- Feb 5, 2015
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I have gone over other forums and mine seems so specific I decided to create a new thread...
I'm either the most unlucky PC Builder or the worst because over my last 3 builds I always seem to have a part that acts defective.
I just built a new gaming/editing PC. All new parts except for water cooler for CPU, I carried it over from previous build. Now let me explain the problem.
When I first attempted to build the new PC I was unable to get it to post. It would power on, case fans would turn, RGB lights would begin and my GPU fans would begin to turn on as well. But there would be no video. My monitor would just show no signal message. I have 2 sticks of 8gb ram. So I thought, well lets just try it with a single stick. It worked. So I tried it with other stick to see if by chance it was just a bad RAM stick that was culprit....it boots and works again. So after calling the Motherboard manufacturer (who walked me through different tests and RAM arrangements I was able to get my system to turn on and boot properly to BIOS. After making sure all systems were default just for sake of troubleshooting and such I start windows and everything is fine.
While playing games both heavy AAA and light indie games I have noticed that my FPS will drop from 60 FPS (I have a 60mhz monitor so I cap it there) to 5-20FPS after any sort of menu or loading screen. Its never mid game and it always stays there until I restart the game. I have about every monitor you can think of installed on my PC...MSI Afterburner, CPU-Z, CPU Temp monitor. All are being watched while this plummet occurs and its not reaching any sort of worrisome Temp levels. Rarely will even a single core go above 70 Celsius at the most intensive game moments and even then its only for split second. In addition it will happen even when its running at standby temps like when I'm in menu or something. CPU load is also something I have looked at and very rarely is it hitting more than 30-50% usage.
So that's a consistent issue, next we have a much more recent issue which is my computer freezing and crashing at the mere sight of slight multitasking. I was trying to create a small poster using the free editing software called GIMP (which I have used on countless devices before) and when simply dragging an object in the program and running a YouTube video my system would freeze and a hard reset would need to be utilized.
Then comes my FINAL problem---hopefully. When I reset or restart my computer it will turn off then not post again and it'll take like 2-4 tries to get it to post again. I am having a HELL of a time with this thing. I like to think I know a decent amount about computers but It is driving me mad cause I cant test the components with any other system due to them being incompatible...
I also have one more interesting thing about my PC that may or may not make difference. I currently use 3 different drives. An HDD, a SSD, and an M.2. The SSD has a copy of windows 10 pro and the M.2 has a copy of windows 10 home. I boot off of the SSD. They are separate copies with each having different product key.
I need any help I can get...I spent many paychecks on this and I use it for work
System Specs:
CPU: i7-8700
GPU: EVGA 1080 SC
Motherboard: ASUS z370 E-Gaming
RAM: G.Skill DDR4 3200Mhz
PSU: EVGA 650 80+ Gold
Case: Cooler Master H500P
Memory: Western Digital 1TB HDD/Toshiba 125GB SSD/Samsung 960 EVO 250GB
Cooler: Corsair H60 (2013 Version)
I'm either the most unlucky PC Builder or the worst because over my last 3 builds I always seem to have a part that acts defective.
I just built a new gaming/editing PC. All new parts except for water cooler for CPU, I carried it over from previous build. Now let me explain the problem.
When I first attempted to build the new PC I was unable to get it to post. It would power on, case fans would turn, RGB lights would begin and my GPU fans would begin to turn on as well. But there would be no video. My monitor would just show no signal message. I have 2 sticks of 8gb ram. So I thought, well lets just try it with a single stick. It worked. So I tried it with other stick to see if by chance it was just a bad RAM stick that was culprit....it boots and works again. So after calling the Motherboard manufacturer (who walked me through different tests and RAM arrangements I was able to get my system to turn on and boot properly to BIOS. After making sure all systems were default just for sake of troubleshooting and such I start windows and everything is fine.
While playing games both heavy AAA and light indie games I have noticed that my FPS will drop from 60 FPS (I have a 60mhz monitor so I cap it there) to 5-20FPS after any sort of menu or loading screen. Its never mid game and it always stays there until I restart the game. I have about every monitor you can think of installed on my PC...MSI Afterburner, CPU-Z, CPU Temp monitor. All are being watched while this plummet occurs and its not reaching any sort of worrisome Temp levels. Rarely will even a single core go above 70 Celsius at the most intensive game moments and even then its only for split second. In addition it will happen even when its running at standby temps like when I'm in menu or something. CPU load is also something I have looked at and very rarely is it hitting more than 30-50% usage.
So that's a consistent issue, next we have a much more recent issue which is my computer freezing and crashing at the mere sight of slight multitasking. I was trying to create a small poster using the free editing software called GIMP (which I have used on countless devices before) and when simply dragging an object in the program and running a YouTube video my system would freeze and a hard reset would need to be utilized.
Then comes my FINAL problem---hopefully. When I reset or restart my computer it will turn off then not post again and it'll take like 2-4 tries to get it to post again. I am having a HELL of a time with this thing. I like to think I know a decent amount about computers but It is driving me mad cause I cant test the components with any other system due to them being incompatible...
I also have one more interesting thing about my PC that may or may not make difference. I currently use 3 different drives. An HDD, a SSD, and an M.2. The SSD has a copy of windows 10 pro and the M.2 has a copy of windows 10 home. I boot off of the SSD. They are separate copies with each having different product key.
I need any help I can get...I spent many paychecks on this and I use it for work
System Specs:
CPU: i7-8700
GPU: EVGA 1080 SC
Motherboard: ASUS z370 E-Gaming
RAM: G.Skill DDR4 3200Mhz
PSU: EVGA 650 80+ Gold
Case: Cooler Master H500P
Memory: Western Digital 1TB HDD/Toshiba 125GB SSD/Samsung 960 EVO 250GB
Cooler: Corsair H60 (2013 Version)
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