- Mar 25, 2016
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Hi!
I recently built my computer back in January of this year and ever since I got my GPU it has been freezing when playing games, watching videos or live streams, and sometimes even just idling.
I should mention that my computer never crashed prior to installing my graphics card. I was delayed in purchasing it due to cost at the time of building my computer. I couldn't do anything too intensive with it before I installed my GPU but, I did have my CPU at a stable 4.5GHz overclock before installing my GPU. I have since reverted everything back to stock speeds.
When it does freeze the last sound played continues in a loop and the computer is unresponsive and requires a hard reset via the power button. The reset button on my case does nothing but it works when it is not frozen.
I recently re-seated my GPU and Memory in hopes of it being a bad connection to the motherboard but that seems to have made the freezes occur every time I am playing games. I should note that the GPU is performing as it should. No frame rate issues at all.
I have been researching this issue non stop over the past month or so and have turned up no results. After my research though, I have been considering replacing parts, namely my power supply, motherboard, and memory.
I ran memtest and my memory passed with no issues. Stress Testing my CPU and GPU has turned up no results as they pass those tests just fine.
I have made sure that windows and all my drivers are up to date.
Specs are as follows:
UPDATE: It seems that increasing the voltage on my GPU via MSI Afterburner has solved my crashing!
I recently built my computer back in January of this year and ever since I got my GPU it has been freezing when playing games, watching videos or live streams, and sometimes even just idling.
I should mention that my computer never crashed prior to installing my graphics card. I was delayed in purchasing it due to cost at the time of building my computer. I couldn't do anything too intensive with it before I installed my GPU but, I did have my CPU at a stable 4.5GHz overclock before installing my GPU. I have since reverted everything back to stock speeds.
When it does freeze the last sound played continues in a loop and the computer is unresponsive and requires a hard reset via the power button. The reset button on my case does nothing but it works when it is not frozen.
I recently re-seated my GPU and Memory in hopes of it being a bad connection to the motherboard but that seems to have made the freezes occur every time I am playing games. I should note that the GPU is performing as it should. No frame rate issues at all.
I have been researching this issue non stop over the past month or so and have turned up no results. After my research though, I have been considering replacing parts, namely my power supply, motherboard, and memory.
I ran memtest and my memory passed with no issues. Stress Testing my CPU and GPU has turned up no results as they pass those tests just fine.
I have made sure that windows and all my drivers are up to date.
Specs are as follows:
Motherboard - ASUS Maximus VIII Hero
CPU - Intel Core i5 6600k
Memory - 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2400
Power Supply - Corsair RM1000 1000W
GPU - ASUS Strix 980ti OC Edition
Storage - Samsung 850 EVO 250GB(Boot Drive) - Seagate 3TB 7200RPM
Operating System - Windows 10 Pro
UPDATE: It seems that increasing the voltage on my GPU via MSI Afterburner has solved my crashing!
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