Distressed, desperate, Impossible.

[GIRTHQUAKE]

I am stressed out, and just desperate. I've never seen anything like this.

I started having a problem where my computer would turn off during games. They would be running completely fine, no stuttering or lag and then boom, graphics card turns off. I put my graphics card in another computer, and it ran fine, so I kind of guessed maybe it was my motherboard. I decided I wanted to upgrade anyways, so I'd go ahead and replace it, and get a new CPU since my i5 3470 socket 1151 was a bit out of date.

I got an i7 4790k and an MSI Krait Z97S motherboard to replace my i5 3470 and Asus P8Z77-V Pro.

Well I still had some weird bugs every now and then, but it ran okay. Then suddenly my graphics card started shutting off in GTA V and some other games. So I went ahead and said screw it. I replaced my R9 270x with an R9 380.

It ran good for a month or so and then I decided I wanted to run rust, within 5 minutes of running the game, graphics card would shut down, black screens. Just like before.

I'm getting super stressed at this point, because I'm out of money, and have been. I've blown every penny I have on replacement parts. I start trying to monitor my voltages, I don't see anything weird, but the recordings stop right before the shut downs. I buy a new power supply, and replace my Corsair 750 watt psu with a 750 watt EVGA one. Finally I've solved my problem.

Until several days later when I'm playing battlefield, and I noticed at random times, my framerate drops hard. then recovers. I try playing Rust, and within minutes, my GPU shuts off. At this point I've realized I can recreate it by simply hitting run on Furmark. The moment I hit GPU stress test, the whole graphics card turns off.
 

I decide I haven't tried a fresh windows install yet, and should have. So I do it. Fixes nothing. I unplug all my drives besides the boot drive, nothing. I replace all my RAM. Nothing. I start swapping parts, i5-3470, i7-4790k, i5-4570, 16 gigs 4x4 corsair memory, 8 gigs, 2x4 gig Hynix memory, R9 270x, R9 380, R7 260, Corsair PSU, EVGA PSU, Asus mobo, MSI mobo, nothing matters. Now sometimes on the MSI board it wont detect that anything is even in a PCIe slot, and it doesn't matter which slot its in on either board. The Asus one now randomly says shutting down at the bios for overcharge on USB, sometimes it says it, sometimes it doesn't. Ive unplugged all chasis USB, unplugged and swapped out all USB devices, booted without any USB devices, just like the MSI no PCIe card detected it's completely random.

I've used different power cables, plugged in to different power strips, plugged in to different sockets in the house. I've tried running without any fans besides CPU one.

I just have no idea what to do. I've tried everything, I've replaced everything, I even tried in a different tower, I've plunged myself in to debt on parts and Have enough for two full machines but have 0 combination of parts that work. When it decides to boot, I can pretty much do regular PC stuff, it's only if I try to run demanding games or if I run furmark. And even then, sometimes it will run either of those with seemingly no issue (rarely).

Please, i'm desperate for someone to blow me away with something super obvious, I'm just worn out. And I can not afford to just build a 3rd computer.

Side note I forgot to mention, I've also tried different driver versions for pretty much every device in my PC.

It's also not heat related. I have adequate cooling and monitor my temps. My GPU doesn't really go over 68c and my CPUs will occasionally break 50c tops at 100% load.


So quick summary. Graphics card keeps shutting off and having weird boot issues. I've replaced, CPU, RAM, Motherboard, PSU, GPU, OS, Case, fans, Power strip, power cable, wall socket, drivers with no fix.

[Bananasplit_00]

might be bad wall power in the entire house. try at a friends place if you can. if thats what it is then its not the parts

[GIRTHQUAKE]

4 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

might be bad wall power in the entire house. try at a friends place if you can. if thats what it is then its not the parts

My roommate is running a very similar system in his room without issue.(i5, R9 290) I tried running my PC at his desk, same issue.

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, GIRTHQUAKE said:

My roommate is running a very similar system in his room without issue.(i5, R9 290) I tried running my PC at his desk, same issue.

can you try a in a diffirent building? or maby you just got insainly unlycky and got several bad cards?... hope someone can find a solution beause this must really suck

[GIRTHQUAKE]

3 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

can you try a in a diffirent building? or maby you just got insainly unlycky and got several bad cards?... hope someone can find a solution beause this must really suck

Not during the work week unfortunately. I could maybe try to get it to someones house on the weekend, but if my roommate's computer is running fine, I don't see why mine wouldn't honestly. His older i5 and 290 are more power hungry than what I've got.

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, GIRTHQUAKE said:

Not during the work week unfortunately. I could maybe try to get it to someones house on the weekend, but if my roommate's computer is running fine, I don't see why mine wouldn't honestly. His older i5 and 290 are more power hungry than what I've got.

ask him if you could swap the power supply with him and run a test, that might be a problem

[GIRTHQUAKE]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

ask him if you could swap the power supply with him and run a test, that might be a problem

I've already used 3 power supplies,

3 confirmed (in other systems at work) power supplies

Edited May 25, 2016 by GIRTHQUAKE

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, GIRTHQUAKE said:

I've already used 3 power supplies

yah i know but i would still try it. he is doing fine with it so why shouldent it work with your pc  you never know what might work

[GIRTHQUAKE]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

yah i know but i would still try it. he is doing fine with it so why shouldent it work with your pc  you never know what might work

I'll do it when I have some time later and report back. I expect unfortunately I know what the results will be. Someone kill me, it hurts to live.

[WkdPaul]

Have you tried pulling everything out of the case? (happened before where the case was the cause of some sort of a short)

 

Take everything to a minimum, OS drive only, "cardboard case", keyboard and mouse only (maybe even take the ones from your roommate) and then start from there ...

[GIRTHQUAKE]

6 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

yah i know but i would still try it. he is doing fine with it so why shouldent it work with your pc  you never know what might work

Didn't work.

 

3 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

Have you tried pulling everything out of the case? (happened before where the case was the cause of some sort of a short)

 

Take everything to a minimum, OS drive only, "cardboard case", keyboard and mouse only (maybe even take the ones from your roommate) and then start from there ...

2 Different cases + Out of case tests. Bare minimum windows installs, different mice and keyboard.

[Bananasplit_00]

1 hour ago, GIRTHQUAKE said:

Didn't work.

 

2 Different cases + Out of case tests. Bare minimum windows installs, different mice and keyboard.

well shit. i really cant think of anything but the rare case that you have just gotten broken gear  

[WkdPaul]

1 hour ago, GIRTHQUAKE said:

Didn't work.

 

2 Different cases + Out of case tests. Bare minimum windows installs, different mice and keyboard.

Logically there's something wrong somewhere, so it's whatever left that is common to all those "builds", my guess;

 

-SATA data cables;

-HDD/SSD;

-CPU fan;

-CPU cooler;

 

Like I said, something is wrong but from what you're saying you have DOA part (MSI motherboard not detecting anything in PCIe).

 

Another way to test this out would be to find a friend that have a similar build that works and try to "swap-in" one part at a time to see if his build will start having the same issues.

[GIRTHQUAKE]

4 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

Logically there's something wrong somewhere, so it's whatever left that is common to all those "builds", my guess;

 

-SATA data cables;

-HDD/SSD;

-CPU fan;

-CPU cooler;

 

Like I said, something is wrong but from what you're saying you have DOA part (MSI motherboard not detecting anything in PCIe).

 

Another way to test this out would be to find a friend that have a similar build that works and try to "swap-in" one part at a time to see if his build will start having the same issues.

I've swapped out all the parts in to other machines and tested pretty much everything. I haven't tried sata cables, I guess I'll try to find some spare ones and see what happens. I'd be so relieved.