Computer Crash After a Random Period of Time

jacobb7

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For the past couple of weeks I've been having some, what seemed to be, hardware issues. The screen would freeze for a couple of seconds and then go black, and revert back to normal with an error message on the bottom right of the screen saying something along the lines of "Nvidia display driver has stopped working and has recovered." After completely ignoring that for a couple of weeks, I decided to investigate a little. I downloaded EVGA Precision X and saw that my GPU temperatures were ranging anywhere from 35 C on "standby" up to 80 C whilst gaming. Specifically, League of Legends on Medium/High settings. Assuming the temperature on that card was too much for it to handle, it being 4 years old, I swapped it out for a massive upgrade. Installed now is a GTX Titan X with a 750 W Corsair power supply. Supposedly for the Titan the power supply for the system is a minimum of 600 W, so I believe I'm good in that area. I have reinstalled the latest drivers a multitude of times in the past two days for my GPU and double checked that all other drivers are up to date -- which they are. As of now there is one persisting issue. The Crash.
This crash has two parts. The screen will freeze, nothing will move no matter how long I wait. It will not recover. Simultaneously, there is a sharp sound through my headphones I use at all times, for about half a second, comparable to that of TV static -- but again, only for an instant. Please help, as I don't know where to go from here with repairing my computer. Thank you.
It's also very much worth mentioning the computer had not been cleaned out in a very long time until recently, that being about 3 years of dust buildup. When I opened it up I removed a very sizeable amount of dust from fans and parts.

Parts List:
OS: Windows 10
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770k CPU @3.50GHz
 
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The Titan X is a Maxwell based GPU which is not supported by the CX750M but there is no rule to this anyway. If you can test the PSU without the Titan X and it works well then you found your...


OK so, i'm not saying that the PSU is your problem here but the CX series from Corsair are very low quality and are known for creating problems or even stop working.
 

jacobb7

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Is there a way to test the power supply itself or is the only option to test the machine with another power supply? I still have the other power supply but it's not enough to power the Titan, but I also have the old graphics card -- that I believe is malfunctional.
 


The Titan X is a Maxwell based GPU which is not supported by the CX750M but there is no rule to this anyway. If you can test the PSU without the Titan X and it works well then you found your problem.
 
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jacobb7

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Alright thanks. I'm kinda waiting for the next time it crashes because I don't know what actually induces the crash. When it does I'm going to test it by taking out the Titan and seeing if it crashes ever -- which I imagine it should.