Hey so I have probably huge PC problems - im 99% sure its GPU
4 months ago, I had all the problems below - i thought it was caused by my VGA to DVI cable (i have screen with VGA only). So I bought a new one - VGA to HDMI - and everything worked properly for over 5 months. After those 5 months I moved (like 600km) and not long after, all the problems started happening again. I tried some stuff, cleaning PC, moving GPU to different slot etc. - nothing helped unless... I made my pc lie instead of standing. It lies on Motherboard side, so everything is kept in its place by gravity (i thought something might be moving?). Again problems stopped, until a few days ago - everything started again, and even harder than before...
All the problems I had:
- game crashes
- gpu disconnecting for a few seconds
- freezes
- little artifacts ("lag waves" looking like when u have VSync off in game, colorful pixels / lines)
- huge artifacts with freeze - screen changing to black / white (sometimes sound was like it freezed sometimes it didnt get into that freeze loop), green screen with dark stripes, orange with brown stripes (always vertical) and stuff like that. Sometimes I had to restart PC, once it got to a BSOD
"Thread Stuck in Device Driver"
I tried:
- Switching to integrated GPU - everything works fine, even when using my VGA to HDMI cable.
- Checking Load and Temperature (with Open Hardware Monitor) - temperature from 45C - idle?, 55-60C - medium load, under 75C - heavy load. Also Load never got to 100%, ~90% was probably highest and it stays under 60% under medium load. (other components Temperatures were fine too)
- Reinstalling the whole windows - nothing changed (Formatted C drive only)
- Reinstalling drivers - uninstalled device in Device Manager with removing drives, than installed the newest ones
- Checking for shorts - didn't find any
- Removing RAM, GPU, puting GPU in different slot
- Tried underclocking GPU with MSI Afterburner - no effect
My setup (its 2 years old):
CPU: i5 4460 @3.2ghz
GPU: 3GB Gigabyte Radeon R9 280x
Mobo: Gigabyte B85M-D3H
HDD: 1TB (WD Blue??)
600W power thingy
Additional info:
- Never overclocked GPU or CPU
- Never vacuumed my PC (cleaned it with air, and it's pretty clean)
- Whoever constructed the PC forgot to "pin"? the CPU radiator - had to change thermal paste on it
- I have no PC to move my GPU to and see if it works so I have no idea if it could be both slots or something? I may get one at mondey but before then, is there anything else I can do?
Right now I have just no idea what's going on. Is my GPU for some reason broken? I only used it for 2 years, most of the time idle / under low - medium load. Is there something else that could cause it? Can I do anything about it? Thanks in advance!
4 months ago, I had all the problems below - i thought it was caused by my VGA to DVI cable (i have screen with VGA only). So I bought a new one - VGA to HDMI - and everything worked properly for over 5 months. After those 5 months I moved (like 600km) and not long after, all the problems started happening again. I tried some stuff, cleaning PC, moving GPU to different slot etc. - nothing helped unless... I made my pc lie instead of standing. It lies on Motherboard side, so everything is kept in its place by gravity (i thought something might be moving?). Again problems stopped, until a few days ago - everything started again, and even harder than before...
All the problems I had:
- game crashes
- gpu disconnecting for a few seconds
- freezes
- little artifacts ("lag waves" looking like when u have VSync off in game, colorful pixels / lines)
- huge artifacts with freeze - screen changing to black / white (sometimes sound was like it freezed sometimes it didnt get into that freeze loop), green screen with dark stripes, orange with brown stripes (always vertical) and stuff like that. Sometimes I had to restart PC, once it got to a BSOD
"Thread Stuck in Device Driver"
I tried:
- Switching to integrated GPU - everything works fine, even when using my VGA to HDMI cable.
- Checking Load and Temperature (with Open Hardware Monitor) - temperature from 45C - idle?, 55-60C - medium load, under 75C - heavy load. Also Load never got to 100%, ~90% was probably highest and it stays under 60% under medium load. (other components Temperatures were fine too)
- Reinstalling the whole windows - nothing changed (Formatted C drive only)
- Reinstalling drivers - uninstalled device in Device Manager with removing drives, than installed the newest ones
- Checking for shorts - didn't find any
- Removing RAM, GPU, puting GPU in different slot
- Tried underclocking GPU with MSI Afterburner - no effect
My setup (its 2 years old):
CPU: i5 4460 @3.2ghz
GPU: 3GB Gigabyte Radeon R9 280x
Mobo: Gigabyte B85M-D3H
HDD: 1TB (WD Blue??)
600W power thingy
Additional info:
- Never overclocked GPU or CPU
- Never vacuumed my PC (cleaned it with air, and it's pretty clean)
- Whoever constructed the PC forgot to "pin"? the CPU radiator - had to change thermal paste on it
- I have no PC to move my GPU to and see if it works so I have no idea if it could be both slots or something? I may get one at mondey but before then, is there anything else I can do?
Right now I have just no idea what's going on. Is my GPU for some reason broken? I only used it for 2 years, most of the time idle / under low - medium load. Is there something else that could cause it? Can I do anything about it? Thanks in advance!
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