- Aug 23, 2012
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Hi everyone. I used to be very active here pre-website overhaul. Mostly hung out in the Systems section helping people out with their builds in varying budgets. I now seek your expert advice as I am out of ideas.
I've had this PC since January 2013. It's worked perfectly until recently.
Specs:
- i7-3770K
- ASRock z77 Extreme6
- Powercolor Radeon HD 7950
- OCZ Vertex 4 128gb
- WD Caviar Blue 1TB
- Seasonic M12II 520w
- G.Skill Sniper 2x4gb
It started at about 5 days ago, I wasn't doing anything new or special, it just happened out of nowhere. I'm not very good at describing, but I found pictures (courtesy of Google) that look EXACTLY like what I'm seeing.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g138/batmx3man/DSC07455.jpg
or sometimes like this,
http://oi49.tinypic.com/34qpsnr.jpg
I've experienced both. There doesn't seem to be a steady background color when it crashes -- sometimes white, green, red, I've even seen flesh-y color.
Stuff I've tried:
- GPU stress test: Unigine Heaven with tesselation and x4 AA. Ran it for about an hour-ish, no crash.
- Memory: Memtest86, ran it for about 2 hours, no errors.
- sfc /scannow
- Updated catalyst driver. (I was on 14.12 for 7 months, only updated now to 15.7 thinking it's the driver)
- OCCT test for CPU, GPU, and Power Supply.
- downclocked GPU from 800/1250 to 790/1150.
- messed with voltages in the BIOS/UEFI
I've researched high and low, but I've never found a definitive answer. At one point, my research pointed a lot to my video card dying, but I'm just not convinced it is.
What's making this harder is there's no 100% way to replicate the crash at will. It just happens when I play games like Dota 2, which isn't even a graphically taxing game. The only other stuff open when it crashes aside from Dota 2 is of course Steam, and Google Chrome tabs.
I've had this PC since January 2013. It's worked perfectly until recently.
Specs:
- i7-3770K
- ASRock z77 Extreme6
- Powercolor Radeon HD 7950
- OCZ Vertex 4 128gb
- WD Caviar Blue 1TB
- Seasonic M12II 520w
- G.Skill Sniper 2x4gb
It started at about 5 days ago, I wasn't doing anything new or special, it just happened out of nowhere. I'm not very good at describing, but I found pictures (courtesy of Google) that look EXACTLY like what I'm seeing.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g138/batmx3man/DSC07455.jpg
or sometimes like this,
http://oi49.tinypic.com/34qpsnr.jpg
I've experienced both. There doesn't seem to be a steady background color when it crashes -- sometimes white, green, red, I've even seen flesh-y color.
Stuff I've tried:
- GPU stress test: Unigine Heaven with tesselation and x4 AA. Ran it for about an hour-ish, no crash.
- Memory: Memtest86, ran it for about 2 hours, no errors.
- sfc /scannow
- Updated catalyst driver. (I was on 14.12 for 7 months, only updated now to 15.7 thinking it's the driver)
- OCCT test for CPU, GPU, and Power Supply.
- downclocked GPU from 800/1250 to 790/1150.
- messed with voltages in the BIOS/UEFI
I've researched high and low, but I've never found a definitive answer. At one point, my research pointed a lot to my video card dying, but I'm just not convinced it is.
What's making this harder is there's no 100% way to replicate the crash at will. It just happens when I play games like Dota 2, which isn't even a graphically taxing game. The only other stuff open when it crashes aside from Dota 2 is of course Steam, and Google Chrome tabs.
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