Good morning,
I'm writing to you because I'm having some severe issues with my recently upgraded computer (also hoping it doesn't freeze as I type this). Specs below:
■ Case: Corsair Carbide Series 200R
■ Motherboard: Asus Z97-A
■ Processor: Intel Core i5 4570k 3.2ghz
■ MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X
■ Memory: 16GB G.SkiLL RAM
■ 1TB Samsung Evo 850 SSD
■ EVGA 600B Bronze Power Supply (600W)
So, I received my new graphics card, RAM, and SSD this past Saturday (7/16). After doing a clean install of Windows 10 on my SSD, starting from scratch, reinstalling all of my programs, put in the RAM and graphics card, installed drivers, etc, things were running great. I booted up Overwatch and enjoyed getting over 120FPS (my old graphics card sucked) at beautiful quality.
On Monday, I had some free time and decided I would play again. Opened up Overwatch, had horrible FPS issues (not sure if there was a driver update or something?). Uninstalled all drivers, reinstalled, didn't work. Tried it again, it worked. Cool - started playing again and it ran fine the rest of the night. Started it up again Tuesday, same issue. Tried the uninstall/reinstall of the drivers, nothing. Tried reinstalling Overwatch, nothing. Now it's even worse - the computer will randomly stutter/lag for a few seconds where I can't move my mouse or click any programs, or it'll freeze until I hard-reset it by pressing the power button.
It's Thursday night now, and I'm still having the same issue. When I open up any game/demanding program, my computer freezes (sometimes with static/audio loop, sometimes silent) and I have to hold the power button until it shuts off and I can restart. This only happens once I've installed the Nvidia drivers (no matter which version I use) - and it doesn't happen in safe mode.
Things I have tried so far:
■ Ran Memtest to check RAM - no errors.
■ Reinstalled Windows 10 - didn't fix anything.
■ Updated Intel drivers for my motherboard.
■ Ran DDU and uninstalled/reinstalled every driver version available for my card multiple times. No luck.
■ Ran CCleaner to clean the registry/deleted the NVIDIA folder.
■ Monitored GPU/CPU temps using MSI Afterburner - both seem stable.
■ Checked RAM/CPU Voltage in BIOS - both are normal/correct.
At this point, I'm not sure what else I can do. I was super excited to start gaming and it has been a complete nightmare spending all of my time after work trying to fix this and having no luck. The only remaining issue I can think of is that my PSU is somehow failing as it's the oldest item in the build, but I thought the computer would turn off if that was the case.
I've noticed this problem mainly occurs when I go from an idle state (sitting on desktop/browsing Reddit) to opening a graphic intensive game like Overwatch).
Hoping you guys can help me out - thank you very much in advance, and please let me know if you need any more info from me.
I'm writing to you because I'm having some severe issues with my recently upgraded computer (also hoping it doesn't freeze as I type this). Specs below:
■ Case: Corsair Carbide Series 200R
■ Motherboard: Asus Z97-A
■ Processor: Intel Core i5 4570k 3.2ghz
■ MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X
■ Memory: 16GB G.SkiLL RAM
■ 1TB Samsung Evo 850 SSD
■ EVGA 600B Bronze Power Supply (600W)
So, I received my new graphics card, RAM, and SSD this past Saturday (7/16). After doing a clean install of Windows 10 on my SSD, starting from scratch, reinstalling all of my programs, put in the RAM and graphics card, installed drivers, etc, things were running great. I booted up Overwatch and enjoyed getting over 120FPS (my old graphics card sucked) at beautiful quality.
On Monday, I had some free time and decided I would play again. Opened up Overwatch, had horrible FPS issues (not sure if there was a driver update or something?). Uninstalled all drivers, reinstalled, didn't work. Tried it again, it worked. Cool - started playing again and it ran fine the rest of the night. Started it up again Tuesday, same issue. Tried the uninstall/reinstall of the drivers, nothing. Tried reinstalling Overwatch, nothing. Now it's even worse - the computer will randomly stutter/lag for a few seconds where I can't move my mouse or click any programs, or it'll freeze until I hard-reset it by pressing the power button.
It's Thursday night now, and I'm still having the same issue. When I open up any game/demanding program, my computer freezes (sometimes with static/audio loop, sometimes silent) and I have to hold the power button until it shuts off and I can restart. This only happens once I've installed the Nvidia drivers (no matter which version I use) - and it doesn't happen in safe mode.
Things I have tried so far:
■ Ran Memtest to check RAM - no errors.
■ Reinstalled Windows 10 - didn't fix anything.
■ Updated Intel drivers for my motherboard.
■ Ran DDU and uninstalled/reinstalled every driver version available for my card multiple times. No luck.
■ Ran CCleaner to clean the registry/deleted the NVIDIA folder.
■ Monitored GPU/CPU temps using MSI Afterburner - both seem stable.
■ Checked RAM/CPU Voltage in BIOS - both are normal/correct.
At this point, I'm not sure what else I can do. I was super excited to start gaming and it has been a complete nightmare spending all of my time after work trying to fix this and having no luck. The only remaining issue I can think of is that my PSU is somehow failing as it's the oldest item in the build, but I thought the computer would turn off if that was the case.
I've noticed this problem mainly occurs when I go from an idle state (sitting on desktop/browsing Reddit) to opening a graphic intensive game like Overwatch).
Hoping you guys can help me out - thank you very much in advance, and please let me know if you need any more info from me.
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