TisseFrans

Thanks for the tip but it didn't work. I've already disabled fast-boot in windows and changed all power sleep -and/or off settings to "never". So strange.

No faults, no change.

Forgot to write that I've cleared CMOS several times. All drivers has been updated. I'll try running a memtes, thanks!

Hi guys I'm building a PC for a kid in the family. He plays Fortnite, Warzone and stuff like that. But I have a very very strange issue here. Never experienced anything like it before and even googling the issue doesn't return any useful solutions. Help me LTT forum. You're my only hope. Anyway this is the setup: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 MSI B450 GAMING PLUS MAX Kingston HyperX FURY DDR4-3200 C16 DC - 16GB ASUS GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Phoenix OC - 6GB GDDR6 Corsair CV550 Kingston A2000 M.2 NVMe SSD - 500GB The PC is working brilliantly when turned up normally. Boots up in less than 10 secs from when you press the power button. There is no problem when the PC is idling or running games. When you shut it down from windows it shuts down and powers off. All completely normal. The issue is when I select restart from Windows. It shuts down but doesn't power off and just stands there with a black screen but all fans still running. BUT the motherboard CPU debug light comes on. I have to shut it down with the power button and press it again to restart the PC. It will then boot up completely normal like nothing has happened. Things I've tried during troubleshooting: 1. All drivers/windows updated. 2. Installed the latest MSI bios (7B86vH72). It's a beta version so I then installed the lastest non-beta version (7B86vH6) 3. Messed around with various power options like disabling fast boot etc. 4. Tried running the system with only 1 stick of RAM. Then the other. Tried to swap the RAM sticks. 5. If I manually short the two restart switch pins on the motherboard (the case doesn't have a restart switch for some odd reason) the PC restarts immediately and powers back on and boots into windows normally. No. 5. leads me to believe that it is some kind of weird software issue rather than a hardware, but I might be mistaken. I have never encountered this kind of fault before and I'm kinda running out of ideas. I put my faith in you guys! Thanks in advance!

I am a home-studio music producer/gamer/pc nerd. Something that I am really curious about, with AMD stomping ahead, is the difference in CPU effectiveness when it comes specifically to music production. Is Ryzen better in this particular area than intel, is it dependent on which DAW you are using? (I'm using Ableton live). The major players are the likes of Ableton Live, Cubase, Protools, Logic, but you would need the exact same project for each CPU in each DAW. Thats something a commoner like myself would never have the resources to do, but it would be really interesting for people in music production! (in my humble opinion) (pic of my nerd cave attached for absolutely no relavance)

Thanks for your input everybody! To wrap up this story: I got a full refund or a new card at the store. No questions asked, which was very nice and a reflief as I had feared they might want to try and get around it. But there was no issue what so ever. The PNY card wasn't in stock so i grabbed an ASUS Dual OC instead for a little extra cash. I don't mind as I have never had any issues with all my ASUS cards and it's quite obvious that the overall build quality is a level or two higher with ASUS compared to PNY. Popped in the ASUS card and everything seems to works flawless. I still need to run some benchmarks but so far in every game it has run perfectly. I guess the conclusion were that the PNY card malfunctioned somehow. Thanks again! P.S. RGB makes everyone better at gaming!

I'll contact the store tomorrow. 2080's hasn't had the best record have they?!

RMA seems to be a way to go...I just wanted to hear if you guys thought it could be a software issue. (I don't personally)

I don't get BSOD. Just random GPU related error messages from each game and plain old freezes.

Corsair CX750. RMA is still an option...it's just a pain in the ass.

As far as I can tell the voltages checks out fine...

But if the card can't run factory specs then I suppose I should RMA it anyway, right?!

Didn't think of my PSU as an issue. It's a Corsair CX750 and it's a few years old. Can't remember exactly. Is there any way to test the PSU without having to replace the it with another?

Hi guys. I hope maybe you have some input to my issue. I have a bad feeling about my PNY RTX 2080 XLR8. While I was playing Apex Legends the other day my game suddenly crashed with the infamous display driver crash that came back in february but should be fixed in march with the 419.35 driver. So I thought it was some kind of driver or software issue, but perhaps not. It crashes about 10 secs after the game has loaded constantly. I've tried 5 different nvidia drivers: Updating to the newest ones, reverting to old ones, I've done clean installs every time, I've removed the old drivers with DDU. Uninstalled the game, re-downloaded it, tried repairing, re-download Origin, Windows is completely updated. Then I started testing other games like Wolfenstein, Path of Exile and every one of them crashes after a few seconds. I tried to run Timespy in 3Dmark and that almost instantly crashes. The weird thing is that League of Legends and CS:GO runs fine. I know those games doesn't require as much power but still...I find it weird. It not because it gets warm. It sits at 36C and reaches 40C when the game crashes, and it hasn't been overclocked. Now I replaced the 2080 with an ASUS GTX 1660 Ti, re-installed drivers and everything works as perfectly as my 2080 used to (until it started crashing everything). Is that just a clear indication that my 2080 is dead or dying? Is there any way to confirm this? Thanks for the help in advance. Ben

I've set the limit in Afterburner to 84c because I didn't want it to get hotter than that.Lowering the temperature just makes it too damn loud.