- Sep 4, 2016
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Hi everyone!
So my RX 480 arrived 2 days ago, i had installed Windows 10 a week ago so i just installed the latest Beta drivers and played H1Z1: King of the Kill (which is an horribly optimized game with serious memory leak issues) for a couple of hours.
It ran fine for the most part but then the screen went black, i could still hear the game sounds for a couple of seconds then nothing. I had to force restart the PC and immediately upon restarting the GPU fans would spin at 100% for 4 seconds then back to normal. In 8 hours it happened 3 times, 2 times in a 15 minutes time span and one time a couple of hours later.
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These are my specs:
Im using an old 23 inches monitor that only DVI-I and VGA inputs, i couldnt find a DVI-D to DVI-D cable so i connected it to the GPU using an HDMI to DVI-D cable. Could that be an issue?
After the first 3 crashes i removed the drivers using DDU and installed the latest stable ones. It only crashed once in 8 hours but still, it worries me.
Windows shows 4 critical events in Event Log, one for each crash. All of them are labeled 'Kernel-Power 41'. No idea what that is but i read that its not necessarily a power related issue.
Temps are fine, at least GPU and CPU. I ran Userbenchmark's benchmark 5 times, one time it said that the SSD was underperforming. 2 times that the RAM was underperforming, and it was always the weakest point of my build, performing below the average in every benchmark.
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How can i pinpoint the issue?
How can i be sure that theres nothing wrong with the GPU?
Could it be because of the HDMI to DVI-D cable connected to my monitor's DVI-I input?
Could it be the PSU overheating?
Could it be lack of RAM?
I noticed that the SSD isnt performing as it used to a couple of months ago, could it be it?
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The first thing im going to do is play another game for several hours to see if the problem is exclusive of King of the Kill. Maybe move the game to the HDD and see what happens? Im kinda lost here as to how to detect whats wrong, especially given that if i use something like MSI Afterburner to monitor my components the data gets lost when the PC crashes.
Thanks in advance and i apologize for the wall of text.
So my RX 480 arrived 2 days ago, i had installed Windows 10 a week ago so i just installed the latest Beta drivers and played H1Z1: King of the Kill (which is an horribly optimized game with serious memory leak issues) for a couple of hours.
It ran fine for the most part but then the screen went black, i could still hear the game sounds for a couple of seconds then nothing. I had to force restart the PC and immediately upon restarting the GPU fans would spin at 100% for 4 seconds then back to normal. In 8 hours it happened 3 times, 2 times in a 15 minutes time span and one time a couple of hours later.
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These are my specs:
Intel Core I5 6500 3.2 Ghz
MSI H110M PRO-VH
8 GB DDR4 2400 Mhz Kingston HyperX Fury
Sapphire RX 480 8 GB Nitro OC
Sandisk Ultra II 240 GB SSD (Windows 10 Pro 64-bit and games installed here)
WD Caviar Blue 1 TB 7200RPM HDD
NZXT Hale82 V2 550w Bronze PSU
Deepcool Dukase V2 Case
Im using an old 23 inches monitor that only DVI-I and VGA inputs, i couldnt find a DVI-D to DVI-D cable so i connected it to the GPU using an HDMI to DVI-D cable. Could that be an issue?
After the first 3 crashes i removed the drivers using DDU and installed the latest stable ones. It only crashed once in 8 hours but still, it worries me.
Windows shows 4 critical events in Event Log, one for each crash. All of them are labeled 'Kernel-Power 41'. No idea what that is but i read that its not necessarily a power related issue.
Temps are fine, at least GPU and CPU. I ran Userbenchmark's benchmark 5 times, one time it said that the SSD was underperforming. 2 times that the RAM was underperforming, and it was always the weakest point of my build, performing below the average in every benchmark.
________________________________________
How can i pinpoint the issue?
How can i be sure that theres nothing wrong with the GPU?
Could it be because of the HDMI to DVI-D cable connected to my monitor's DVI-I input?
Could it be the PSU overheating?
Could it be lack of RAM?
I noticed that the SSD isnt performing as it used to a couple of months ago, could it be it?
________________________________________
The first thing im going to do is play another game for several hours to see if the problem is exclusive of King of the Kill. Maybe move the game to the HDD and see what happens? Im kinda lost here as to how to detect whats wrong, especially given that if i use something like MSI Afterburner to monitor my components the data gets lost when the PC crashes.
Thanks in advance and i apologize for the wall of text.
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