few hours into the night I noticed, randomly my PC shut down, no error, no BSOD nothing, my monitors just went black and my PC restarted, no Windows did not shut down normally or anything ( my first thought was maybe that was a hiccup since its a brand new system, who knows) anyways it proceeded to run fine the rest of the night with no issues. (Used it to download/install basic stuff for about 5-6 hours total, then to finish downloading all my steam games, I left it on all night and figured I would kind of let it idle/test overnight) and woke up in the morning to it on, no errors hadn't shut down nothing, so I shut it down, and went to work. Then today when I got home from work, I turned it on, and right when it should have gone to my login screen the screen went black again. I let it sit there for a few minutes, and nothing, so I restarted it and got the windows did not start normally and everything was fine. And then it started doing this thing, where its seems like on every other restart or so, my mouse will stop working intermittenly, and sometimes my screen will go in and out, I got a message a few times saying my driver kernal or something (doesn't stay up long enough to see) has crashed and windows recovered it, and one time I BSOD and I want to say I saw the error was something about nvd....so my first thought was possibly my nVidia driver might be screwed up and maybe rollback, so I'm going to try that, but whenever that has happened, my mouse will work intermittenly, so I'm also wondering could it be a USB/MoBo driver/issue you think?
Again it seems like its only on every restart/boot...when I get a "clean" boot it works perfectly fine..like right now, and I bet if I restart it will do something funky, and I will have to restart it again, and it will be fine after that, so I don't really know what kind of issue that could be. There are so fare no real errors/issues to look up other that that "kernal/driver" popup thats come up a few times and that one BSOD that I want to say had something along the lines of nvd in it, which made me think my Nvidia driver.
I've been monitoring my CPU temps since I've ran my new system, and basic/idle stuff it sits around 20, so that isn't bad, I've had my 680 for over 6 months, and in my old PC I've never had an issue with it, and from the way my system is acting it doesn't seem like its a hardware issue, or it seems like to me it would be acting up more..because I can be on a boot for hours and hours and have no problems, or I could be a on boot for 20 minutes and restart and have an issue, and to me that seems like software, I just don't know which, I've never had an issue with MoBo/GPU software like that.
Sorry for the long post, hopefully someone can shine some light into this, and help me out, hopefully it is a software issue that can be easily fixed. Thank you!
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