Hi guys, new here. Though only as a member. I come here often looking for people with similar problems, as this place seems to have the most intelligent community that I've found. Though, recently I can't find anyone with the same issue as me, so I figured it was time to hop into the forums and get some help.
Recently bought a gtx 1070 because my old radeon hd 7950 was artifacting during games a lot. I also thought it was the culprit with the occasional freezing display during both idle use and gaming. Now with the new card, I'm very happy with the performance (even if I'm getting a bottleneck thanks to 3 yr old components lol). However, the problem still happens, though a little differently. It still occasionally freezes the display (in turn, locking up my keyboard and mouse as well) and all I can do is hard reboot. Most of the time this fixes the problem, and I'll go a whole day without any hiccups. Then other times on boot up, I get a really strange black screen with about 1/3 of the screen taken up with scrambled letters and numbers, and white blocks.
I've found that the frozen boot up with scrambled text to happen more often after powering down properly at the end of the night, then powering it up the next day. A quick hard reboot fixes it and I'm back in business, though I can't feel at ease knowing something is going wrong somewhere in my tower.
I used to have my CPU and GPU overclocked. Though I never touched voltage or anything, just upped the CPU by maybe .1 - .2 GHz and the GPU was maybe +100 core and +200memory clocks. I never felt like pushing my system to it's limits.
My computer specs:
Rosewill Thor V2 Full Tower (Idk why I went so big lol, it's intimidating in the corner at least
)
AMD FX-8350 BE Vishera 8-core 4.0ghz (4.2 turbo)
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard
G.SKill Sniper Series 8GB DDR3 RAM
Rosewill RBR1000-MS Bronze Series 1000-watt PSU
GTX 1070 GPU
What I've done so far to find the culprit:
I'm running into a brick wall, and I can only think it's between the parts I can't really test, like the MOBO or PSU. I'll greatly appreciate any help, and I apologize for the wall of text, I'm just trying to be as thorough as possible for you guys.
Recently bought a gtx 1070 because my old radeon hd 7950 was artifacting during games a lot. I also thought it was the culprit with the occasional freezing display during both idle use and gaming. Now with the new card, I'm very happy with the performance (even if I'm getting a bottleneck thanks to 3 yr old components lol). However, the problem still happens, though a little differently. It still occasionally freezes the display (in turn, locking up my keyboard and mouse as well) and all I can do is hard reboot. Most of the time this fixes the problem, and I'll go a whole day without any hiccups. Then other times on boot up, I get a really strange black screen with about 1/3 of the screen taken up with scrambled letters and numbers, and white blocks.
I've found that the frozen boot up with scrambled text to happen more often after powering down properly at the end of the night, then powering it up the next day. A quick hard reboot fixes it and I'm back in business, though I can't feel at ease knowing something is going wrong somewhere in my tower.
I used to have my CPU and GPU overclocked. Though I never touched voltage or anything, just upped the CPU by maybe .1 - .2 GHz and the GPU was maybe +100 core and +200memory clocks. I never felt like pushing my system to it's limits.
My computer specs:
Rosewill Thor V2 Full Tower (Idk why I went so big lol, it's intimidating in the corner at least
)AMD FX-8350 BE Vishera 8-core 4.0ghz (4.2 turbo)
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard
G.SKill Sniper Series 8GB DDR3 RAM
Rosewill RBR1000-MS Bronze Series 1000-watt PSU
GTX 1070 GPU
What I've done so far to find the culprit:
■ Ran a memory diagnostic, which checked out with zero errors.
■ Reseated the RAM, even switched places.
■ Ran a test on the HDD, zero errors again.
■ Unplugged all cables in the tower, then plugged them back in after cleaning.
■ Updated BIOS to latest version.
■ Reset any bios OCs I had on the CPU.
I'm running into a brick wall, and I can only think it's between the parts I can't really test, like the MOBO or PSU. I'll greatly appreciate any help, and I apologize for the wall of text, I'm just trying to be as thorough as possible for you guys.
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