- Jul 18, 2016
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Hello everyone.
My computer has been crashing under stress/load for almost a month now.
It started about 1 1/2 weeks after playing JC3. There was no issues with the computer before, or after its installation, and seemingly came out of nowhere. No updates or programs downloaded either.
I would be playing the game, and the computer would randomly crash, always to a solid color screen, sometimes black, blue, green, light blue, white, and sometimes you could still hear audio from the game still playing. Sometimes i would have to hard reset the computer, sometimes it would restart on its own.
Then it started happening with youtube videos, first 4k videos, then even 720p mp3 videos.
I tried system restore points from prior to the issue's first occurence, that didn't work. I tried uninstalling geforce and nvidia drivers and reinstalling, no good. I switched my second gpu to the first pci slot and disabled sli, only running the one gpu that was originally in the 2nd pci slot, and that worked, for a time.
I took the first gpu into the computer store I got it from, as all my parts are still under warranty. They took it behind the counter and did stress tests, and found it to be running normally. So I put the gpu into the 2nd pci slot, uninstalled and reinstalled geforce and gpu drivers and reactivated sli.
This worked for about a week, and then the problem started happening again after I dl'd AC3.
I took the whole pc in this time and had them check it out again. They had the same issues of stress causing a shutdown, but when they tested the gpu's with a different windows 10 on a different system they operated normally.
So I just picked it up today, tried using a system restore point from december when I had freshly installed windows 10 on my boot drive, and it gave me the blue screen of death.
After this, it gave me the option of reinstalling windows 10, which was my plan anyways if the syt restore didn't work.
I reinstalled windows from scratch, and the problem STILL persists.
Is there a phantom in my cpu? A gremlin in my motherboard? What's my next step in troubleshooting, if you folks don't already know what the issue might be?
Thank you for your time
My computer has been crashing under stress/load for almost a month now.
It started about 1 1/2 weeks after playing JC3. There was no issues with the computer before, or after its installation, and seemingly came out of nowhere. No updates or programs downloaded either.
I would be playing the game, and the computer would randomly crash, always to a solid color screen, sometimes black, blue, green, light blue, white, and sometimes you could still hear audio from the game still playing. Sometimes i would have to hard reset the computer, sometimes it would restart on its own.
Then it started happening with youtube videos, first 4k videos, then even 720p mp3 videos.
I tried system restore points from prior to the issue's first occurence, that didn't work. I tried uninstalling geforce and nvidia drivers and reinstalling, no good. I switched my second gpu to the first pci slot and disabled sli, only running the one gpu that was originally in the 2nd pci slot, and that worked, for a time.
I took the first gpu into the computer store I got it from, as all my parts are still under warranty. They took it behind the counter and did stress tests, and found it to be running normally. So I put the gpu into the 2nd pci slot, uninstalled and reinstalled geforce and gpu drivers and reactivated sli.
This worked for about a week, and then the problem started happening again after I dl'd AC3.
I took the whole pc in this time and had them check it out again. They had the same issues of stress causing a shutdown, but when they tested the gpu's with a different windows 10 on a different system they operated normally.
So I just picked it up today, tried using a system restore point from december when I had freshly installed windows 10 on my boot drive, and it gave me the blue screen of death.
After this, it gave me the option of reinstalling windows 10, which was my plan anyways if the syt restore didn't work.
I reinstalled windows from scratch, and the problem STILL persists.
Is there a phantom in my cpu? A gremlin in my motherboard? What's my next step in troubleshooting, if you folks don't already know what the issue might be?
Thank you for your time
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