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Use DDU to uninstall the GPU drivers and then download the latest ones.

This issue is known with the new Ryzen chips. It should fix it's self if you have BIOS version with AGESA 1.2.0.7 or newer and update the chipset to the latest version from AMDs website (MSI doesn't have the latest). Turning off TPM in the BIOS used to fix it but now there is no need for that.

The fan might be working but the internals might be damaged.

Usually hard shut downs like that are cause by the PSU. Try another one if you can, and/or remove any overclocks you might have set on the CPU and GPU.

Ok I'll keep that in mind. Nice build you got there. How are the GPU temps and noise? Also how well are the fans on the bottom helping out the GPU compared to stock? I've seen some people say that the bottom fans don't do that much for the GPU and at the same time you add more noise.

I did a bit more research on the Gigabyte vs the MSI board. As I understand the Gigabyte has a better power delivery design. But they are very close with the MSI board. Heard people preferring the Gigabyte BIOS as well. The Gigabyte is pretty much the same price as the MSI in my country. I really like it but the only downside that kind of bothers me is that it doesn't have a front USB Type C header. So that will put the Lian Li's front Type C to waste

I've seen the NR200. It's an interesting case but I'm not a fan of the looks. Also it's not available in my country. I'm pretty much set on the case. Officially the Lian Li TU150 supports SFX-L power supplies. And I've seen some people use the exact same unit with no issues. The Noctua choice of cooler is due to the perfect reputation of the brand in terms of performance at very low noise levels at all RPM. And I'm pretty sensitive in whine like sounds. It's overkill I would guess for the 5600x since it's only a 65W TDP chip but it's chosen mostly for the fact that the fans won't need to spin as fast. The 2nd fan of the cooler will be removed from the CPU tower and positioned right next to it, to the back of the case as exhaust. So I won't need to buy another NFA12. One more NFA12 will be added in the front as intake. As for the MSI motherboards, their VRMs designs are one of the best with boards like the tomahawk. B450 and B550 respectively. These statistics are quite old as well so I'm not really sure what they're worth now. I don't have any experience with MSI though. I might look more brands as well but it's the cheapest B550 ITX in my country with some decent VRM heatsinks. The rest of B550 ITX boards that are available in my country are the: Gigabyte B550I Aorus Pro AX, Asus Rog Strix B550-I Gaming and Asrock Socket B550 Phantom Gaming.

Budget (including currency): ~1600 EUR Country: Greece Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming Parts: Case: Lian Li TU150 CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x (when available) MB: MSI MPG B550I Gaming Edge Wi-Fi RAM: 16GBs 3200 or 3600MHz GPU: RTX 3070 or RX 6800 (when available in reasonable prices) PSU: Be Quiet SFX L Power 600W Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB and Samsung 860 QVO 1TB CPU cooler: Noctua NH-U12A or Noctua NH-D15 Black Case fans: Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM I really like the idea of building a SFF gaming rig. At the same time I want it to be reasonably quiet. The Ryzen 5 5600x is a 65W TDP chip so I think I'm going to be covered here in terms of cooling and noise especially with the Noctua Coolers. The GPU is the one that I'm most worried about. The RX 6800 is a 250W TDP card while the RTX 3070 is 220W TDP. The case has perforated holes right below the GPU and you can also put two more 120mm fans. Depending on how thick the card is you can put normal ones or slim fans. The PSU wattage I think it will be enough for the system. The next upgrade in my country is the Corsair SF750 Platinum which is 70 Euros more. I know this hardware fits the case. I'm mostly worried about how noisy it will be. I really like the system to be quiet during load. Not silent but quiet. The Noctuas have a good reputation in both cooling and noise.

Apparently the disk is "perfect". I don't know.. I'll extract the important files and I'll only use it for media I guess. Power on time is only 44 days as well. Like I only use it as a secondary mostly media storage drive. It's not like its been used heavily.

I think it's not.. I'm not sure though will check. But if I RMA it now they'll see that its working fine lol.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking of doing... The thing is the drive isn't that old anyway. Must be like less than 3 years, more than 2.

Ok so I tried pretty much everything with no luck. At the end I even tried to initialize the disk but it gave me an error. So I was like forget it I'll try again later maybe I can reset it with some command or something. 1 hour later plugged in the drive suddenly it showed up in the disk management as an NTFS drive only that it didn't have a letter to it. So I assigned a letter, windows recognised it and boom all of the files were there. I don't even know what the hell happened! It's like the drive is having a mind of its own. Literally didn't change anything!

I just tried booting from a live Ubuntu USB drive and I only saw my internal drives. Didn't find the external one.

Yeah but I don’t want to lose the files that's the thing...

I'll try making a bootable Ubuntu USB drive. After that what I'll need to do?

Hello guys, I just plugged my WD external HDD to my computer but its not showing up on the file explorer. Only if I go to the Disk Management I can see it but it shows up as "unknown/not initialized" and it asks me to initialize it. The thing is that I do not want to lose any data and as I googled a bit initializing the disk would cause that. I tried downloading some tools but they show the drive as 0MB or not at all cause there isn't any letter assigned to it. So any ideas on how or if I can get my files back at least? I'll add some screenshots if it helps. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks!

Ok thanks if it happens again I'll do it that way. What's the use of cpu-z and gpu-z tho? Only for monitoring?

Yeah if it happens again I'll reinstall Windows.

I played Siege for around 3 hours and I had no issues. I didn't change anything from yesterday. I dont know whats going on but as you said that weird af lol. Like... how can it be a software issue? But then again how can it be a hardware one? Stress test for 2 hours and nothing happened. I will continue using my PC like I was used to and I will try out some more games. If anything new comes up I'll post here.

Ok so I'm running stress test for the past 2 hours now and got nothing. No crashes no anything. The fist half an hour I was running Aida64 along with Unigine Heaven and after that it was Aida64 with FurMark. I also checked out the boxes for: Stress local disks, system memory, cache and FDU. So the system had everything working maxed out. I also did 2 runs with Memtest86+ and found no errors. What do you make out of this? I will try playing some games again and see what happens and I'll post back when I got any news. Here some screenshots you can check:

Yes I did the DDU thing already. Im on my GPU now and its fine on the desktop but it will pretty sure crash in game again. I will try running a GPU stress test and see if I get anything from there.

Yes but now Im on my GPU again

Hello guys! So I have a GTX 660Ti from MSI. Two times one of the two fans stopped working. First time I replaced them, second time I didn't bother. I just removed my overclock. So for a lot of months now my GPU is running with only one of two fans. And depending on the game, if it's maxing out my GPU it is running on about 88 degrees celsius (190 Fahrenheit). I didn't have any issues though. So far... Today I was playing Rainbow Six Siege and suddenly my game froze, and after a while my PC restarted on its own. Went into Windows and after 5 minutes everything froze except the mouse pointer. Restarted the PC manually. This time no issues on Windows. Started the game again and after some time it froze again. It didn't restart on its own this time. Task manager would not open so I just restarted it manually. Tried another game and again it froze the whole system. After restarting my PC I had no signal from the GPU on my monitor. I unpluged the HDMI cable and I pluged it on my motherboards port. So I was using Intel graphics. I downloaded DDU and reinstalled my graphics drivers. This time I had signal coming ouy of my GPU. Tried playing some games but again the PC just froze again after a while. Restarted with no signal coming from the GPU again. After a 5 minutes wait and a shutdown in between I had signal on my GPU. So now I'm using my GPU. But I won't try playing any games again cause I'm certain it will crash again. I'm pretty sure that's the GPU slowly dying cause of running too hot for some time now. Like, nvidia says my max GPU temp should be 90 and I was running ~88 on some game sessions. But yesterday I was playing fine. Also I am using RTSS for capping my framerate now. So my GPU isn't fully stressed on all games (some do stress it though). Like the last time that it crashed I think it was running on 70 celsius. So that's why i'm not 100% sure. Could it be another part that is failing? I don't think it's a software issue because of those two occasions that my GPU had no signal after the crashes. What do you guys think? I am already planning on getting a GTX 1060 pretty soon so that's good. But I want to be sure so I don't get the new GPU and have the same problems again. Thanks!

Ok then thanks for the info. I'll wait this month to see more of these DX12 benchmarks against the 480 and then I'll make a choice. The only clear winner here is Doom with the 480 using Vulkan but thats just only one game.

I can see that on GTA when i'm inside the city that my CPU maxes out and the GPU is like on 80%. And I got like 45-50 frames from time to time. But if its rarely then its ok. Annoying af but I can live with it Hope the new Deus Ex doesnt share the same story though. Cause I'm really looking forward on playing this game a lot.