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Computer Crashes to Solid Colored Screen

tvolk131
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So recently I have started having this problem where my computer will lock up unexpectedly. When this happens, my screen turns a solid color which is different every time. My initial thought was that it was just a software issue, so I tried a fresh install of Windows 7 assuming that would fix it, but it did not. In addition to the screen turning a certain color, my audio sometimes continues running properly, but sometimes freezes or even just turns off. I see no correlation between what I am doing before it locks and what happens to the audio, however the system usually crashes shortly AFTER playing a graphically intense game. I've tried many of the obvious things (obvious to me, at least) and so far I've gotten just about nowhere.

 

Specs:

OS - Windows 7 Home Premium

Motherboard - Gigabyte 970A-UD3P

CPU - AMD FX 8350

Graphics Card - GTX 770

Power Supply - Ultra x4 @ 1050 Watts

RAM: 2x Patriot Viper Xtreme 8gb Stick (16 gb total)

 

Things I Have Tried:

Reformatted and installed a fresh OS with the latest drivers

Ran Memtest the whole way through with no errors

Swapped out PSU

Reset BIOS

Put new BIOS battery in

Launched Bluescreenview, but no crashes were listed

 

So if it's a hardware issue, it must be the CPU, Motherboard, or Graphics Card. I have tried swapping out the graphics card and that has worked so far, but I also put the potentially broken graphics card into another computer and so far that has worked too, so I think that it's just taking longer than usual to crash. I'll keep this post up to date if any new information arises. At this point I'm assuming that my motherboard is bad, but if anyone has any suggestions I'm more than willing to try them out. Thanks a lot!

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Do you have any other PCI cards installed? I had an issue on mine that I believe is fixed now by removing my Firewire card. I didn't get the funny colours, but I did get the audio freeze and screen freeze (or a BSOD) and I had to manually reboot. I was about to send back the MoBo and as I was taking everything apart, realised that I had this firewire card plugged in.... Since I've removed it, I don't think I've encountered the same issue... 

 

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underclock your GPU a touch. might be instability with the 8350.

if that's the case you lost the silicon lottery

 

i'd also make sure GPU drivers are up to date.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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underclock your GPU a touch. might be instability with the 8350.

if that's the case you lost the silicon lottery

 

i'd also make sure GPU drivers are up to date.

It's worked flawlessly for a year and a half, but I guess I can try that. Also, I have gotten the latest drivers straight from Nvidia.

 

It may be a PSU issue. TTry a different PSU and see what happens.

Did you read the whole post?

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Do you have any other PCI cards installed? I had an issue on mine that I believe is fixed now by removing my Firewire card. I didn't get the funny colours, but I did get the audio freeze and screen freeze (or a BSOD) and I had to manually reboot. I was about to send back the MoBo and as I was taking everything apart, realised that I had this firewire card plugged in.... Since I've removed it, I don't think I've encountered the same issue... 

I actually used to have a few other interface cards, but I have since taken them out and the problem persists. Strangely enough, I have never gotten the BSOD since this problem started occurring.

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