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Started by zaptrem | | 11 answers
Computer dies when gaming
Hello again, everyone. I really hope you guys can help me this time, as I can no longer afford to replace any more hardware. My computer functions fine, but the screen goes black within a few minutes of launching any game! The audio continues for a bit, then that goes out as well. I can only fix it by hard restarting. Nothing that I know of is over heating. I also tried running both furmark and Prime95 separately, and together, and it did not crash. I also tried changing my GPU driver to the beta driver.
Specs:
Motherboard: Asus z97-a
Ram: 32gb Ripjaws
GPU: Dual Sapphire HD 7870 Ghz edition OC (tried underclocking 50mhz)
PSU: 850w
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June 13, 2014 1:50:35 PM

Can anyone help? I have a LAN party to go to on Sunday and I don't know what Ill do without this!
June 10, 2014 3:09:58 PM

@dkulprit I bought a new PSU, 1000 watt evga. It is still crashing! I also tried reinstalling windows.
June 5, 2014 11:09:51 AM

dkulprit said:
Well it could be that a single card is failing. To really test out if that is the case you would need to pull 1 card out. Run tests if that card fails, then try the other. If everything is close together though, it could be an overheating issue.


Will try that.
June 1, 2014 1:29:07 PM

Well it could be that a single card is failing. To really test out if that is the case you would need to pull 1 card out. Run tests if that card fails, then try the other. If everything is close together though, it could be an overheating issue.
June 1, 2014 1:25:02 PM

dkulprit said:
On both cards, or just 1?


Both cards, everything is packed extremely tightly together in my case, so I try not to touch it.
June 1, 2014 1:23:38 PM

So when you run games on a single card at a time, with the other completely out of the machine, it will fail? Then when you swap and try with the other card, it does the same thing?
June 1, 2014 12:35:04 PM

dkulprit said:
Try running 1 card at a time. If one tests just fine swap and run again with the other card.


Benchmarks and stresses run just fine, but games don't.
June 1, 2014 9:05:32 AM

Try running 1 card at a time. If one tests just fine swap and run again with the other card.
June 1, 2014 8:50:36 AM

geofelt said:
Your symptoms suggest a failing psu.
Can you test with a known good psu?

What happens if you run just one card?


Why doesn't the same thing happen when I run the stress tests then?
May 31, 2014 7:27:52 PM

geofelt said:
Your symptoms suggest a failing psu.
Can you test with a known good psu?

What happens if you run just one card?


I checked and all the voltages seem to be fine.

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