- Feb 28, 2015
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Issue: When I run FurMark, load into a DotA 2 map, or play other demanding games like total war, as soon as i exit the menu screen both of my screens will go black and detect no input. In some circumstances I will be able to hear and interact with the game / discord etc. In others I will have an immediate restart. There are stages of the issue.
1. It will crash infrequently, maybe once / day
2. It will crash regularly, once an hour, maybe 40 minutes into playing a game
3. It will crash as soon as i load into a game (past the menu).
I fixed it once by unplugging everything, cleaning everything, re-applying thermal paste to my 2 year old gpu, cleaning out my psu. My CPU and motherboard are a month old so I didn't re-apply the month old thermal paste. This only started a few weeks after upgrading my CPU and MB. I underclocked my memory and my gpu and reduced the power cap going to the gpu and it worked for a couple of weeks until the cycle repeated again.
My temps are ok, no higher than 40 on my CPU and my GPU goes from 36 --> dead so it's hard to measure, but when it did work the temps were fine, under 60.
I am completely stumped. I have reinstalled all drivers and done anything I could think of. Please help.
Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600x
GPU: GTX 970
RAM: 8GB 1866 Mhz
STORAGE: samsung 850 SSD, 1TB WD
Motherboard: MSI B350-M
Case: Zalman z11
PSU: Corsair CX500W
1. It will crash infrequently, maybe once / day
2. It will crash regularly, once an hour, maybe 40 minutes into playing a game
3. It will crash as soon as i load into a game (past the menu).
I fixed it once by unplugging everything, cleaning everything, re-applying thermal paste to my 2 year old gpu, cleaning out my psu. My CPU and motherboard are a month old so I didn't re-apply the month old thermal paste. This only started a few weeks after upgrading my CPU and MB. I underclocked my memory and my gpu and reduced the power cap going to the gpu and it worked for a couple of weeks until the cycle repeated again.
My temps are ok, no higher than 40 on my CPU and my GPU goes from 36 --> dead so it's hard to measure, but when it did work the temps were fine, under 60.
I am completely stumped. I have reinstalled all drivers and done anything I could think of. Please help.
Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600x
GPU: GTX 970
RAM: 8GB 1866 Mhz
STORAGE: samsung 850 SSD, 1TB WD
Motherboard: MSI B350-M
Case: Zalman z11
PSU: Corsair CX500W
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