Started out being random restarts once a week or so. After a few months it became once a day. Now its sometimes 3 times a day. The restarts happen more frequently when I have a game running and twitch stream or youtube video running on my other monitor at the same time, but has happened a few times even when I only had Chrome open on a non-video playing page.
With my previous GPU (770) when the restarts happened, both monitors would go black but I could still hear audio for about 5 sec before it restarted. It never showed a blue screen with my 770, but always does now since I recently switched in a new graphics card (980TI). It still goes to a black screen for 5 sec with audio working, but then shows the blue screen for about 3 sec before restarting. The blue screen shows NVLDDMKM.SYS
I followed guides on fixing that and it seemed to be back to about once per day, but was still happening. So I tried installing windows on my second hard drive and it lasted about 24 hours as well before it happened again.
System: Things tagged (NEW) have been added after the issues started so are not the cause if it is a hardware issue.
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium
Motherboard - ASUS P9X79 LE
RAM - DDR3 1866 G.Skill Ripjaws 16GB (2x8GB)
CPU - Core i7-4820k@3.70GHz
Liquid Cooler - Corsair H100i GTX
(NEW) GPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980TI
(NEW) PSU - EVGA SuperNova 850 G3
Hard Drive w/Windows - Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD
(NEW) Secondary Hard Drive - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD (2nd windows)
Primary Display - 4k TV @ 4k 60FPS HDMI to HDMI (with old 770 GPU I used DVI to HDMI 1440p 30FPS)
Secondary Display- 1080p 60FPS DVI to HDMI
I don't know much about the cables for connecting to displays so this could be part of the issue maybe?
I had overheating issues a few years back to the point it would force shutdown. I got a good airflow case and liquid cooler right away and my cpu temp never goes higher than the low 70s since. I'm wondering if the CPU could have been damaged and be having delayed issues from the overheating to nearly 100c back then even though it was issue free for many months after fixing the problem.
I keep my video drivers up to date and made sure to get caught up on all windows updates after the new windows installation on my second hard drive. Not even sure what else could need updating as I am not great with this stuff, but I am assuming it must be the hardware at this point?
I have "Corsair Link" installed for setting my liquid cooler fan speeds and it shows my RAM frequency as 667.0 MHz. not sure if that is normal, just pointing it out since that seems odd to me.
With my previous GPU (770) when the restarts happened, both monitors would go black but I could still hear audio for about 5 sec before it restarted. It never showed a blue screen with my 770, but always does now since I recently switched in a new graphics card (980TI). It still goes to a black screen for 5 sec with audio working, but then shows the blue screen for about 3 sec before restarting. The blue screen shows NVLDDMKM.SYS
I followed guides on fixing that and it seemed to be back to about once per day, but was still happening. So I tried installing windows on my second hard drive and it lasted about 24 hours as well before it happened again.
System: Things tagged (NEW) have been added after the issues started so are not the cause if it is a hardware issue.
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium
Motherboard - ASUS P9X79 LE
RAM - DDR3 1866 G.Skill Ripjaws 16GB (2x8GB)
CPU - Core i7-4820k@3.70GHz
Liquid Cooler - Corsair H100i GTX
(NEW) GPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980TI
(NEW) PSU - EVGA SuperNova 850 G3
Hard Drive w/Windows - Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD
(NEW) Secondary Hard Drive - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD (2nd windows)
Primary Display - 4k TV @ 4k 60FPS HDMI to HDMI (with old 770 GPU I used DVI to HDMI 1440p 30FPS)
Secondary Display- 1080p 60FPS DVI to HDMI
I don't know much about the cables for connecting to displays so this could be part of the issue maybe?
I had overheating issues a few years back to the point it would force shutdown. I got a good airflow case and liquid cooler right away and my cpu temp never goes higher than the low 70s since. I'm wondering if the CPU could have been damaged and be having delayed issues from the overheating to nearly 100c back then even though it was issue free for many months after fixing the problem.
I keep my video drivers up to date and made sure to get caught up on all windows updates after the new windows installation on my second hard drive. Not even sure what else could need updating as I am not great with this stuff, but I am assuming it must be the hardware at this point?
I have "Corsair Link" installed for setting my liquid cooler fan speeds and it shows my RAM frequency as 667.0 MHz. not sure if that is normal, just pointing it out since that seems odd to me.
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