Nvidia or PSU?

[whm1974]

I first had this issue with my GTX 970 dGPU, and now the same issue with the GTX 760 I put in. Namely when playing any Games that are 3D, and even in Salt and Sanctuary, some Majors Areas do the same thing, the screen goes dark and I have to reboot the Computer. But I get Screen back on.

 

I tested the 970 last year with my TV HDMI and the same issue. Now the 760 is doing this. This happens with both Windows and Linux. I could simply buy whatever dGPU that is available, but I wonder if the same thing will happen as will with the replacement.

 

I tried cleaning the case out, but no luck. 2D games like SMAC work fine. However I'm thinking that the problem is the PSU or even possibly with the Motherboard. I do have a Spare EVGA Bronze PSU I can try.

 

Oh, the Computer including the 760 is from 2013. The Haswell i5-4670 iGPU works fine, but slow.

[JamesTheFolf]

29 minutes ago, whm1974 said:

I first had this issue with my GTX 970 dGPU, and now the same issue with the GTX 760 I put in. Namely when playing any Games that are 3D, and even in Salt and Sanctuary, some Majors Areas do the same thing, the screen goes dark and I have to reboot the Computer. But I get Screen back on.

 

I tested the 970 last year with my TV HDMI and the same issue. Now the 760 is doing this. This happens with both Windows and Linux. I could simply buy whatever dGPU that is available, but I wonder if the same thing will happen as will with the replacement.

 

I tried cleaning the case out, but no luck. 2D games like SMAC work fine. However I'm thinking that the problem is the PSU or even possibly with the Motherboard. I do have a Spare EVGA Bronze PSU I can try.

 

Oh, the Computer including the 760 is from 2013. The Haswell i5-4670 iGPU works fine, but slow.

I'd try your spare psu, cause that does sound like the PSU is failing.

[whm1974]

23 minutes ago, jrhaberland said:

I'd try your spare psu, cause that does sound like the PSU is failing.

Well I already have an extra PSU, and avoid buying overpriced dGPUs. The only problem is if I need to remove anything else other then the PSU along with the removable cables.

[whm1974]

So now I'm having trouble removing the 24 pin power connector to the Ma inboard. I hope I can do so without damaging the socket or worse, the pins.

[whm1974]

Fixed. Granted I had to break the clip on the ATX power connector, but on once lift and rock it on the sides it worked.

 

Some trouble putting to replacement PSU. Now to test the dGPU.

[whm1974]

So I redid all the Power connectors and added the extra ones to the PSU and the system still does the same when I'm trying to play a 3D game.

 

The Issue does this with both dGPUs. Either both of them going bad, or it is the motherboard/CPU.

[whm1974]

Could this be possibly a Motherboard problem. How do I tell?

[whm1974]

The Issue for now is fixed. I was able to play Fallout Classic by setting the resolution to 1024x768. Got bored and while tying to play Fallout 2 Classic, it start losing the display signal as well. But no way to set resolution.

 

Anyway in Manjaro Linux, I had to  commit  Nevoue with # in the right config file and reboot. I also ended up removing everything Nvidia as well and now Games I try so far now work. But a bit slow.

 

Rather Strange that is nothing wrong with the Card itself but a major driver issue? However my GTX 970 last started doing this first, but putting back in the GTX 760 fix this at the time.

 

Now I am going to have remove the New Nvidia Drivers and go back to default Windows 10 ones when I installed the OS.