- Jun 4, 2016
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So to start things off, this PC is around 8 years old. I built it in 2008 but have upgraded some parts.
Motherboard: EVGA 780i SLI
Graphics card: Used to be GTX 260, now GTX 560 Ti
HDD: New intel SSD with OS on it + older HD
RAM: OCZ PC2 8500 2 GB x 2
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5 GHz
OS: Originally Windows 7, then Windows 10, currently installing 8.1
This computer used to chug along with its pretty old graphics card (GTX 260), trying to play newer games. They'd usually be pretty slow and it would get hot but nothing crazy happened.
I had Geforce Experience installed and downloaded the latest update a week or so ago.
That's when the issues began.
At first the display would just turn off during games. No matter what I did I could not get the monitor to find any signal unless I restarted the computer. And yes, the computer just kept being on after the display signal was lost (though I was never able to confirm whether it actually was running normally or if it froze completely).
Eventually I couldn't even do basic tasks, and it would lose signal even while I was booting up Safe Mode.
I replaced the graphics card and decided to install Windows 10. However for some reason the boot CD I made wouldn't work, so I had to install Windows 7 again, then upgrade to Windows 10 (after downloading all the Windows updates, of course).
Everything worked completely fine during the OS install. After everything was done I tried to run a game and boom display lost again and computer restarted. I installed the latest Nvidia drivers with Geforce experience. Everything worked for about a day, then again, display was lost and computer restarted.
One thing to note is that while in Windows 7 the display was lost and the computer remained on, in Windows 10 the display is lost and then the computer restarts itself after a few seconds.
I ran a program I read about on here and other places that completely uninstalls and cleans your display drivers, and I installed the driver directly from the GPU manufacturer's site (in this case, Palit)
Still the same issue.
Updated my BIOS firmware, still the same issue.
I then decided to try to check the voltages of the CPUs and things like that but didn't really have an idea of what values to look for. I read that I can change my vCore setting in the BIOS to what Realtemp says my CPU VID is. I did that as well.
Eventually my keyboard drivers just randomly stopped working so I am currently doing a fresh Windows 8.1 install (since Windows 10 seems to have a problem with updating drivers).
The new OS attempts have been done on a new SSD I purchased after I swapped the graphic cards. I still have the old HD plugged in but I assumed it couldn't cause any problems that would result in a crash/freeze if its not the HD that the OS is loading from.
Any suggestions?
Motherboard: EVGA 780i SLI
Graphics card: Used to be GTX 260, now GTX 560 Ti
HDD: New intel SSD with OS on it + older HD
RAM: OCZ PC2 8500 2 GB x 2
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5 GHz
OS: Originally Windows 7, then Windows 10, currently installing 8.1
This computer used to chug along with its pretty old graphics card (GTX 260), trying to play newer games. They'd usually be pretty slow and it would get hot but nothing crazy happened.
I had Geforce Experience installed and downloaded the latest update a week or so ago.
That's when the issues began.
At first the display would just turn off during games. No matter what I did I could not get the monitor to find any signal unless I restarted the computer. And yes, the computer just kept being on after the display signal was lost (though I was never able to confirm whether it actually was running normally or if it froze completely).
Eventually I couldn't even do basic tasks, and it would lose signal even while I was booting up Safe Mode.
I replaced the graphics card and decided to install Windows 10. However for some reason the boot CD I made wouldn't work, so I had to install Windows 7 again, then upgrade to Windows 10 (after downloading all the Windows updates, of course).
Everything worked completely fine during the OS install. After everything was done I tried to run a game and boom display lost again and computer restarted. I installed the latest Nvidia drivers with Geforce experience. Everything worked for about a day, then again, display was lost and computer restarted.
One thing to note is that while in Windows 7 the display was lost and the computer remained on, in Windows 10 the display is lost and then the computer restarts itself after a few seconds.
I ran a program I read about on here and other places that completely uninstalls and cleans your display drivers, and I installed the driver directly from the GPU manufacturer's site (in this case, Palit)
Still the same issue.
Updated my BIOS firmware, still the same issue.
I then decided to try to check the voltages of the CPUs and things like that but didn't really have an idea of what values to look for. I read that I can change my vCore setting in the BIOS to what Realtemp says my CPU VID is. I did that as well.
Eventually my keyboard drivers just randomly stopped working so I am currently doing a fresh Windows 8.1 install (since Windows 10 seems to have a problem with updating drivers).
The new OS attempts have been done on a new SSD I purchased after I swapped the graphic cards. I still have the old HD plugged in but I assumed it couldn't cause any problems that would result in a crash/freeze if its not the HD that the OS is loading from.
Any suggestions?
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