No video when turning on PC, but it works after restarting

[Vengarl]

Hey everybody! I recently upgraded my PC and I have some weird issues that I never encountered on my previous dinosaur PC.

 

My computer turns on, but the screen remains black or I get some green spots on my screen. Everything else seems to turn on with no issues in the background, I can hear the system sounds and autostartup stuff. 

So far holding the power button down and starting the system again seemed to fix it, but I really wanna know what causes this.

 

Additionally, my windows is also acting strange sometimes, the mouse cursor lags and the audio is glitching, but same thing, a restart fixes it. 

At first I thought it was because of windows, so I switched to Windows 10 Pro, but nope, same thing. 

 

I'm using an Asus GTX1060 6GB dual OC which had been used in the old system for a year with no issues. The framerate in games is stable and the GPU runs at normal temperatures (70ish celsius max when playing for 1-2hours), I use the "OC mode" preset in Asus GPU Tweak II, so it's not really overclocked either. 

 

System specs: 

Ryzen 3700X 

MSI B450 Tomahawk 

16GB Corsair Vengeance 3200MHz

Asus GTX 1060 6GB Dual OC

Corsar RM750X 

Noctua NH D14 Cooler

 

What could the issue be? I haven't messed with anything in BIOS other than flash-upgrading it to the most recent version to support the Ryzen 7 when I got the motherboard.

[5x5]

Use DDU to install an older GPU driver. Also try a different slot and cable. If that doesn't help, seems like the card is on its last legs

[Vengarl]

Just now, 5x5 said:

Use DDU to install an older GPU driver. Also try a different slot and cable. If that doesn't help, seems like the card is on its last legs

I was about to reinstall the drivers, but something tells me it's GPU Tweak II that causes the issues by applying the OC settings on startup.

[SpookyCitrus]

22 minutes ago, Vengarl said:

I was about to reinstall the drivers, but something tells me it's GPU Tweak II that causes the issues by applying the OC settings on startup.

If you have an unstable overclock then that could be what's causing it.

[Vengarl]

4 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

If you have an unstable overclock then that could be what's causing it.

the "OC Mode" thing on asus gpu tweak II barely pushes the GPU, I don't think you can call this an overclock

[SpookyCitrus]

Just now, Vengarl said:

the "OC Mode" thing on asus gpu tweak II barely pushes the GPU, I don't think you can call this an overclock

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That may be the case but even the slight overclock or the program could still be causing the issue, have you tried turning it off then restarting the computer again and seeing if it still persists? Regardless your issue seems GPU related, there are a few things you can try. 1. Disable any overclocks and overclocking software 2. DDU the GPU drivers and fresh install them using Geforce Experience 3. Reseat the GPU. Do these one at a time testing the system after each step, it's basic GPU diagnosis for that sort of issue.

[Vengarl]

3 hours ago, SpookyCitrus said:

That may be the case but even the slight overclock or the program could still be causing the issue, have you tried turning it off then restarting the computer again and seeing if it still persists? Regardless your issue seems GPU related, there are a few things you can try. 1. Disable any overclocks and overclocking software 2. DDU the GPU drivers and fresh install them using Geforce Experience 3. Reseat the GPU. Do these one at a time testing the system after each step, it's basic GPU diagnosis for that sort of issue.

DDU'd in safe mode, reinstalled the driver with the "clean install" option and turned off GPU tweak's auto select profile on startup just now and I'll see if this fixes it, let's hope for the best  

[Slayer3032]

My GTX 1080 becomes unstable if I install Afterburner or Precision, I think it boosts a little higher when I do that. I could lower my clocks down to what they run normally and that seems to work, but then it's pretty much just bloatware for bumping the memory clock a little. Pascal overclocking is terrible anyways and I oh so miss my old dual bios AMD/ATI cards.

 

I'd maybe give it an "Load Optimized Defaults" in bios, I generally do that the moment I update bios on anything. It just prevents anything funky from old settings, ect.

[Vengarl]

Messing with the drivers didn't work, however I've found something that's consistent: the issue appears only on a cold start, after the PC has been off for a few hours. 

Faulty PSU?  

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

Just now, Vengarl said:

Messing with the drivers didn't work, however I've found something that's consistent: the issue appears only on a cold start, after the PC has been off for a few hours. 

Faulty PSU?  

That is hard to diagnose without a voltage tester and the will to probe. Unless you got a spare PSU kicking around?

[Vengarl]

Just now, Andrew 1337 said:

That is hard to diagnose without a voltage tester and the will to probe. Unless you got a spare PSU kicking around?

 

I got some the PSU I used in the old PC, some bronze rated Coolermaster, 550W

 

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

Just now, Vengarl said:

 

I got some the PSU I used in the old PC, some bronze rated Coolermaster, 550W

 

No harm in trying it, mine as well rule out PSU issues if you can.

[Vengarl]

Will do when I get home from work. Did some googling and I've found a few threads with people claiming uplugging the PSU and holding down the power button for a few seconds solved the issue, seems weird to me 

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

1 minute ago, Vengarl said:

Will do when I get home from work. Did some googling and I've found a few threads with people claiming uplugging the PSU and holding down the power button for a few seconds solved the issue, seems weird to me 

 

All that dose is reset the bios to default on most motherboards, and it may solve the issue if the bios has some out of range or specification settings.

 

A classical example of a double post is as follows:

• Users sets overclock to 8GHz by mistake
• System tries to post
• Fails
• Restarts using stock settings.
• Boots up

From what you have described I doubt this is happening, but again it can't hurt to try.

[Vengarl]

Reset bios to defaults, reseated gpu, save and reboot, all good. Turned it off, and it did it again. I left it for a few seconds just to see what would happen, i had some green squares on the secondary monitor connected via DVI, and then I got a BSOD. 

 

It's also weird how my RAM is set to 2666 by default even if I use 3200 sticks. I switched it to 3200 before posting here but it seems like it has nothing to do with it. 

 

Any other suggestions?

Edited September 19, 2019 by Vengarl

[Vengarl]

Also....is this core voltage normal?

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

1 hour ago, Vengarl said:

Also....is this core voltage normal?

That voltage is fine for auto.

 

Edit: I got no more ideas.

[Vengarl]

Update on the situation: that bluescreen calmed me down, it might just be the current nvidia driver that causes the issues, I'll wait until the next one is rolled out and we'll see if that fixes it or not. I know I could just install an older version of the driver, but I'd rather just use the PC as it is for now because I'm busy as crap. Thanks a lot for the help tho