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Kidbest100
By Kidbest100
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So I built my new rig a few months back.  It was working completely fine, but occasionally my screen would freeze up and go black.  I re-did all my drivers and that seemed to fix the issue for the most part.

 

Since then, I've downloaded my latest graphics drivers and all that, and have been keeping up to date with all of the others.

 

However, it seems that lately, (today especially) the problems have been getting worse. 

 

What happens is that I'll be playing a game, (It seems to only really happen when playing games) and my screen will either go black, and have the game still running in the background, and my monitor will display the big white "ASUS DVI" message in the top left and after a few econds or so it will return to my game. Or my screen will go OUT of the game, and to my desktop, but instead of seeing the desktop, everything is white and all I can see is the bottom navigation bar in windows.  I can't move my mouse, and I can't alt-tab back into the game.  So, running windows 8.1, I just hit CTR ALT DELETE and then sign out, and sign back in to my PC which solves the issue.  However it's been happening very frequently today, I've counted it happening 8 times in the past 2 hours.

 

In case you're wondering, my specs are as follows: (And yes, these problems were happening before I overclocked my graphics card and CPU, but not as frequently)

 

i5 4670K @ 4.4 GHz, somewhere between 1.8 and 1.9 volts, cant remember. ( Cooled by CM Hyper 212+ )

8 gigs Corsair vengeance 1600Mhz

MSI Z87 G43

Asus Radeon R9 280X DCUII TOP @ 1.1 GHz

 

 

Has anyone else had this issue before?

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No way is it 1.8 or 1.9v

DESKTOP - Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H Processor - Intel Core i5-2500K @ Stock 1.135v Cooling - Cooler Master Hyper TX3 RAM - Kingston Hyper-X Fury White 4x4GB DDR3-1866 Graphics Card - MSI GeForce GTX 780 Lightning PSU - Seasonic M12II EVO Edition 850w  HDD -  WD Caviar  Blue 500GB (Boot Drive)  /  WD Scorpio Black 750GB (Games Storage) / WD Green 2TB (Main Storage) Case - Cooler Master 335U Elite OS - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

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The issue may be your CPUs at 1.8-1.9V, it's probably melted into a pool of molten silicon below the cooler. 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790k @ 4.7 1.3v  with a Corsair H80 w/Dual SP120s - Motherboard: MSI Z97 gaming 5 - RAM: 4x4 G.Skill Ripjaws X @ 1600 - GPU: Dual PowerColour R9 290- SSD: Samsung NVME SM951 256GB-- PSU: Corsair RM 1000  - Case: NZXT H440 Black/red - Keyboard: Coolermaster CM storm Quickfire TK, Cherry MX blues - Mouse: Logitech G502 - Heaphones: Beyerdynamic DT 770 - Monitors: 3x VE248H Eyefinity 1080P -  Phone: iPhone 6S Plus               Please post your specifications in your post, signature or even better, system page on your profile!

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haha, my apologies, I meant to say 1.18 or 1.19.

My actual voltage, I just checked is set at 1.175

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haha, my apologies, I meant to say 1.18 or 1.19.

My actual voltage, I just checked is set at 1.175

 

Lol anyway it could be a case that your current voltage can't support the overclock but since you said the issues happened before the overclocked the CPU has exhausted any ideas I had

DESKTOP - Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H Processor - Intel Core i5-2500K @ Stock 1.135v Cooling - Cooler Master Hyper TX3 RAM - Kingston Hyper-X Fury White 4x4GB DDR3-1866 Graphics Card - MSI GeForce GTX 780 Lightning PSU - Seasonic M12II EVO Edition 850w  HDD -  WD Caviar  Blue 500GB (Boot Drive)  /  WD Scorpio Black 750GB (Games Storage) / WD Green 2TB (Main Storage) Case - Cooler Master 335U Elite OS - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

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I think it has something to do with windows 8.1. The drivers may not be updated for it. My friend had something of the same problem and it helped to go back to windows 8

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