So about 2 months ago I got a ZOTAC Amp! GTX 1070 and it was fantastic (for a while). In the past few weeks I had experienced occasional unexpected restarts when playing under max load. Then, one day I start up a game and within a minute POOF, the video freezes (the sound continues playing) and the machine becomes unresponsive.
After rebooting, I get past the mobo bios logo screen and then BLAM, the machine hangs and there's a half-inch thick white horizontal band about 2/3 of the way up the screen, with a series of colored dots just above it. To me it looks like video card error artifacting.
I try the card in the other PCIE slots, switching the default slot each time, but no difference. So, I run my machine with onboard graphics for a few days while I try to troubleshoot the problem. After having no luck, I try the card in the original PCIE slot 1, and suddenly it's working again.
I'm just wondering if anyone has any clue whether this is truly a flaky GPU, or maybe a PSU issue (the random restarts made me suspicious), or perhaps indicative of something else? I've never had any problems with heat in my system so I ruled that out.
Specs:
- Windows 10 Home x64
- Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI-CF mobo
- ZOTAC Amp! Geforce GTX 1070
- Intel i5-6600k 3.5ghz
- 16gb RAM (g.skill ripjaws PC3000)
- Samsung 850 EVO 500gb SSD
- WD Blue 1tb 7200RPM HDD
- Corsair RM650x 650w PSU
Thanks in advance for any input!
After rebooting, I get past the mobo bios logo screen and then BLAM, the machine hangs and there's a half-inch thick white horizontal band about 2/3 of the way up the screen, with a series of colored dots just above it. To me it looks like video card error artifacting.
I try the card in the other PCIE slots, switching the default slot each time, but no difference. So, I run my machine with onboard graphics for a few days while I try to troubleshoot the problem. After having no luck, I try the card in the original PCIE slot 1, and suddenly it's working again.
I'm just wondering if anyone has any clue whether this is truly a flaky GPU, or maybe a PSU issue (the random restarts made me suspicious), or perhaps indicative of something else? I've never had any problems with heat in my system so I ruled that out.
Specs:
- Windows 10 Home x64
- Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI-CF mobo
- ZOTAC Amp! Geforce GTX 1070
- Intel i5-6600k 3.5ghz
- 16gb RAM (g.skill ripjaws PC3000)
- Samsung 850 EVO 500gb SSD
- WD Blue 1tb 7200RPM HDD
- Corsair RM650x 650w PSU
Thanks in advance for any input!
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