Hi there.
My PC is about two years old now and I've had several issues with it before but most of them were fixed by the company that I ordered the PC from. However my warranty ran out recently and I'm unable to get parts replaced anymore unless I buy them myself. I can buy a new part assuming it's within the £100 to £280 range. However, my problem is, is that I don't know what in the hell is going on or what is causing it.
It all started back in July when I played Witcher 3, a demanding but very good and well optimised game nonetheless. My PC can push it out at 60FPS if I play on the lowest settings and at 1366x780, and I didn't have a problem with it as I could still play it. I've had the game since May of 2016, but I only started getting issues in July.
The first issue that I noticed was a Blue Screen of Death after I left it idle for about 20 minutes. Before you ask, my GPU was not overheating because my temperature always stays around 68'C to 75'C when I play Witcher 3. I don't exactly remember what the error code was because I restarted straight away. I steered away from Witcher 3 as I was afraid of any further BSoDs. I came back to the game recently (about a week ago) but I couldn't help but notice the constant stuttering that happened which led to crashes and freezes.
I tried to fix this by updating my drivers, defragmenting my HDD, etc. However none of these things helped. At some point I even had a BSoD after I forcefully exited Witcher 3 - this time I had the 'DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION' error. This led to me contacting the people who built my PC and their advice was to get a new Graphics Card, which strikes me as odd because my graphics card is only two years old. But I went along with it anyway, I had planned to get a new GTX 1060 to replace my old GTX 660.
Before I continued through with my plan, I went onto Tomshardware and a kind person helped me out with my system and suggested many other solutions that could help my problem, and he thought my GPU could not possibly be dying as they can last extremely long and rarely ever die. When none of the solutions helped, his last advice was to find a local PC repair shop and get a second opinion on what I should do next. And I did that. But no issues were found by the people who tested my PC.
They stress-tested my GPU with furmark for about two hours and found no issues whatsoever with it, even though all of my issues sound like they're related to the GPU. So right now, I'm very confused, angry and just feel desperate as I just can't understand what is happening to my PC!
Now I get random crashes, stuttering, freezes in random games. My PC is generally slow despite being a quite good system (in my opinion.) and is acting up randomly. I get random freezes on desktop whenever I browse the internet, sometimes things just get stuck for around 5-7 seconds. And I even had an issue where no videos would play on any website, which I fixed by restarting my PC. Not to mention, it took around three minutes for my PC to boot EVEN with Windows 10's "fast boot" option.
This is really my last resort if I want to find out what's wrong, and so I hope you people can help me find out what is wrong and if I can help it. I'm genuinely desperate.
PC SPECS:
POWER SUPPLY: Corsair RM1000 Gold (1000WATT)
MOTHERBOARD: GigaByte Z97-HD3
RAM: 2x4GB (8GB) 1600MHz Kingston HyperX Fury Blue
GPU: Nvidia GTX 660 - palit version
CPU: Intel i7 4790k 4.00GHz
HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive
CASE: Cooler Master Elite 310
CPU COOLER: Cooler Master Seidon 120M Liquid Cooling System
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THINGS I'VE DONE SO FAR:
Uninstall Display Drivers (using DDU) and reinstall them.
Update Chipsets
I TRIED to update my BIOS but it wouldn't let me.
Disable HDMI Playback Devices
My PC is about two years old now and I've had several issues with it before but most of them were fixed by the company that I ordered the PC from. However my warranty ran out recently and I'm unable to get parts replaced anymore unless I buy them myself. I can buy a new part assuming it's within the £100 to £280 range. However, my problem is, is that I don't know what in the hell is going on or what is causing it.
It all started back in July when I played Witcher 3, a demanding but very good and well optimised game nonetheless. My PC can push it out at 60FPS if I play on the lowest settings and at 1366x780, and I didn't have a problem with it as I could still play it. I've had the game since May of 2016, but I only started getting issues in July.
The first issue that I noticed was a Blue Screen of Death after I left it idle for about 20 minutes. Before you ask, my GPU was not overheating because my temperature always stays around 68'C to 75'C when I play Witcher 3. I don't exactly remember what the error code was because I restarted straight away. I steered away from Witcher 3 as I was afraid of any further BSoDs. I came back to the game recently (about a week ago) but I couldn't help but notice the constant stuttering that happened which led to crashes and freezes.
I tried to fix this by updating my drivers, defragmenting my HDD, etc. However none of these things helped. At some point I even had a BSoD after I forcefully exited Witcher 3 - this time I had the 'DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION' error. This led to me contacting the people who built my PC and their advice was to get a new Graphics Card, which strikes me as odd because my graphics card is only two years old. But I went along with it anyway, I had planned to get a new GTX 1060 to replace my old GTX 660.
Before I continued through with my plan, I went onto Tomshardware and a kind person helped me out with my system and suggested many other solutions that could help my problem, and he thought my GPU could not possibly be dying as they can last extremely long and rarely ever die. When none of the solutions helped, his last advice was to find a local PC repair shop and get a second opinion on what I should do next. And I did that. But no issues were found by the people who tested my PC.
They stress-tested my GPU with furmark for about two hours and found no issues whatsoever with it, even though all of my issues sound like they're related to the GPU. So right now, I'm very confused, angry and just feel desperate as I just can't understand what is happening to my PC!
Now I get random crashes, stuttering, freezes in random games. My PC is generally slow despite being a quite good system (in my opinion.) and is acting up randomly. I get random freezes on desktop whenever I browse the internet, sometimes things just get stuck for around 5-7 seconds. And I even had an issue where no videos would play on any website, which I fixed by restarting my PC. Not to mention, it took around three minutes for my PC to boot EVEN with Windows 10's "fast boot" option.
This is really my last resort if I want to find out what's wrong, and so I hope you people can help me find out what is wrong and if I can help it. I'm genuinely desperate.
PC SPECS:
POWER SUPPLY: Corsair RM1000 Gold (1000WATT)
MOTHERBOARD: GigaByte Z97-HD3
RAM: 2x4GB (8GB) 1600MHz Kingston HyperX Fury Blue
GPU: Nvidia GTX 660 - palit version
CPU: Intel i7 4790k 4.00GHz
HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive
CASE: Cooler Master Elite 310
CPU COOLER: Cooler Master Seidon 120M Liquid Cooling System
_____________________________________________________
THINGS I'VE DONE SO FAR:
Uninstall Display Drivers (using DDU) and reinstall them.
Update Chipsets
I TRIED to update my BIOS but it wouldn't let me.
Disable HDMI Playback Devices