Pc freezes when running gpu intensive tasks.

[Tim-BC]

This is my first time on this forum so if I seem rude or stupid i'm sorry.

Let me tell you a story: I bought a second handed pc (yes the risks ) for 280€ and it featured: i5 3470, 8gb GEIL ddr3 1066Mhz ram, asrock h61m, gt420, corsair vs450 psu, 750gb 7200rpm hdd.

It was all built in an medion case wich he took al the parts out and put the listed above back in.

So i wanted to use it for gaming and put an msi gtx 750ti 2gb oc in.

So it ran fine for 3+ months. Then i force-closed it (hold the power button in) because it didnt want to shut down, the next day i booted it up everything ran fine but windows said my hard drive needed an check so it did and rebooted, it asked again but this time when it rebooted windows crashed.

I installed an new copy of windows 10 and the drivers with it.

Everything looked to be fine until i booted up gta V and it crashed after 15 minutes, displaying nvidia driver stopped working and has recovered, i found a 'fix' online but it still didnt work.

The next day i took the side panel off and it ran fine for 45 minutes and then it crashed again.

So I took msi afterburner and furmark to check the temps, it was on 58℃ and crashed.

So i thought it couldnt be the gpu temps.

So i dont know what it is, the psu, cpu, ram maybe even the motherboard.

Any suggestions/fixes would make me very happy!

I wish you an nice day.

[desertcomputer]

Is the GPU overclocked?

[Tim-BC]

Factory overclocked yes. @MrUnknownEMC

[Sack]

This is my first time on this forum so if I seem rude or stupid i'm sorry.

Let me tell you a story: I bought a second handed pc (yes the risks ) for 280€ and it featured: i5 3470, 8gb GEIL ddr3 1066Mhz ram, asrock h61m, gt420, corsair vs450 psu, 750gb 7200rpm hdd.

It was all built in an medion case wich he took al the parts out and put the listed above back in.

So i wanted to use it for gaming and put an msi gtx 750ti 2gb oc in.

So it ran fine for 3+ months. Then i force-closed it (hold the power button in) because it didnt want to shut down, the next day i booted it up everything ran fine but windows said my hard drive needed an check so it did and rebooted, it asked again but this time when it rebooted windows crashed.

I installed an new copy of windows 10 and the drivers with it.

Everything looked to be fine until i booted up gta V and it crashed after 15 minutes, displaying nvidia driver stopped working and has recovered, i found a 'fix' online but it still didnt work.

The next day i took the side panel off and it ran fine for 45 minutes and then it crashed again.

So I took msi afterburner and furmark to check the temps, it was on 58℃ and crashed.

So i thought it couldnt be the gpu temps.

So i dont know what it is, the psu, cpu, ram maybe even the motherboard.

Any suggestions/fixes would make me very happy!

I wish you an nice day.

Overclocked? reset them and try again, could you get another PSU to test?

[Tim-BC]

@Sack so i should underclock it? I havent oc it came that way out of the box. I do not have an psu to test, i read that the vs series of corsair arent that good. I could buy another one but i aint buying one if i am not assured that it is fixed (aint rich or something). If it helps, when it crashed it has colored dots on the game/stresstest.

[Sack]

@Sack so i should underclock it? I havent oc it came that way out of the box. I do not have an psu to test, i read that the vs series of corsair arent that good. I could buy another one but i aint buying one if i am not assured that it is fixed (aint rich or something). If it helps, when it crashed it has colored dots on the game/stresstest.

No don't underclock it, honestly I read about a similar issue yesterday, and the fan curve on the GPU in combination with a bad PSU seemed to be the culprit, though this person had a spare PSU on hand.

[Tim-BC]

@Sack, do you know if the psu he had on hand fixed the problem? I already set an custom fan curve to ramp up the fans, it didnt work.

Btw on a budget will the Antec VP500PC work?

[Tim-BC]

@Sack I just did an test until it crashed with the voltages monitored. It was spot on and almost too low.

http://prntscr.com/9rb9mc

Here you can see, the temps didnt exceed 61 degrees celsius.

[Sack]

@Sack, do you know if the psu he had on hand fixed the problem? I already set an custom fan curve to ramp up the fans, it didnt work.

Btw on a budget will the Antec VP500PC work?

It would work fine yes, however before you buy anything, are there any power saving features for the PCI-E? He mentioned that things got better after he disabled some power saving features. The difficult thing here is that it could be the GPU, the MOBO or the PSU that in my eyes could be the culprits...

[Tim-BC]

@Sack I checked the voltages on the spu and it got as low as 11,458 volts under load. Thats quite low. I think its the psu, i hate power saving options and everything always runs on max performance mode on my pc. I think i will buy this one https://www.afuture.nl/productview.php?productID=1106979 

It has japanese capacitators and it seems to be good.

[Tim-BC]

@Sack, i just ran a test with the psu outside my case. It freezes. I have a video and a picture of it: http://we.tl/qcTbSHs5Yd 

[Sack]

@Sack, i just ran a test with the psu outside my case. It freezes. I have a video and a picture of it: http://we.tl/qcTbSHs5Yd 

I'm getting a 404 error.

[Tim-BC]

@Sack strange i get one aswell, they should be valid for a week but ok. I will re-send them as soon as i get home, i'm heading off to school now so i will be back in about 5 hours or so.

[Tim-BC]

I'm getting a 404 error.

Here you go: http://we.tl/4A8MGsdpz4

I hope it helps. 

[Sack]

Here you go: http://we.tl/4A8MGsdpz4

I hope it helps. 

Just upload it to youtube and I'll take a look.

[Tim-BC]

Just upload it to youtube and I'll take a look.

That can be done. I will do that.

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

My girlfriends PC did that. Same error.nVidia driver stops working all the time. I replaced MOBO+CPU+ram and no more error. Honestly i think it was the MOBO. Psu still the old one and working.

Hope you can borrow another PC to test psu, GPU,ram and maybe CPU on. If you are lucky det for bad news.