I've been having this issue for months where my PC randomly crashes when playing games or watching videos. The PC suddenly crashes, showing vertical striped screen on the monitor, the sound continues to play for 1 or 2 seconds, then it stops and everything becomes unresponsive. I have to restart the machine to make it work again. Oddly enough, when I turn it off, sometimes my PC will try to turn itself on, only to fail to post to BIOS and then it turns itself on again. This can repeat a few times until it can finally boot to Windows. I've tried many things to pinpoint the source of the problem, to no avail. I even upgraded my OS from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
Some days ago, I moved my VGA card to the lower PCI-E slot and it seemed to work fine for several days. But then the problem happens again for unknown reasons. I thought it might have something to do with windows updates so I uninstalled some of them and stopped windows from automatically updating. But it seems like the problem occurs when the VGA card is under light or heavy load.
Here's my system specs, copied from the AMD software:
Graphics Card Manufacturer - Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (ASUS R9 280X DirectCU II TOP 3GB)
Device ID - 6798
Vendor ID - 1002
SubSystem ID - 3006
SubSystem Vendor ID - 1043
Revision ID - 00
Bus Type - PCI Express 3.0
Current Bus Settings - PCI Express 2.0 x4
BIOS Version - 015.041.000.000
BIOS Part Number - 113-AD47800-101
BIOS Date - 2013/11/19 03:20
Memory Size - 3072 MB
Memory Type - GDDR5
Memory Clock - 1600 MHz
Core Clock - 1070 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth - 307 GByte/s
2D Driver File Path - /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/Class/{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}/0001
Motherboard - MSI Z87-G43
PSU - Corsair CX750M (Just recently bought, so it doesn't seem like this is the culprit)
Windows Version - Windows 10 (64 bit)
System Memory - 12 GB (1 Corsair 8GB and 1 4GB stick which I can't remember the brand; I already tried swapping them in several combinations but no positive result)
CPU Type - Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz
Radeon Settings Version - 2016.0916.1515.27418
Driver Packaging Version - 16.40.2311-160916a-307259E
Provider - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
2D Driver Version - 8.1.1.1571
Direct3D® Version - 9.14.10.01221
OpenGL® Version - 6.14.10.14008
OpenCL™ Version - 6.14.10.14008
AMD Mantle Version - 9.1.10.0146
AMD Mantle API Version - 98310
AMD Audio Driver Version - 10.0.1.1
Vulkan™ Driver Version - 1.3.0
Vulkan™ API Version - 1.0.21
Please tell me what to do to solve this. Is it my hardware (VGA card, motherboard) or is it my drivers, or maybe my OS? I read a lot of similar articles on the internet and all of them have one thing in common: they all have Radeon cards. I don't want to replace my card since I'm not even sure yet about what's causing the problem.
Thanks in advance.
Some days ago, I moved my VGA card to the lower PCI-E slot and it seemed to work fine for several days. But then the problem happens again for unknown reasons. I thought it might have something to do with windows updates so I uninstalled some of them and stopped windows from automatically updating. But it seems like the problem occurs when the VGA card is under light or heavy load.
Here's my system specs, copied from the AMD software:
Graphics Card Manufacturer - Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (ASUS R9 280X DirectCU II TOP 3GB)
Device ID - 6798
Vendor ID - 1002
SubSystem ID - 3006
SubSystem Vendor ID - 1043
Revision ID - 00
Bus Type - PCI Express 3.0
Current Bus Settings - PCI Express 2.0 x4
BIOS Version - 015.041.000.000
BIOS Part Number - 113-AD47800-101
BIOS Date - 2013/11/19 03:20
Memory Size - 3072 MB
Memory Type - GDDR5
Memory Clock - 1600 MHz
Core Clock - 1070 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth - 307 GByte/s
2D Driver File Path - /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/Class/{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}/0001
Motherboard - MSI Z87-G43
PSU - Corsair CX750M (Just recently bought, so it doesn't seem like this is the culprit)
Windows Version - Windows 10 (64 bit)
System Memory - 12 GB (1 Corsair 8GB and 1 4GB stick which I can't remember the brand; I already tried swapping them in several combinations but no positive result)
CPU Type - Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz
Radeon Settings Version - 2016.0916.1515.27418
Driver Packaging Version - 16.40.2311-160916a-307259E
Provider - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
2D Driver Version - 8.1.1.1571
Direct3D® Version - 9.14.10.01221
OpenGL® Version - 6.14.10.14008
OpenCL™ Version - 6.14.10.14008
AMD Mantle Version - 9.1.10.0146
AMD Mantle API Version - 98310
AMD Audio Driver Version - 10.0.1.1
Vulkan™ Driver Version - 1.3.0
Vulkan™ API Version - 1.0.21
Please tell me what to do to solve this. Is it my hardware (VGA card, motherboard) or is it my drivers, or maybe my OS? I read a lot of similar articles on the internet and all of them have one thing in common: they all have Radeon cards. I don't want to replace my card since I'm not even sure yet about what's causing the problem.
Thanks in advance.
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