- Mar 18, 2017
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Hi everyone,
Sorry for the long post, I figured the best course of action would be to get as much information out there as I could. So, it's story time, because this has persisted for so long.
Back in September, there was an incident involving liquid damage to my PC, and I replaced my GPU and RAM at that time. I started getting BSOD's, so replaced each part individually until no original components were left except for the CPU. At this point, I ran sfc/scannow.
The problem with the display began after I replaced the motherboard. These crashes are seemingly random - they'll happen while gaming, using MS Word or running LabSim in the browser for homework, or just sitting there doing nothing. The blue screens were less frequent after the sfc/scannow, but still there (with so many different stop codes). I troubleshooted for what felt like an eternity. I eventually broke down and, earlier this week, replaced both the GPU and MOBO.
Initially, the NVIDIA driver would fail. I ended up in NVIDIA chat support and they walked me through installing via Device Manager rather than using the installer. I didn't reboot my PC right away, but used it for another eight hours or so before bed crash free. The next morning (Wednesday) I turned on the computer and the crashes were back, along with blue screens. After messing around with the computer trying to find a solution online, I ran a clean install of Windows 10. When that didn't work, running sfc/scannow produced a result saying there were problems that it couldn't fix. I upgraded to the anniversary update and, while the blue screens seem to have vanished, so have the pop ups saying the driver crashed and recovered. Unfortunately, the display drivers are still an issue.
I've since tried underclocking the GPU, reinstalling the drivers, doing yet another clean install, switching my RAM to dual-channel (don't know why I thought this would work, and BIOS only detected one module when I did this), and swapped back to the previous MOBO and GPU at one point thinking maybe it was just one of them and not both. Nothing seems to fix the problem.
I'm at my wit's end, guys. At this point I'm thinking I'm better off building a new PC, but at the same time most of the components in this PC are new and I still can't figure out what's going on.
Specs:
CPU: AMD FX-8320 8-core
MOBO: Asus M5A78L-M Plus/USB3 (same as the one I replaced it with)
GPU: Gigabyte GT730
RAM: 2x4GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3-1600, single channel
PSU: EVGA 400W. That's all I remember, it was purchased about a year ago.
Sorry for the long post, I figured the best course of action would be to get as much information out there as I could. So, it's story time, because this has persisted for so long.
Back in September, there was an incident involving liquid damage to my PC, and I replaced my GPU and RAM at that time. I started getting BSOD's, so replaced each part individually until no original components were left except for the CPU. At this point, I ran sfc/scannow.
The problem with the display began after I replaced the motherboard. These crashes are seemingly random - they'll happen while gaming, using MS Word or running LabSim in the browser for homework, or just sitting there doing nothing. The blue screens were less frequent after the sfc/scannow, but still there (with so many different stop codes). I troubleshooted for what felt like an eternity. I eventually broke down and, earlier this week, replaced both the GPU and MOBO.
Initially, the NVIDIA driver would fail. I ended up in NVIDIA chat support and they walked me through installing via Device Manager rather than using the installer. I didn't reboot my PC right away, but used it for another eight hours or so before bed crash free. The next morning (Wednesday) I turned on the computer and the crashes were back, along with blue screens. After messing around with the computer trying to find a solution online, I ran a clean install of Windows 10. When that didn't work, running sfc/scannow produced a result saying there were problems that it couldn't fix. I upgraded to the anniversary update and, while the blue screens seem to have vanished, so have the pop ups saying the driver crashed and recovered. Unfortunately, the display drivers are still an issue.
I've since tried underclocking the GPU, reinstalling the drivers, doing yet another clean install, switching my RAM to dual-channel (don't know why I thought this would work, and BIOS only detected one module when I did this), and swapped back to the previous MOBO and GPU at one point thinking maybe it was just one of them and not both. Nothing seems to fix the problem.
I'm at my wit's end, guys. At this point I'm thinking I'm better off building a new PC, but at the same time most of the components in this PC are new and I still can't figure out what's going on.
Specs:
CPU: AMD FX-8320 8-core
MOBO: Asus M5A78L-M Plus/USB3 (same as the one I replaced it with)
GPU: Gigabyte GT730
RAM: 2x4GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3-1600, single channel
PSU: EVGA 400W. That's all I remember, it was purchased about a year ago.
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