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Howdy folks that help! I'm over 50 so bear with me. Just started gaming with skyrim and assassins creed. I had a 1 gig video card that worked but would freeze or restart every once in a while. My son gave me a GeForce 970 for my B-day and helped install it. I played skyrim, skyrim s.e. and had no problems until yesterday when it started rebooting at the point where you hit play and start the game. Now it just keeps the skyrim logo up and plays the intro music without starting the game. Assassins Creed liberation goes a little further and actually gets in the game but reboots when you move the player. I have reloaded the GeForce/Nvidia drivers to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Is there a log file that would explain the failure. My system is as follows...

Windows 10
Corsair HX 750
Intel core i5-3570K @ 3.4 GHz 3.80 GHz
RAM 16GB
64 bit OS
disk drives...
PNY CS1311 240GB SSD
ST1000MD005 HD 103SJ
WDC WD20EZRX00D8PB0

Thanks for any help!!!!!
 
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If its crashing with high CPU and GPU usage the only other possible problem would be the motherboard. If you dont have the latest motherboard bios you could give it a spin. Thats kind of a long shot tho as is a reset of the bios. Now if your son has a psu that ran the 970 then swap out PSU's to test. If the problem goes away then you know its the PSU.
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Thanks for the reply Elbert...Just ran it...
HD Tune Pro: ST1000DM005 HD103SJ Benchmark

Test capacity: full

Read transfer rate
Transfer Rate Minimum : 5.8 MB/s
Transfer Rate Maximum : 147.5 MB/s
Transfer Rate Average : 104.8 MB/s
Access Time : 13.8 ms
Burst Rate : 181.1 MB/s
CPU Usage : 6.8%
 
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Thanks for the reply Elbert...Just ran it...
HD Tune Pro: ST1000DM005 HD103SJ Benchmark

Test capacity: full

Read transfer rate
Transfer Rate Minimum : 5.8 MB/s
Transfer Rate Maximum : 147.5 MB/s
Transfer Rate Average : 104.8 MB/s
Access Time : 13.8 ms
Burst Rate : 181.1 MB/s
CPU Usage : 6.8%

Running error scan now.
 
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Well that was a shot in the dark guess we have to check everything. Try memtest86 to test your RAM first. Use prime95 to test your cpu stablity. lastly use furmark to test your video card. Watch your temps on the last 2 with speedfan.

http://www.memtest86.com/
http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=15504
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

If furmark crashes while not overclocking then either your video card is bad or your PSU.
 
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deadking

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ran heaven 4.0 and furmark...neither ran more than a sec before crashing...pretty sure it's the PSU just thought it was plenty good and hate to think it was bad and have to replace.
Thanks for the help Elbert...any other ideas?
 
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I'm thing its your PSU also given both the cpu and gpu testing seperatly crashed. Only test to make 100% sure is swap the PSU out to see if the problem goes with the PSU. Any older working system laying around? If not guess you just have try a new one and see. I like this Antec.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Power Supply: Antec TruePower Classic 750W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $79.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-17 09:07 EST-0500
 
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ELBERT>>>I haven't given up yet...I was exploring the Nvidia control panel and found an error under "View HDCP Status". It has an alert that says "A repeater is connected to your system". I do have it running through my Pioneer receiver as this is an HTPC setup. Tried going direct to TV but the error is still there. Could this be my problem?
 
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If its crashing with high CPU and GPU usage the only other possible problem would be the motherboard. If you dont have the latest motherboard bios you could give it a spin. Thats kind of a long shot tho as is a reset of the bios. Now if your son has a psu that ran the 970 then swap out PSU's to test. If the problem goes away then you know its the PSU.
 
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Thanks for all the help...I will continue toward the PSU. Resetting the bios was done before posting the problem when the new 970 was installed Let all know when I play again!
 
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