Yo! I've read a lot of posts so far looking into the issue I've been having. So far, I haven't found anything that hits it right on. Help?!
Build:
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB DDR3-1600
Intel Core i7-4790 3.6 GHz 1150
ASUS Z97-AR LGA 1150 Intel ATX Motherboard
Cooler Master Hyper T2 Compact CPU Cooler
Nvidia Geforce GTX 660
512 gb crucial mx100 ssd
Corsair rm650 psu
Built this just a little over one year ago. First PC build coming from laptops, so it's been a dream.
Everything in it was bought new (some reburb/clearance from microcenter) except for the gpu, which was a donation from a friend. (I know 16gb of ram was probably overkill).
I've played a variety of games, from WoW and Overwatch to Far Cry 3 & 4, The Witcher 3, etc. Everything has been great until a few days ago. Part of my initial confusion with this was because it only started after rearranging the deskspace and transporting the rig from a friend's house. Powered the machine up again and noticed my dvi to hdmi cable was maybe damaged a bit and display signal wasn't going through. So, bought a new cable. Everything seemed fine at first, but then after being in game, started getting these green flickering pixel lines across the screen. Tried ignoring at first, but it got worse and worse in minutes until the whole screen would flash green pixels, which seemed attached to the character models in game even. Then the display would go black, still having game sound and ability to use voice chat. If I'm able, I can exit game and it'll stabilize again. Nothing seems to be overheating. GPU maxes between 75 and 80, cpu doesn't go over 50 and is usually lower.
I didn't pay much attention to other sensors in gpu-z before, so I can't really say what looks normal except that previously, my temp would never go over 60 or so. And it seemed like a lot of the gpu clocks and load graphs were very high (load and power consumption bump around 100% a lot), but again, I hadn't really checked them closely before.
Regardless, I figured my gpu must be dying, so I got a Geforce gtx 950.
It seemed like this helped. GPU load seemed a bit lower, so I thought I was out of the woods, and I played for an hour or so in different games without issue....until it happened again. I quickly shut it down right away, afraid something was happening that could fry the new card.
Since then, I've reinstalled the old card and it's been a toss-up for when I get issues, and I feel like I notice slight screen tearing and chunkier graphics that I didn't use to notice, but maybe I'm just paying closer attention. The other night, I played various games off and on for a couple hours, and then tried raiding in WoW and had it happen again after another 30 minutes or so.
I've also been doing a lot of googling and reading forums for people talking about similar issues.
I've checked cables, the cards have been installed and reinstalled, the 12v, 5v, & 3.3v seem almost perfect, temps seem fine (though, again, higher than I was used to). Video drivers have been uninstalled and updated a number of times. I've run virus checks and checked startup programs as much as I know how.
I still feel like the coincidence of moving the pc around a bit, damaging a video cable, and also having hardware fail at the same time is too unlikely, but I can't see how the monitor could be the problem. As I said, I also got a brand new hdmi to dvi cable, and even if I should look at them, I don't see how those could start failing only when the gpu is under load for a while.
As far as I can tell, my next step is just to start buying replacement parts and swapping things out until I find a culprit, but I'd really rather not do that. I don't overclock (at least I've never actively picked an option or altered settings in an effort to overclock).
I took video on my phone of the most recent instance of this, with a look at gpu-z immediately after exiting:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6TCI93PSa0dbjB5N25WMkJjX0U
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6TCI93PSa0dZmZlV3cxbkpWQ1U
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6TCI93PSa0dRHE5eENUc0J6eWs
Anyone have any ideas? I really hope it's something stupid so I can have a laugh.
Build:
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB DDR3-1600
Intel Core i7-4790 3.6 GHz 1150
ASUS Z97-AR LGA 1150 Intel ATX Motherboard
Cooler Master Hyper T2 Compact CPU Cooler
Nvidia Geforce GTX 660
512 gb crucial mx100 ssd
Corsair rm650 psu
Built this just a little over one year ago. First PC build coming from laptops, so it's been a dream.
Everything in it was bought new (some reburb/clearance from microcenter) except for the gpu, which was a donation from a friend. (I know 16gb of ram was probably overkill).
I've played a variety of games, from WoW and Overwatch to Far Cry 3 & 4, The Witcher 3, etc. Everything has been great until a few days ago. Part of my initial confusion with this was because it only started after rearranging the deskspace and transporting the rig from a friend's house. Powered the machine up again and noticed my dvi to hdmi cable was maybe damaged a bit and display signal wasn't going through. So, bought a new cable. Everything seemed fine at first, but then after being in game, started getting these green flickering pixel lines across the screen. Tried ignoring at first, but it got worse and worse in minutes until the whole screen would flash green pixels, which seemed attached to the character models in game even. Then the display would go black, still having game sound and ability to use voice chat. If I'm able, I can exit game and it'll stabilize again. Nothing seems to be overheating. GPU maxes between 75 and 80, cpu doesn't go over 50 and is usually lower.
I didn't pay much attention to other sensors in gpu-z before, so I can't really say what looks normal except that previously, my temp would never go over 60 or so. And it seemed like a lot of the gpu clocks and load graphs were very high (load and power consumption bump around 100% a lot), but again, I hadn't really checked them closely before.
Regardless, I figured my gpu must be dying, so I got a Geforce gtx 950.
It seemed like this helped. GPU load seemed a bit lower, so I thought I was out of the woods, and I played for an hour or so in different games without issue....until it happened again. I quickly shut it down right away, afraid something was happening that could fry the new card.
Since then, I've reinstalled the old card and it's been a toss-up for when I get issues, and I feel like I notice slight screen tearing and chunkier graphics that I didn't use to notice, but maybe I'm just paying closer attention. The other night, I played various games off and on for a couple hours, and then tried raiding in WoW and had it happen again after another 30 minutes or so.
I've also been doing a lot of googling and reading forums for people talking about similar issues.
I've checked cables, the cards have been installed and reinstalled, the 12v, 5v, & 3.3v seem almost perfect, temps seem fine (though, again, higher than I was used to). Video drivers have been uninstalled and updated a number of times. I've run virus checks and checked startup programs as much as I know how.
I still feel like the coincidence of moving the pc around a bit, damaging a video cable, and also having hardware fail at the same time is too unlikely, but I can't see how the monitor could be the problem. As I said, I also got a brand new hdmi to dvi cable, and even if I should look at them, I don't see how those could start failing only when the gpu is under load for a while.
As far as I can tell, my next step is just to start buying replacement parts and swapping things out until I find a culprit, but I'd really rather not do that. I don't overclock (at least I've never actively picked an option or altered settings in an effort to overclock).
I took video on my phone of the most recent instance of this, with a look at gpu-z immediately after exiting:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6TCI93PSa0dbjB5N25WMkJjX0U
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6TCI93PSa0dZmZlV3cxbkpWQ1U
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6TCI93PSa0dRHE5eENUc0J6eWs
Anyone have any ideas? I really hope it's something stupid so I can have a laugh.
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