Hi guys,
A couple of months ago my computer started occasionally doing this thing where both of my monitors went a blank colour with lines across them and the only thing I can do was restart, then everything would be back to normal. I didn't think much of it since it happened pretty rarely.
This is a picture of the most recent failure (which was actually minutes after playing a game and exiting out of it):
However, it's starting to happen a lot now (mainly when I play games). When the failure occurs, 50% of the time I can still hear my music and everything fine, I just can't do anything else with the PC. The other 50% of the time the sound glitches too and just creates a continous hum.
My PC spec is as follows (bearing in mind I am not overclocking at all):
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-H97-D3H
GPU - MSI AMD R9 280 (3GB, GDDR5)
CPU - Intel i5 4690 Quad Core
PSU - Corsair Builder Series CXM 600W Modular 80 PLUS Bronze Certified
Memory - Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Now, I think the chances are that is my GPU that is failing. However, I want to be 100% sure before forking out for a new one incase it ends up being the PSU or the motherboard. My whole PC is only 18 months old.
My case has plenty of space and decent airflow with 3 case fans. I fully cleaned out my case and took my gpu out and plugged both my monitors into my motherboard and used the intel HD integrated graphics for a while. The problem never happened. This points towards it being the GPU that is faulty but then it occured to me that the PSU will be under less demand without the GPU plugged in, so I'm thinking there is still a chance that it is the PSU.
I ran a CPU torture test and everything was fine, then I ran a GPU stress test and the failure occured.
I ran MSI Afterburner whilst playing a game and this is what the numbers were:
GPU Max. Temp. - 45
GPU fan tachometer - 944 RPM
GPU Core Clock, MHz - 972 MHz
GPU Memory clock, MHz - 1250 MHz
CPU Max. Temperature - 51
This temperatures are all fine so it obviously isn't overheating.
Am I thinking too much into this or is there a way I can fully make sure that it isn't my PSU or motherboard that is causing the problem?
Sorry for the wall of text and cheers in advance for any help.
A couple of months ago my computer started occasionally doing this thing where both of my monitors went a blank colour with lines across them and the only thing I can do was restart, then everything would be back to normal. I didn't think much of it since it happened pretty rarely.
This is a picture of the most recent failure (which was actually minutes after playing a game and exiting out of it):
However, it's starting to happen a lot now (mainly when I play games). When the failure occurs, 50% of the time I can still hear my music and everything fine, I just can't do anything else with the PC. The other 50% of the time the sound glitches too and just creates a continous hum.
My PC spec is as follows (bearing in mind I am not overclocking at all):
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-H97-D3H
GPU - MSI AMD R9 280 (3GB, GDDR5)
CPU - Intel i5 4690 Quad Core
PSU - Corsair Builder Series CXM 600W Modular 80 PLUS Bronze Certified
Memory - Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Now, I think the chances are that is my GPU that is failing. However, I want to be 100% sure before forking out for a new one incase it ends up being the PSU or the motherboard. My whole PC is only 18 months old.
My case has plenty of space and decent airflow with 3 case fans. I fully cleaned out my case and took my gpu out and plugged both my monitors into my motherboard and used the intel HD integrated graphics for a while. The problem never happened. This points towards it being the GPU that is faulty but then it occured to me that the PSU will be under less demand without the GPU plugged in, so I'm thinking there is still a chance that it is the PSU.
I ran a CPU torture test and everything was fine, then I ran a GPU stress test and the failure occured.
I ran MSI Afterburner whilst playing a game and this is what the numbers were:
GPU Max. Temp. - 45
GPU fan tachometer - 944 RPM
GPU Core Clock, MHz - 972 MHz
GPU Memory clock, MHz - 1250 MHz
CPU Max. Temperature - 51
This temperatures are all fine so it obviously isn't overheating.
Am I thinking too much into this or is there a way I can fully make sure that it isn't my PSU or motherboard that is causing the problem?
Sorry for the wall of text and cheers in advance for any help.
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