About a month ago, I had to ship back a MSi R9 290 Gaming edition gfx because it gave me a funny rainbow screen whenever I started up the PC then it started (and never stopped) giving me black screens after Windows loading screen.
I shipped the GFX back for warranty and they sent me back a replacement one, same model. No rainbow screens this time around, yay! I made sure the PC only has drivers for this gfx installed.
However, now I'm getting PC freezes of epic proportions followed by black screens at seemingly somewhat random times (usually while playing video games) - at some point the "Display driver has stopped working, but it has recovered" message or something along popped up after one such freeze. At another point, I tried upping the refresh rate on one of my monitors to 144hz (I have 2, one is capable of 144hz, the other one of 60hz), but I got promptly black-screened and had to reset the PC. When I tried that again, the result was the same.
All of this basically has me thinking that I couldn't have possibly got a faulty GFX twice in a row and that problem might lie with the rest of my hardware, maybe the motherboard. I'm basing this suspicion on the fact that the PC simply won't do anything after starting up if I put more than 8gb of RAM on it - along with the GFX upgrade that R9 290 was meant to be, I also wanted to up my RAM from 4gb to 16gb. It could also be the CPU which is now fairly old (as much as the motherboard).
Bear in my that I'm a PC layman and I've no idea why all of this is actually happening.
Here's my configuration:
CPU: Intel i7-860
MoBo: Gigabyte P55A-UD3
RAM: 2x 4gb Corsair Vengeance RAM (CMZ16GX3M4X1866C9 DDR) - I'm only using 2 out of 4 sticks at the moment
Storage: Intel 2,5" SSD 530
PSU: Corsair ATX RM1000W
OS: Win7
I shipped the GFX back for warranty and they sent me back a replacement one, same model. No rainbow screens this time around, yay! I made sure the PC only has drivers for this gfx installed.
However, now I'm getting PC freezes of epic proportions followed by black screens at seemingly somewhat random times (usually while playing video games) - at some point the "Display driver has stopped working, but it has recovered" message or something along popped up after one such freeze. At another point, I tried upping the refresh rate on one of my monitors to 144hz (I have 2, one is capable of 144hz, the other one of 60hz), but I got promptly black-screened and had to reset the PC. When I tried that again, the result was the same.
All of this basically has me thinking that I couldn't have possibly got a faulty GFX twice in a row and that problem might lie with the rest of my hardware, maybe the motherboard. I'm basing this suspicion on the fact that the PC simply won't do anything after starting up if I put more than 8gb of RAM on it - along with the GFX upgrade that R9 290 was meant to be, I also wanted to up my RAM from 4gb to 16gb. It could also be the CPU which is now fairly old (as much as the motherboard).
Bear in my that I'm a PC layman and I've no idea why all of this is actually happening.
Here's my configuration:
CPU: Intel i7-860
MoBo: Gigabyte P55A-UD3
RAM: 2x 4gb Corsair Vengeance RAM (CMZ16GX3M4X1866C9 DDR) - I'm only using 2 out of 4 sticks at the moment
Storage: Intel 2,5" SSD 530
PSU: Corsair ATX RM1000W
OS: Win7
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