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Your explanation is fine, it's just not how things work in real world. You see the people who design CPUs and GPUs are real smart. They have invented that magical thing called power throttling that makes it real hard for any PSU to crash the system no matter how much you try. And I have tried!

No I told you to prove me wrong. Where is the YouTube video that someone puts a 200-300-400W PSU below recommended power and the system crashes?

Well if I had told you then you would had tell me to change it lol

Well I honestly haven't seen a post that has been solved by a PSU replacement. There might be some cases but I have never seen one. On the other hand I see on every post that someone always says to change the PSU. That's why I stated that my PSU is good from the beginning.

Yeah check the paste and your MB's temp that will show how cool your box is.

No like I said it wasn't the PSU. I have no clue what it was. It also crashed on time spy extreme. It used to be much more stable with less RAM clock tho. I mean it was still crashing on 2400 Mhz instead of 3200 Mhz but less. And if it was the RAM I have no clue why I didn't get a blue screen instead of disabling my GPU. Anyway like I said I upgraded to Zen 4 and no more crashes.

As a matter of fact even if my PSU is 200 W bellow recommended it won't cause any instability. Prove me wrong.

Are you thick? Read what I wrote above. Stop spreading misinformation and I don't need your ignorance about PSUs. Thank you.

Yeah it does it randomly too tho not as often for sure. It doesn't do it right now for example. What I have noticed is that if a lot of time has passed and it doesn't do it then it's more unlikely to happen. But if it has recently happened then it's quite likely to happen again soon. I have to on 90fps cap. That's about 200w. Not much for a 315w GPU.

So my PC has an RX 6800XT GPU and a Ryzen 5500 CPU and worked happily for a year and a half so far. The RX 6800XT transformer is making some bzzzz noises when above 100w but maybe it's normal. Until I started playing Lords of the Fallen. Just after the game crashed and I was shown the desktop suddenly I got a black monitor. I knew that my Windows were still working because my mouse's lights were on but I had a black monitor. Later I confirmed that Windows is still running using remote desktop. So I press reset. And I was greeted with the 5 beeps which means VGA not found. PC still POST, and Windows boot, without VGA alright but I get a black screen. After I turned off PC and start again my GPU was magically found but my Windows had a 800x600 resolution. I found out that this is because Windows have disabled my GPU! So what I had to do was to enable the GPU through the device manager and reinstall the driver. Then I tried to play Lords of the Fallen again but I got instantly a black screen again. Then I had to do the same routine power off, power on and reinstall driver. I then tried run the Heaven benchmark and instant black screen again. And after that I was getting black screen without doing anything in particular, without any gaming just been in Windows. I moved my GPU to another PCI slot but that didn't help much neither. At this point I was thinking sending it back when I thought to try a different Windows installation I had. And I did just that and it worked just fine. For the time been. So I thought maybe it's the Windows and I did a restore from a system image and it worked fine on the main Windows installation too. Hours passed and everything was fine...but then it did it again. While I was playing Lords of the Fallen Black screen. And I have 3 Windows installations. And it does it on all of them. No matter if I do image restore or not. Sometimes it works just fine. Like yesterday I was playing all day and everything was fine. Until at night it started doing it again. And after it starts doing it it just keeps doing it again and again. Like every 10 minutes. Or I get the 5 beeps on boot and I have to switch on and off again. And like I said it's not just the Lords of the Fallen it does that it can randomly happen on Windows too. Or at the Lightroom. From the other hand it can pass the AMD's stress test. And can run Heaven benchmark at 300w no problem. PSU is not an issue I have 2 more PSUs but I don't even bother. I measured the 12v rail on the GPU with a multimeter while gaming and it's fine. Plus if the PSU is not on fire then it's fine. I also have a very old GPU the R6850 which did work the last time it's been used and I had her in a box since then, it's a bit rusty but I thought it should be fine, but when I put it on the MB and tried to POST I got the 5 beeps again so I don't know what to think about that. Maybe it's not my GPU but something else? (not the PSU!) Anyway I also did a CMOS reset tho it worked fine for an hour or so after that I eventually got the black screen again which means that Windows disable my GPU. So I'm not sure if it's my GPU plus the shop I bought it from has now closed and I am not sure if the representative in my country will accept the guarantee or not because they might claim that the shop had bought it from somewhere else abroad or whatnot but the most important thing is how to prove that is defective if it can work for hours without a hitch. I think the best thing to do is to upgrade my CPU from 5500 to 7600X tho I am not sure if I am going to see much difference and that means I have to change MB and RAM and get much more RAM by the way because Lightroom leaks RAM like a colander. And then see if Windows disable my GPU again.

I had the same problem with you when I upgraded my Ryzen CPU. The cooler was stuck to the CPU. So I had that bright idea to heat up the thermal paste...by running a CPU benchmark on Windows. So while the benchmark was running I pulled the cooler really hard (in hindsight I should had twist it instead) and the cooler came off with the CPU and the Windows crashed...typical. I don't know if my CPU was damaged, because I just put the new one afterwards, but the Motherboard was fine.

That makes no sense. Windows 10 should have no problem to be installed on a GPT drive

I have Windows 10 and all the games I have played so far have the HDR option greyed out if I haven't enable HDR on Windows. Is that normal? Because I don't like HDR enabled on Windows only on some games.

Well it seems legit and it has VHDX. Assuming that the restore process works of course... I'll give it some thought. Thanks.

So after my latest discovery that Microsoft's Windows Image Backup won't restore on a corrupted Windows installation or an empty drive I'm looking for an alternative backup method. This website claims that R-Drive is their favorite. And for R-Drive alone they say that it can be mounted as a VHD which is critical. I don't know if the rest can be mounted or not. https://www.pcworld.com/article/407021/best-windows-backup-software.html So I downloaded the R-drive, it doesn't have a direct "backup system image" option but i created a backup of the "system drive" the "uefi system partition" and the "windows recovery partition" and it is true that they could be mounted using VHD. But when I restored them to a different drive it did not boot! I don't know if I did something wrong. Which other programs can make system backups from the Windows environment that can be mounted and actually work?!

If it was me I'd change the MB. You can use needles on the cable to read the voltage with the multimeter directly from the MB connection but I bet it's gonna be 3.3V, specially since you have already changed PSU.

I guess it's the MB or some cable if you're lucky. So you get 3.3V on the multimeter but the PC reports it as less than that?

That's pretty nice. I had to download the plugins to open those files but it gets the job done. I think I'll like it even more when I'll get the hang of it. Thanks a lot!

In my opinion JPEGview is hands down the best image viewer for Windows out there. I use it many years and it has everything I want. Fast as hell, minimal interface, fullscreen, no BS. You can also do some editing with it and it has some perks that most other editing programs don't have like loseless rotation and crop for Jpeg. Oh and did I mention that it is freeware? Unfortunately tho it has been discontinued for like 6 years now. And there are some files I need to view that it just have not the ability to read. Like the DNG and the CR3 files. So what am I going to do? Adobe Bridge is the best alternative I know. Still it's not going to display a file just by double clicking it. And on top of that it's going to sit and create thumbnails for the whole folder, as if I need that. I tried the file viewer plus but it's rather slow to open,it has no full screen, and most importantly you cannot view the adjacent images by using the arrow keys. I mean do you know an image viewer that I don't?

So all started when I tried to boot from a HDD that I had the Windows 11 installed. It was asking me for a PIN that I don't remember putting there. Anyway I decided it's not important and that I would just delete the installation. However I had other stuff on the HDD also that I wanted to keep and they were many GB in size. I didn't want to just format it and then rewrite them, but how would I delete the Windows folder? I tried twice with the IObit unlocker but every time after deleting a bunch of files it stopped. I decided that I would call it a day and format and rewrite the data tomorrow. I put my PC to sleep and I went to sleep too. But in the mid of the night something happened. The power went down. And my PC went from sleep to off. Next morning, unaware of the calamity that is about to happen, I turned on my PC and it, as it always happens on those cases, decided to boot from the corrupted Windows 11 installation instead of my main Windows 10 SSD. It failed of course, but Windows wouldn't be Windows if they didn't spread their corruption from the Windows 11 installation to the 10, which is on a different drive BTW... Luckily for me I had sense that something bad was about to happen and I had an Image backup of my Windows 10 from yesterday. Or was I?... I had never used an image backup before but I didn't imagine Microsoft would F$%& up a simple thing as that. But that's exactly what they did. The Image restore didn't finish,probably because of a corrupted boot sector, which is why you make an Image backup in the first place! I thought hard what to do next. The Image backup comes in 3 partitions so I thought if I could replace those partitions manually it could work, but that made things even worse. Then I deleted all the partitions of the SSD and gave it a go, but surprise!, Image restore doesn't work on an empty drive. Then I remembered an old 40GB SSD that had a Windows 10 installation on it. I cloned that on my M.2 NVMe and at last the Image restore worked. As a bonus it restored all the partitions of my SSD even those I had not backed up, those were empty of course, but I took care of it. In the end I ended up to be a lot less font of the Windows Image backup than I was. But it's great that those backups can be mounted and just take any file you like. I don't know if the same can be done with other backups.

You must be right. I must have downloaded the Macrium rescue I think I am installing the reflect trial version now but I also think that it used to be a free version. Anyway thanks.

So I'm running windows from the C drive I have also a Windows installation on the D drive which is a different SSD I want to backup the D drive, while running Windows, and then restore that backup on another SSD. How am I going to do that? I downloaded AOEMI backupper and Macrium reflect but they both don't seem to work from Windows but from bootable USBs...

So my TV is the SAMSUNG 55NU7093 55'' and as far as I know it's native resolution is 3840x2160 but from Windows I can also select the resolution 4096x2160, while for my monitor that is also 3840x2160 I can't. So why can I select a higher than it's native resolution for my TV?

Won't they split from the opposite side then?