Monitor no signal, could this be a psu problem?
Specs:
-Windows 10 home
-i7-6700k
-Asus Z170 Pro Gaming/Aura
-4X 4GB DDR4 RAM (compatible w/ motherboard)
-850W Corsair psu
Story
I built this PC for Christmas in 2016, there were no problems with it until about a few month ago when I got my first crash on Overwatch.
I didn’t think too much about it and just launched the game again, with no issues. As time went by the game crashed more and more often, from the first occasional crashes to one per gaming session to one every half an hour until I couldn’t launch the game without crashing. Along with windows blue screens w/ error code different every time.
I contacted Blizzard, the company who made overwatch, they told me that razer synapse was the issue and told me to uninstall it. I uninstalled all razer software and used the repair option for the game, the issue appeared to have went away.
(Also keep in mind that a few weeks later I was playing Overwatch, same settings, on a i3 HP all-in-one desktop with razer synapse. 3 hours a day for 5 days, not a single crash)
So I went on a camping trip and came back 2 days later, launched overwatch, and it returned to the state where crashes happen every hour or so. Blue screens everytime.
Then it happened.
Minutes after I start my pc, it would blue screen without me doing anything. I contacted Microsoft and they instructed me to update windows to the latest version/build. Then my pc could start, when it was “fixed” I decided to unoverclock my cpu, ever since my pc was built I had it overclocked at 13%. That day I set the clock speed back to its default, 4.0 GHz. Restarted the computer.
No signal to monitor
I tried resetting motherboard memory, testing ram sticks, shipped my motherboard to asus for repair(come back with “symptoms could not be replicated”) and now I’m here.
Could this be a psu problem? Should I test the psu next? And if it’s faulty, should I replace it with the same model or a different one? What should I do differently to make sure this doesn’t happen again?
Psu model - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OVCJKWC/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
My theory
Assuming it’s a psu issue, and that my psu is rapidly deteriorating. It explains why at first, crashes only happened when running cpu intensive tasks such as overwatch. Becoming more and more frequent until there wasn’t enough power to supply the entire pc, causing a crash, w/ random error codes. Uninstalling razer softwares frees up some power, but not much. Then to where I could start it, but the startup applications take too much power. Windows update with bug fixes? I dunno. Then where there wasn’t enough power to start the machine, but still enough to light up the motherboard and spin the fans.
Update June 17: Issue has been fully resolved, 8-pin atx power connector was disconnected and I did not plug it in after Asus returned it. Prior crashes was probably an unstable oc and the no signal was resolved by resetting the bios
Specs:
-Windows 10 home
-i7-6700k
-Asus Z170 Pro Gaming/Aura
-4X 4GB DDR4 RAM (compatible w/ motherboard)
-850W Corsair psu
Story
I built this PC for Christmas in 2016, there were no problems with it until about a few month ago when I got my first crash on Overwatch.
I didn’t think too much about it and just launched the game again, with no issues. As time went by the game crashed more and more often, from the first occasional crashes to one per gaming session to one every half an hour until I couldn’t launch the game without crashing. Along with windows blue screens w/ error code different every time.
I contacted Blizzard, the company who made overwatch, they told me that razer synapse was the issue and told me to uninstall it. I uninstalled all razer software and used the repair option for the game, the issue appeared to have went away.
(Also keep in mind that a few weeks later I was playing Overwatch, same settings, on a i3 HP all-in-one desktop with razer synapse. 3 hours a day for 5 days, not a single crash)
So I went on a camping trip and came back 2 days later, launched overwatch, and it returned to the state where crashes happen every hour or so. Blue screens everytime.
Then it happened.
Minutes after I start my pc, it would blue screen without me doing anything. I contacted Microsoft and they instructed me to update windows to the latest version/build. Then my pc could start, when it was “fixed” I decided to unoverclock my cpu, ever since my pc was built I had it overclocked at 13%. That day I set the clock speed back to its default, 4.0 GHz. Restarted the computer.
No signal to monitor
I tried resetting motherboard memory, testing ram sticks, shipped my motherboard to asus for repair(come back with “symptoms could not be replicated”) and now I’m here.
Could this be a psu problem? Should I test the psu next? And if it’s faulty, should I replace it with the same model or a different one? What should I do differently to make sure this doesn’t happen again?
Psu model - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OVCJKWC/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
My theory
Assuming it’s a psu issue, and that my psu is rapidly deteriorating. It explains why at first, crashes only happened when running cpu intensive tasks such as overwatch. Becoming more and more frequent until there wasn’t enough power to supply the entire pc, causing a crash, w/ random error codes. Uninstalling razer softwares frees up some power, but not much. Then to where I could start it, but the startup applications take too much power. Windows update with bug fixes? I dunno. Then where there wasn’t enough power to start the machine, but still enough to light up the motherboard and spin the fans.
Update June 17: Issue has been fully resolved, 8-pin atx power connector was disconnected and I did not plug it in after Asus returned it. Prior crashes was probably an unstable oc and the no signal was resolved by resetting the bios
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