Hello my friends,
before you ask: Yes, I am aware that there are plenty of threads featuring the same topic. Unfortunatly I spent now about 6 days of reading them here and on other sites.
I currently suffer random reboots of my system. It started about a 10 days ago while playing cities skylines. In the meantime it also crashes while playing an even older game (cities in motion). However higher demanding games like ArmA 3 & GTA Online are running quite well - except the latter one crashed 2 times in about 80hrs of playing.
Cities Skylines crashes within 10 minutes now.
In the beginning I was not sure where the problem is, so I tested a lot of stuff & finally opened another thread which should be closed already. However the long version can be found here:
Short Version:
AMD Radeon R9 290 (Club 3D)
4096 MB / GDDR5
Windows 10 (64 bit)
12 GB RAM DDR3 - 2x 4GB; 2x 2GB
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz
ASRock H97 Pro4 Mainboard
Coolermasters G750M
Bought everything in spring 2015.
I tested the RAM, CPU (prime95) and nothing brought up any error.
I updated the drivers, which did not helped. I tried it with older drivers, which did not helped either.
Then I started to cap my fps, after that I found a thread suggesting to force constant voltage and finally found one suggesting to lower the Core & Memory Clock a little bit. Nothing of that stuff helped.
Finally I was able to borrow an older GPU yesterday (GTX 550Ti) and ran Cities quite smoothly for about 2hrs.
That led me to the suggestion that either there is something wrong with my GPU or my PSU is simply not giving enough power - which cannot be excluded as the GTX is not demanding as much as the R9 290.
However 750W/12V should be sufficient I think?
So I ran the 3DMark DirectX11 Benchmark today and logged my GPU state with GPU-Z.
My system rebooted in the third test I think? (the one in the jungle).
However the log shows that it crashed after the high demand/ stress scene, at least that is what I read out of it. I attached it anyhow.
The test starts about 13:47h.
That suggests that it is not the PSU right?
I just want to be sure as the higher power PSU is about as expensive as a comparable new card/ the same again. So it would be cool to know that it is surely the GPU and I don't have to buy both in the end.
Glad for any help.
before you ask: Yes, I am aware that there are plenty of threads featuring the same topic. Unfortunatly I spent now about 6 days of reading them here and on other sites.
I currently suffer random reboots of my system. It started about a 10 days ago while playing cities skylines. In the meantime it also crashes while playing an even older game (cities in motion). However higher demanding games like ArmA 3 & GTA Online are running quite well - except the latter one crashed 2 times in about 80hrs of playing.
Cities Skylines crashes within 10 minutes now.
In the beginning I was not sure where the problem is, so I tested a lot of stuff & finally opened another thread which should be closed already. However the long version can be found here:
Hello, I am not sure if this "systems" is right , but I thought as it is about the whole system it should be okay.
As one might guess from the titel, my pc crashes after playing between 10 & 20 minutes cities skyline. Sometimes also randomly (and after more than 2-4hrs) while gta online, but that only happend 2 times. But it still happend.
So there must be anything wrong with my system that little voice in my head told me and I startet to do all the regular stuff.
I updated my drivers - graphics, chipset & audio.
I ran memtest for about 2-3h and it didn't reveal any errors
I ran prime95 for about 7h and it also didn't reveal any errors.
I also bought a new psu about a year ago so I am pretty sure it is not about that, even though I back-checked it with the "psu calculator" of coolermasters - not sure how much that is worth, but after the results it gave me, it shouldn't be the problem.
My current specs - no overclocking going on, I am such a decend guy..
AMD Radeon R9 290
4096 MB / GDDR5
Windows 10 (64 bit)
12 GB RAM DDR3 - 2x 4GB; 2x 2GB
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz
ASRock H97 Pro4 Mainboard
Coolermasters G750M
So yes, 2 different RAMs. The 2GBs are from Kingston the 4GBs from Crucial Technology.
To be "sure" I switched them between the slots and used them together and single (meaning CT& Kingston together or only CT/ only Kingston). Made no difference.
I am pretty much running out of ideas of how to find out where the problem is. Any suggestions out there?
As one might guess from the titel, my pc crashes after playing between 10 & 20 minutes cities skyline. Sometimes also randomly (and after more than 2-4hrs) while gta online, but that only happend 2 times. But it still happend.
So there must be anything wrong with my system that little voice in my head told me and I startet to do all the regular stuff.
I updated my drivers - graphics, chipset & audio.
I ran memtest for about 2-3h and it didn't reveal any errors
I ran prime95 for about 7h and it also didn't reveal any errors.
I also bought a new psu about a year ago so I am pretty sure it is not about that, even though I back-checked it with the "psu calculator" of coolermasters - not sure how much that is worth, but after the results it gave me, it shouldn't be the problem.
My current specs - no overclocking going on, I am such a decend guy..
AMD Radeon R9 290
4096 MB / GDDR5
Windows 10 (64 bit)
12 GB RAM DDR3 - 2x 4GB; 2x 2GB
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz
ASRock H97 Pro4 Mainboard
Coolermasters G750M
So yes, 2 different RAMs. The 2GBs are from Kingston the 4GBs from Crucial Technology.
To be "sure" I switched them between the slots and used them together and single (meaning CT& Kingston together or only CT/ only Kingston). Made no difference.
I am pretty much running out of ideas of how to find out where the problem is. Any suggestions out there?
Short Version:
AMD Radeon R9 290 (Club 3D)
4096 MB / GDDR5
Windows 10 (64 bit)
12 GB RAM DDR3 - 2x 4GB; 2x 2GB
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz
ASRock H97 Pro4 Mainboard
Coolermasters G750M
Bought everything in spring 2015.
I tested the RAM, CPU (prime95) and nothing brought up any error.
I updated the drivers, which did not helped. I tried it with older drivers, which did not helped either.
Then I started to cap my fps, after that I found a thread suggesting to force constant voltage and finally found one suggesting to lower the Core & Memory Clock a little bit. Nothing of that stuff helped.
Finally I was able to borrow an older GPU yesterday (GTX 550Ti) and ran Cities quite smoothly for about 2hrs.
That led me to the suggestion that either there is something wrong with my GPU or my PSU is simply not giving enough power - which cannot be excluded as the GTX is not demanding as much as the R9 290.
However 750W/12V should be sufficient I think?
So I ran the 3DMark DirectX11 Benchmark today and logged my GPU state with GPU-Z.
My system rebooted in the third test I think? (the one in the jungle).
However the log shows that it crashed after the high demand/ stress scene, at least that is what I read out of it. I attached it anyhow.
The test starts about 13:47h.
That suggests that it is not the PSU right?
I just want to be sure as the higher power PSU is about as expensive as a comparable new card/ the same again. So it would be cool to know that it is surely the GPU and I don't have to buy both in the end.
Glad for any help.
However thanks a lot to all of you for the help!
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