PC crashes under load

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An ampmeter between the outlet and PC indeed.  However I'm fairly certain that your PC is using less than 75% of that PSU's capacity. 

I'm a very satisfied BeQuiet user myself, but I did have similar problems with my previous one (Dark Power Pro P8 850W).  My first suspicion would be unstable voltage on one of the rails, probably the one that powers your graphics card. 

 

Is it an E9 600W ?  BeQuiet claims that it has 4 independent 12V+ rails.  You could try to use the other PCI power cables.  It certainly won't make things worse. 

[Ie0n]

Welcome in the Be Quiet club, I have the same problems on a 530 watt one

[Kapu]

An ampmeter between the outlet and PC indeed. However I'm fairly certain that your PC is using less than 75% of that PSU's capacity.

I'm a very satisfied BeQuiet user myself, but I did have similar problems with my previous one (Dark Power Pro P8 850W). My first suspicion would be unstable voltage on one of the rails, probably the one that powers your graphics card.

Is it an E9 600W ? BeQuiet claims that it has 4 independent 12V+ rails. You could try to use the other PCI power cables. It certainly won't make things worse.

I don't know what e9 means, sorry ^^.

I have tried to use the other power connectors which didn't change anything.

Could above average voltages coming out of the outlet cause a problem?

I could also try to measure the voltages on the power connectors if that's even possible I just wouldn't know where to measure exactly.

[rossbunting35]

I don't know what e9 means, sorry ^^.

I have tried to use the other power connectors which didn't change anything.

Could above average voltages coming out of the outlet cause a problem?

I could also try to measure the voltages on the power connectors if that's even possible I just wouldn't know where to measure exactly.

Most psu's should be able to withstand ordinary fluctuations without effecting your system, otherwise my rig would of been toast long ago lol. Lower your graphics settings to see if it's a problem when the gpu is under heavy load like fur mark. Another thing you could try is changing the pcie 16x slot your gpu is in, it's a long shot but might as well give it a try.

[Kapu]

Most psu's should be able to withstand ordinary fluctuations without effecting your system, otherwise my rig would of been toast long ago lol. Lower your graphics settings to see if it's a problem when the gpu is under heavy load like fur mark. Another thing you could try is changing the pcie 16x slot your gpu is in, it's a long shot but might as well give it a try.

 

I decreased the graphics settings drastically (Borderlands 2) and my system didn't crash. If that's in any way helpful

[rossbunting35]

It' sounds like something is up with your gpu imo, if it was power supply then I think it would just shot the pc down, not crash and then restart. The only way to be sure would be to try it out on somebody else's rig and see if you get the same result. Sorry there isn't a quick fix. Anybody else got any opinions?

[Kapu]

It' sounds like something is up with your gpu imo, if it was power supply then I think it would just shot the pc down, not crash and then restart. The only way to be sure would be to try it out on somebody else's rig and see if you get the same result. Sorry there isn't a quick fix. Anybody else got any opinions?

I don't have anybody with a system I could put it in around

[Kapu]

So I measured the power my PC is using and it didn't even use 300W at the time it crashed (running Furmark). I guess that means it's not a problem with my PSU. I'm still hoping it's a software problem. Any Ideas what  the cause might be?

[ind3x]

I've just RMA'ed my card having a similar issue actually,

I crashed in a bunch of games, but not in stresstests like furmark.

My GPU is (was?) an 1½ year old GTX 660.

I don't know what was wrong with it, i tried different harddisks, and i am pretty sure that it isn't my power supply as it worked fine with my older system powered by AMD, thus having higher power requirements (in stress tests at least)

 

What version of your graphics driver do you have? i would really like to know this

[Kapu]

I've just RMA'ed my card having a similar issue actually,

I crashed in a bunch of games, but not in stresstests like furmark.

My GPU is (was?) an 1½ year old GTX 660.

I don't know what was wrong with it, i tried different harddisks, and i am pretty sure that it isn't my power supply as it worked fine with my older system powered by AMD, thus having higher power requirements (in stress tests at least)

 

What version of your graphics driver do you have? i would really like to know this

 

My driver version is 344.11

 

If I'd have to vrm my card wouldn't be able to play video games till I get a new one D: 

But oh well I can't really do that now either

[ind3x]

Have you tried older drivers?

[Kapu]

Have you tried older drivers?

 

Not yet. Should i try? Should I only downgrade my graphics drivers or others too?

[ind3x]

just the graphics drivers

[HannahLewis]

try running a stresstest without your GPU installed and when possible try it with another card!

[xZora]

I'm having a similar problem, except mine will just shut down without starting itself back up, and nothing is shown in the event logs other than that the system didn't shut down cleanly.

 

i7-4790k (base clock)

EVGA GTX 780 (base clock)

ASUS Maximus VII Hero

Corsair Dominator Platinum 2133 8GB x2

Corsair AX860i

 

Voltage monitor relays adequate information, there's no drop in voltage or any over voltage occurring.

 

Running AIDA64 for CPU/GPU stressing does fine, temps are all okay, and I can run that over night.

Running Firestrike for GPU only will result in a crash.

Running WoW/DotA without vsync on will result in a crash.

Running WoW/DotA with vsync on will not result in a crash.

Running the GPU in both pci slots will maintain the same results.

 

I think it's my card.

[HannahLewis]

.

 

I think it's my card.

 

It almost has to be.

[xZora]

It almost has to be.

 

So I turned off my second monitor (not that I was including it in the tests, it was just there for browsers/streams) and ran all 3dmark tests again, and was finally able to finish all of them.

 

What do you think that means?

[Hellbeast58]

find your logs to see if its the driver crashing, check your bios for surge protection and turn it off

 

good luck.

[xZora]

find your logs to see if its the driver crashing, check your bios for surge protection and turn it off

 

good luck.

 

The driver isn't crashing, the event logs say that the computer was not cleanly shut down.

 

I'll try disabling the anti-surge and running everything normally.

[Hellbeast58]

The driver isn't crashing, the event logs say that the computer was not cleanly shut down.

 

I'll try disabling the anti-surge and running everything normally.

 

ok sounds good, let us know the results

[xZora]

ok sounds good, let us know the results

 

I was able to run Furmark with no issues, both monitors, anti-surge in the bios off.

 

I would say improvement?

[Hellbeast58]

I was able to run Furmark with no issues, both monitors, anti-surge in the bios off.

 

I would say improvement?

agreed, try something more intensive i guess, like for both cpu and gpu, or play something like BF4, w/e you got that can do this

[Kapu]

agreed, try something more intensive i guess, like for both cpu and gpu, or play something like BF4, w/e you got that can do this

Should i try that too?

[Kapu]

I deinstalled my graphics card (physically removed it) and ran my PC without it. That worked fine and my PC didn't crash while playing (Borderlands 2). It lagged terribly though (obviously). 

 

But after reinstalling my graphics card I ran into a new major problem. My PC doesn't detect my graphics card anymore and I can now only run it with the integrated graphics. I have already tried deinstalling all graphics drivers with DDU. That didn't help either. The gpu doesn't show up in the device manager either. 

I tried connecting the stock cooler to the graphics card to see whether it turned on and it actually did. 

 

Any ideas?

[rossbunting35]

Did you try putting it in another pcie slot?