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Kazz10
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HI, I have an interesting problem and I believe it is the GPU (AMD 290x MSI Lighting) I begin playing a game, and I've watch its temperature on the screen, if it reaches 74c-77c the whole computer locks up. I made sure all the drivers are updated across the board, and I believe the thermal throttle limit for this card is in the 80s. The only game i can seem to play if i crank the fan speed up all the fan is Dead space 1. Its crashed on DOOM, Alien Iso and more, but was playing them fine a year ago. Plus I'll mention too I updated the OS to windows 10 in September, so last year it was Win 7 OS.

 

Whats going on? Also hope I put this in correct section too...

 

CPU: AMD A10 Richland (not over clock)

RAM 16 GB

7 TB of storage

GPU 290X MSI lighting (not over clock)

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3 hours ago, Kazz10 said:

HI, I have an interesting problem and I believe it is the GPU (AMD 290x MSI Lighting) I begin playing a game, and I've watch its temperature on the screen, if it reaches 74c-77c the whole computer locks up. I made sure all the drivers are updated across the board, and I believe the thermal throttle limit for this card is in the 80s. The only game i can seem to play if i crank the fan speed up all the fan is Dead space 1. Its crashed on DOOM, Alien Iso and more, but was playing them fine a year ago. Plus I'll mention too I updated the OS to windows 10 in September, so last year it was Win 7 OS.

 

Whats going on? Also hope I put this in correct section too...

 

CPU: AMD A10 Richland (not over clock)

RAM 16 GB

7 TB of storage

GPU 290X MSI lighting (not over clock)

 

Thermal throttle for that card is actually 94*C / 95*C.

The GPU core reaches 74*C ~ 77*C, which is fine.

 

What are the VRAM and VRM temperatures on the GPU?

The GPU core might be running with fine temperatures, but the VRAM chips or the VRM could be cooking itself.

 

What is the temperature for your CPU as well?

What cooler are you using with the A10 APU?

 

Did you upgrade existing Windows 7 to Windows 10 ... or did you do a clean install of Windows 10?

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12 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

Thermal throttle for that card is actually 94*C / 95*C.

The GPU core reaches 74*C ~ 77*C, which is fine.

 

What are the VRAM and VRM temperatures on the GPU?

The GPU core might be running with fine temperatures, but the VRAM chips or the VRM could be cooking itself.

 

What is the temperature for your CPU as well?

What cooler are you using with the A10 APU?

 

Did you upgrade existing Windows 7 to Windows 10 ... or did you do a clean install of Windows 10?

I'll have to run and see what the VRAM get too. I have a cooler master V8 on the cpu, but again ill have to run it as see. I was a upgrade from 7 to 10

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1 hour ago, -rascal- said:

 

Thermal throttle for that card is actually 94*C / 95*C.

The GPU core reaches 74*C ~ 77*C, which is fine.

 

What are the VRAM and VRM temperatures on the GPU?

The GPU core might be running with fine temperatures, but the VRAM chips or the VRM could be cooking itself.

 

What is the temperature for your CPU as well?

What cooler are you using with the A10 APU?

 

Did you upgrade existing Windows 7 to Windows 10 ... or did you do a clean install of Windows 10?

ok so it just happened again, the cpu was below 50 and the Vram capped at 62

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2 hours ago, Kazz10 said:

ok so it just happened again, the cpu was below 50 and the Vram capped at 62

 

Okay, so CPU temperature doesn't seem to be a problem.

 

What program / software are you using to monitor temperatures?

You might need to use MSi Afterburner, or something similar...what is the VRM (Voltage Regulation Modules) temperatures on the graphics card?

 

Just curious, that motherboard are you using (make and mode)?

Which specific AMD A10 APU (e.g. A10-6800K) ?

 

Now I'm wondering if Windows reports and errors when it crashes...

In Windows 'Event Viewer' >> 'Windows Logs' >> 'System'

Do you see any warnings / errors around the time when the game / system crashes?

 

Also WhoCrashed is a little application that can read / interpret dump files that Windows creates.

We might be able to get some more clues there...

https://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed

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On 5/27/2020 at 1:07 AM, -rascal- said:

 

Okay, so CPU temperature doesn't seem to be a problem.

 

What program / software are you using to monitor temperatures?

You might need to use MSi Afterburner, or something similar...what is the VRM (Voltage Regulation Modules) temperatures on the graphics card?

 

Just curious, that motherboard are you using (make and mode)?

Which specific AMD A10 APU (e.g. A10-6800K) ?

 

Now I'm wondering if Windows reports and errors when it crashes...

In Windows 'Event Viewer' >> 'Windows Logs' >> 'System'

Do you see any warnings / errors around the time when the game / system crashes?

 

Also WhoCrashed is a little application that can read / interpret dump files that Windows creates.

We might be able to get some more clues there...

https://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed

Sorry for delay

 

AMD A10 6800k: yes

I do use msi afterburner and i use the lighting fan controller too.

the MB is a ASUS A88x Plus 

 

I made a noob mistake and sent you the vrm temp not the VRAM... But when it crashes again ill report that.

 

I downloaded Who crashed and it found no dump files.

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Sorry for delay

 

AMD A10 6800k: yes

I do use msi afterburner and i use the lighting fan controller too.

the MB is a ASUS A88x Plus 

 

I made a noob mistake and sent you the vrm temp not the VRAM... But when it crashes again ill report that.

 

I downloaded Who crashed and it found no dump files.

 

Ah okay, thanks for the CPU + motherboard specs.

Doesn't seem to be a temperature issue.

 

From the *looks* of it, this is more of a software problem -- the upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 might have some complications.

Both my AM3+ / FX-8350 and Z97 / i5-4690K systems did run into odd software issues down the line after upgrading from Windows 7 to 10.

 

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