- Aug 25, 2016
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Hello everyone,
I have a problem for a few weeks/months now, my gpu's keep getting black screens but the sound continue to play. I can't do anything then turn of my pc the hard way...
The first card that had this problem is a Sapphire R9 290 (reference model with accelero IV cooling). I had this card for over a year when the black screens begin. For a long time i thought it was driver related or in the gpu bios since i flashed a lot of them. I must have flashed over over 20 different bios versions but no succes. One day in bf4 it went on black and stayed that way, even when booting up. I ended up buying a new MSI GTX 980 Gaming 4G that actually worked pretty good for a few days, no problems at all even in heavy battlefield sessions 8 hours+
Since it worked so good i thought i overclock this beast and then actually the same symptons occured. Black screens every time while i was gaming and eventually it died. Not one signal of life. I returned the card to the store where i bought it and they said it worked ok
I was like wtf and explained the story to them, they tested some more and confirmed the card had a defect. Then i knew that that card maybe died because of my overclocking and decided to wont do it again (even if i did it with the last 5 gpu's but ok...)
So i had no gpu at this point and put back in the good old Sapphire R9 290 and it was alive again, i could actually play a few games and then the black screens came back. This time without being overclocked. I was done with the gpu and today i bought another GTX 980, this time an Asus Strix version. I put the card in (before this i ran driver sweeper ofc) and started up gta5, after 2 mins of play it crashes. Now im kinda pissed
Things i done so far:
- replace dual link dvi cable
- try older motherboard bios version
- try other monitor
- other pci-e slot
- underclock the r9 290 to 800/1000
- run prime95 26.6 for 8 hours+
- a lot of cursing after i got a cooldown from cs go again
Basicly my PSU is the prime suspect here in my eyes. It ran fine with a FX 8350 with OC and a R9 290 (also OC) for a long time. I think the problems really started when i switched to i7 6700k.
There is no option for me to borrow a psu or get help from anyone. They have 400-500 psu's. That's ok but before i gonna spend more money at this i want to make sure that my dying psu really is killing my gpu's
One last remark: after i reboot the pc after a black screen i sometimes see artifacts with the newest card. Purple things and stuff. I took it out now and hope it's still ok...
What do you guys think of this? Sorry for bad english btw.
SPECS:
CPU: Intel i7 6700K
GPU: Asus GTX980-STRIX 4GB OC
MOBO: Asus Z170 Pro Gaming
MEM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 2400 C15
PSU: Seasonic Platinum Series 520W Fanless
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB
*edit* http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
The psu is in tier 1
http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page362.htm
according to this 520watt should be ok
I have a problem for a few weeks/months now, my gpu's keep getting black screens but the sound continue to play. I can't do anything then turn of my pc the hard way...
The first card that had this problem is a Sapphire R9 290 (reference model with accelero IV cooling). I had this card for over a year when the black screens begin. For a long time i thought it was driver related or in the gpu bios since i flashed a lot of them. I must have flashed over over 20 different bios versions but no succes. One day in bf4 it went on black and stayed that way, even when booting up. I ended up buying a new MSI GTX 980 Gaming 4G that actually worked pretty good for a few days, no problems at all even in heavy battlefield sessions 8 hours+
Since it worked so good i thought i overclock this beast and then actually the same symptons occured. Black screens every time while i was gaming and eventually it died. Not one signal of life. I returned the card to the store where i bought it and they said it worked ok
I was like wtf and explained the story to them, they tested some more and confirmed the card had a defect. Then i knew that that card maybe died because of my overclocking and decided to wont do it again (even if i did it with the last 5 gpu's but ok...)
So i had no gpu at this point and put back in the good old Sapphire R9 290 and it was alive again, i could actually play a few games and then the black screens came back. This time without being overclocked. I was done with the gpu and today i bought another GTX 980, this time an Asus Strix version. I put the card in (before this i ran driver sweeper ofc) and started up gta5, after 2 mins of play it crashes. Now im kinda pissed
Things i done so far:
- replace dual link dvi cable
- try older motherboard bios version
- try other monitor
- other pci-e slot
- underclock the r9 290 to 800/1000
- run prime95 26.6 for 8 hours+
- a lot of cursing after i got a cooldown from cs go again
Basicly my PSU is the prime suspect here in my eyes. It ran fine with a FX 8350 with OC and a R9 290 (also OC) for a long time. I think the problems really started when i switched to i7 6700k.
There is no option for me to borrow a psu or get help from anyone. They have 400-500 psu's. That's ok but before i gonna spend more money at this i want to make sure that my dying psu really is killing my gpu's
One last remark: after i reboot the pc after a black screen i sometimes see artifacts with the newest card. Purple things and stuff. I took it out now and hope it's still ok...
What do you guys think of this? Sorry for bad english btw.
SPECS:
CPU: Intel i7 6700K
GPU: Asus GTX980-STRIX 4GB OC
MOBO: Asus Z170 Pro Gaming
MEM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 2400 C15
PSU: Seasonic Platinum Series 520W Fanless
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB
*edit* http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
The psu is in tier 1
http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page362.htm
according to this 520watt should be ok
The whocrashed at least mentions for you that it looks like a typical driver issue and not a hardware one which, while not 100%, looks promising, but having read your post you've already been through the driver sweeper, fresh driver install stuff so I don't know what to recommend there...
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