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This one has me stumped. I have an old lenovo computer with an OEM AMD R9 260. The graphics switched to the IGPU a long time ago, as a kid I took it in to a shop but they didn't do anything with it, and I got it back months later. Long story. Anyhow, after that I got into computers and have since built my own PCs. Recently I cleaned out my old computer with the R9 260 in it, noticed it had dedicated graphics in it, and wondered why it wasn't working. Under drivers the GPU had the windows error code 31. I figured no problem, I'll just install the AMD auto driver updater. Soon after, the entire device blue screened. The auto repair failed, and the device turns on but no graphics will register & the monitor will remain black. I'm officially stumped, does anyone have any suggestions on how to repair it. Would love to still be able to use it for nostalgia purposes & since it was a gift from my recently deceased grandmother, but I think it might be salvage at this point. I have not tried a windows repair usb yet or tried putting in another graphics card.

Hi, I apologise in advance, I'm relatively new to PC building so please forgive me. I'm not super hardware literate. I'm absolutely at my wits end with this system and nobody has been able to suggest anything really, except for one person who thinks my issue might be caused by CPU throttling. I didn't even know that was a thing until today! I'm running the following system: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 with Wraith Stealth cooler Prime A320M-K (I've since been told this is not a great board ) Radeon RX5700 XT 8GB plugged in to modular psu, not daisychained 16gb ram Things I've unsuccessfully tried to stop the driver timeouts: Keeping PC clean with air duster Cleanly uninstalling and reinstalling current drivers using DDU Cleanly uninstalling and reinstalling previous drivers using DDU Replacing PSU to modular, increasing wattage and replacing the daisychain cable that came with the 5700XT Changed available virtual memory to 20gb Increased GPU fan speeds to 80% and decreased voltage to under 1100 Turned off AMD Freesync Adjusted Windows Power Management Turned off Windows Gaming Mode I'm having trouble with the RX 5700 XT frequently timing out and crashing in newer games, particularly it seems to hate Red Dead Redemption 2. Sometimes the whole machine just powers off and restarts, like it had overheated. In WIndows Reliability Monitor I either get the "Hardware Error, LiveKernelEvent code 141" error for if it's crashed the game, or just "Unexpected shutdown" if it restarted the PC. It doesn't seem to be overheating according to temp monitors, I ran GPU-Z while playing RDR2 and while it didn't crash this time, the max CPU temp was only 55c with the GPU reaching only about 47c so I don't believe it's overheating. I've attached this log to the post. After trying many different suggestions I read online I decided to run some benchmarking programs (OCCT and FurMark) and was surprised to see that a). my GPU was totally fine but b). my CPU was running at 99%/100% pretty much the entire time during the actual GPU test, it would randomly drop maybe to 49% then shoot straight back up to 99%+. I've attached a pic of the OCCT power test. I also ran a VRAM test on the GPU and that was fine, but again you can see the CPU is spiking all over the place. PC has passed all OCCT and Furmark benchmark tests without crashing or errors detected. I've also ran Cinebench R23 multi core and got a score of 6996. Is this likely to be CPU throttling? If it is, how would I fix this? Sorry for the wall of text, and thanks for bearing with me! I'd really appreciate any help anyone can give me regarding this at all. Thank you! GPU-Z Sensor Log A.txt

Hello, I bought used laptop Acer E5-576G from repair shop and when I opened it up I found a red soldered wire inside on the motherboard. It clearly looks, that the repairmen did that. I checked the internet if the original motherboard has this wire or not and I didn't saw any. Why would they do that? Also, all games crashing on this laptop when playing them with NVIDIA GPU (MX150). Maybe that hand-soldered wire shortens out something? Or GPU is dying? Strange, but it's not even looks that it has any problems at NVIDIA control panel live view, no artifacts or glitches. I saw some artifacts on Far Cry New Dawn menu and I managed to get it working for about 10 seconds without crashing, gameplay was very smooth, no graphical glitches. Where could be the problem? What I did: Updated windows to the latest Updated NVIDIA drivers to the latest Reinstalled Windows Changed thermal paste on CPU and GPU ( Before changing I saw that repairmen applied too much of it and it looked like a silicone paste) (Maybe that was one of the problems too?) Checked if it's not dusty inside the laptop, but it was very clean Nothing worked... Also, I added a reference picture, of how it looks.

About a year ago I used to have trouble with games crashing like this, but I underclocked both gpu and vram. That reduced the frequency of crashes but it would happen once in a while. The crashes would, on some games, give me a error like graphics driver needs to updated, other times the screen would just freeze, audio would loop then after a while the game would close. I then had to quit gaming for a while, but after updating to Windows 11, I started to notice that games wouldn't crash anymore. Maybe a month after I got back to playing games, again the crashes started to appear, with similar pattern as before but sometimes with DXGI ERROR DEVICE HUNG. The more demanding the game, the higher the graphics setting is, the faster it will crash. But since the last weeks the crashes have been so frequent I cant game at all. it went from 30ish mins in between crashes to 2-4 mins in between crashes. The system hasn't crashed in normal use, other than gaming. I have yet to notice any artifacts. System is 2 years old. Things I have tried- -underclocking gpu alone and along with underclocking vram. ( reduced crash frequency temporarily) -resetting MOBO BIOS - disabling GeForce overlay( reduced crash frequency temporarily) -Disabling XMP - Using DDU to do a fresh install of drivers -Reverting to old drivers -Changing the power supply -Running Memtest = it showed no errors -changing the thermal paste on Gpu and cleaning the heatsink even tho temps are always sub 65C hot spot reaching 70C. System specs- - AMD Ryzen 5 3500X 6-Core Processor - One stick of Corair Vengance LPX 16GB 3200Mhz - Zotac AMP GTX 1660 Super - Corair CV-650 PSU - MSI b450m-a pro max - KINGSTON 250 Gb Nvme SSD - Seagate 1 TB HDD

Just want to ask that what could be the possible fault in GPU? Bios chip corrupted? Or any other fault? I have 1080Ti and it randomly gives black screen. · I did Furmark for more than half an hour it didn't crash. · Firestrike Extreme with above 12.5k score didn't crash. · Superposition on 8K above 30Fps and above 4.2k score didn't crash. · It does not crash in games also. After all the effort what I found is that if I disable hardware acceleration in MS Word, Photoshop etc it stops crashing. While it crashes with those applications even if I am not using them it usually crashes without load on desktop screen, using MS Word, chrome and even some times without using anything it crashes. The point is that it do not crashes on load rather crashes without any load. Hardware Acceleration Enabled: Crash Hardware Acceleration Disable: No crash I tried it on 4 different systems and it crashed on all of them while other Rpm work fine on those systems. Just want to ask that what could be the possible fault in GPU? Bios chip corrupted? Or any other fault?

Hello everybody, I need help regarding GPU crashes. At the date I'm writing this, my GPU (NVidia GeForce GTX 1060 6gb) has already crashed about 5 times and at different temperatures.Last time it crashed it reached 65 degrees celcius, before that at 54 degrees celcius. I've had the same problem 2 months ago and then re applied some thermal paste. Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks a bunch.

Hello, I was playing a game and suddenly the pc artifacted and restarted. It doesnt proceed to windows now, it just shows that little thing turning when windows start and then blank screen. I can enter UEFI and navigate but there are artifacts like lines appearing in it also. I removed the GPU and found some weird grease on some part of it(http://imgur.com/84G87jO), is this the cause, is my GPU dead? Please advise Thanks in advance specs: Windows 10 64bit core i7 4770k driver 372.70 GTX 780 3GB EVGA SC

So I have a 1060 and I've used it since 2017 without any problem. But today when i was playing cod, my screen suddenly went black and my card ramped up the fan speed to 100%. I have to restart my computer everytime it happens. I've tried many ways to fix it but it's still not working( re-plug the pci-e, reinstall GPU driver, overvolted GPU, etc). And now I can't play any games without having that problem. I really need some help ?

SPECS: Intel i5-8600K CPU @ 3.6GHz, 3600Mhz, 6 Cores (CPU) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 GB (GPU) Kingston 2x 8GB Hyper X Fury, DDR4 2666Mhz (RAM) 620W S12II-620 ATX, 80 Plus Bronze (PSU) ROG Strix Z370 (MBOARD, Bios version: American Megatrends Inc.1002, 7/2/2018) 1TB WD Blue, 3.5'', SATA III (HDD) NVMe Samsung SSD 960 SCSI (SSD) Windows 10, x64 I'll cut to the chase and thank you for taking your time reading this and helping: This problem has occured when I've played a game called The Forest. At random times (sometimes after clicking "continue from save", sometimes 2 hours into the gameplay) my screen would suddenly go black, sound would freeze for a moment and some fans in the computer would turn very loud and at the end my monitor would say no signal. Only a Hard reboot would bring graphics card back. The wierd thing is, the sound would still work and I could talk to people on discord. What makes this problem wierd: Whenever I play, I follow my temps very closely and keep logs of things. My GPU temp would only go as high as 74c at max settings, and CPU as high as 55c. Completely normal right? Fans working fine at 40-45% usually. Voltages to GPU usually 1.05 volts. All normal. I have tried to make the GPU crash using stress tests and benchmarks. Ive ran; Unigine heaven and superposition. Getting good values for my setup, no crashes. I've ran FurMark and Prime95 at the same time for 2 hours and GPU temps never went over 74c and CPU temps over 62c. I've ran Windows Memory Diagnostics and have gotten 0 errors. All other games work fine and the computer can handle every other aspect very well. How can my computer crash on a simple game but have the power to run furmark and prime95 at the same time for hours? One wierd thing; whenever I would click multiplayer mode in the game The Forest, I would hear a very silent russtle. U can't hear it if you don't put your ear near the case. Hasn't happened in any other game. I havn't overclocked any of my stuff, and they're all at their factory speeds. Could the problem be game related, i have tried to reproduce it and I've managed that going to the same spot in the game - meaning it has crashed on the excatly the same spot twice now. Event viewer and what it tells: I've looked at the event viewer when the graphics card crashes. Playing SC2 and alttabbing showed the graphics card crash in the events. It told something along the lines: "The graphics driver went unresponsive and didn't recover". The crash that happens playing The Forest left atleast 100 of these behind: But these erros happened only once, now it leaves no traces behind it. Only the "critical" of Kernel-Power that computer lost power unexpectedly (This is because of my hard reboot right?). What I've read, this would indicate a hardware problerm, wouldn't it? What I've tried: - Updating Bios. - Using most recent graphics driver, and rolling back a patch and using one from march - Unistalling and reinstalling the driver using DDU in the safemode - Checking the PCI express wires to components (though not on PSU side) - Unseating and reseating the ram - Formatting the computer to factory settings - Having the game on both HDD and SSD - Turning settings to as low as possible (Still occurs!) - Taking one of the monitors out of the setup - Running the game as adminstrator - Running Memory Diagnostics - Checking HDD and SSD for fragmentation The logs and what they tell: Since I can't see anything when the crash happened, I followed the logs using GPU-Z. Everything is going fine and all values are completely normal, then suddenly all the graphics card values go to 0. Even the fans! Yet I hear very loud fans when the GPU crash happens. After the crash, the CPU keeps going as normal and it's temps from before the crash dont change one bit (before crash 44c after the crash 42-44). LOOK AT THE ATTACHMENTS FOR THE GPU-Z SENSOR LOG REPORT. Conclusion: If you guys have ran in to the same problem, I would really appreciate the help. Im quite poor student and can't afford many replacement parts. I appreciate it if you made it this far and would take any suggestion! Do you think it's the software side or the hardware side that causes the crash? I've tried to run the game at pixel graphics and having 40% GPU and temps at 58-60 and it still crashes. GPU-Z Sensor Log - The forest Crash.txt

I've been troubleshooting for a while now but I can't get my GPU to go past 60℃ without crashing. I think it may be a safety precaution on the card and I can't find out how to disable it. I've included the Dxdiag. My GPU is an AMD Radeon Sapphire RX 470 Nitro+ 8GB. My GPU is fine overclocked and my fans do their jobs but as soon as I hit 60℃ my GPU shuts itself down, AMD Settings crashes and my game/benchmark crashes. I then have to reapply my overclock. I am using Wattman to overclock as AMD Cards do not play nice with other software. I have tried making my fans work at 100% which keeps it below 60℃ and the card never crashes but the fans are very loud and it'd just be easier for my GPU to max out at 80℃ or 85℃ as 60℃ for an overclocked GPU isn't that bad. https://gyazo.com/f509f8056d5ea0991bfcdf9562c27c6c As you can see by the image I have my Wattman settings set up so that 90℃ is the max temperature yet it still shuts down at 60℃. DxDiag.txt

So I have a really rather weird one! Today I built up a brand new machine with 100% brand new parts. Now the problem I'm having is that my brand new GTX 970 appears to be causing my machine to reboot as soon as the GPU activity gets high, I can use Windows normally and it is absolutely fine but as soon as I say load up firestrike benchmark or GTA V or its benchmark tool the system freezes and reboots. So I did some diagnostics and came to the conclusion the GPU was bad, So I swapped in my GTX 770 and that works absolutely fine in everything, But before I wanted to write off the GTX 970 as bad I put it in my Sandybridge i7 rig and low and behold it seems to work absolutely fine which has left me stumped! The system I built today has an Asrock 99 Extreme 4, 5820k & 32GB Corsair 2666 LPX ram and a Corsair ax760 power supply. I have so far ran stress tests on the CPU and memory with zero failures (both at stock clocks and overclocked) Checked all the system temps and everything is running really cool Tried resetting my bios settings and running the benchmarks/ games with all overclocks off. changing PCI slots. re installing & re downloading drivers. changing the cables on the PSU. I haven't however swapped PSUs with my Sandybridge rig (as they're both identical models) because the GTX 770 draws way more power so I'm going to assume that the PSU isn't defective and can power the rig. Where the heck should I go from here? Will.

Last night i was playing Saints Row and sudenlly red pixels start poping on the screen,i pressed Alt+Tab to enter windows and then i got message "AMD Driver has stopped working and has recovered" bla bla bla shit.. So i switched again to game and as soon as i entered same problem ocurrs i tryied again with Alt+Tab but...it did not helped. Then my monitor goes black and VGA no signal,i have intergraded GPU which is shit,so the dirty RAM coud not be problem cuz i managed to boot properly with my intergraded graphics.Please help me if you can,at least tell my did GPU died or what? Model Ati Radeon 4850 HD

Ok guys, yesterday I was trying to unlock some more power limit availability from 20 to 50 in msi afterburner by messing around with regedit. I followed a guide on overclock.net. Anyways it didn't work and now when I try oveerclocking my screen turns black for a minute and my computer restarts. Additionally before this started to happen I experienced a BSOD where it said thread stuck in device driver. Please help, I really don't want my machine to die on something I did and software wise too! I have an r9 380 which is the gpu in question and a fx 8320 cpu and a 750 watt evga supernova. I could Overclock before i messed around in regedit any way to fix this? Also i remember clicking something on my exported regedit file that said it was saved somewhere, perhaps that is a problem. Pls help!

i got a new gpu and it and when i overclock it, it doesn't show any artifacts or anything, but at around +100core or more, i run unigine heaven and for about 20mins, then my computer black screen and hardlocks, is this a problem with the gpu? or something else?