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Hello guys, I am in need of help!

Not long ago I decided to upgrade to windows 10, after I downloaded it my pc started to run into some problems: it started crashing, the screen would freeze with pink artifacts all over the place and the sound would continue for a bit and I would get display driver kernel errors and such.

I noticed the pc was only recognizing 24gigs of ram, which was weird because I have 32, so I took the motherboard out of the case and started to test each stick individually and different configurations then all of the sudden they all started to be recognized again. After that the ram issue was fixed ( no idea why that happened ) but the problem persisted and looking online I found it might be the gpu, it wasnt letting my pc even turn on at some points, so I decided to put it in the oven and it helped, for a while ( 1 week ) then it falied again,so I sent my evga gtx 780 6gb edition to repair.

btw I did try everything I could, reverting back to windows  8.1, completely removing all the display drivers and installing older ones ( tried about 23 drivers I think ).

The guy let the gpu run in benchmarks and games for 1 week and nothing happened, it was working flawlessly there and over here the gts 450 I had lying around was working just fine too. He sent it back to me and it just wouldnt work.

I started to think it was the psu messing around with the gpu, and a repair man told me it was the psu through the phone. What is weird is: if it is the psu why would the gpu work for 1 week after being put in the oven for 4 minutes ?

and why would another gpu ( I know it consumes less power ) not run into the same issues ?

Right now the pc wont load windows, as soon as the windows 10 logo goes on the screen and starts to load the pc freezes and restarts if the 780 is plugged in, if the gts 450 is in it works just fine. Any suggestions ? the 780 was out of the warranty period and I was desperate since I use this pc for university work so I had to try the oven, and no it didnt damage capacitors or resistors.

I also read on the nvidia forums that windows 10 was bricking some gpus, so I don't even know what to think or try anymore.

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3 minutes ago, Melenthra said:

Hello guys, I am in need of help!

Not long ago I decided to upgrade to windows 10, after I downloaded it my pc started to run into some problems: it started crashing, the screen would freeze with pink artifacts all over the place and the sound would continue for a bit and I would get display driver kernel errors and such.

I noticed the pc was only recognizing 24gigs of ram, which was weird because I have 32, so I took the motherboard out of the case and started to test each stick individually and different configurations then all of the sudden they all started to be recognized again. After that the ram issue was fixed ( no idea why that happened ) but the problem persisted and looking online I found it might be the gpu, it wasnt letting my pc even turn on at some points, so I decided to put it in the oven and it helped, for a while ( 1 week ) then it falied again,so I sent my evga gtx 780 6gb edition to repair.

btw I did try everything I could, reverting back to windows  8.1, completely removing all the display drivers and installing older ones ( tried about 23 drivers I think ).

The guy let the gpu run in benchmarks and games for 1 week and nothing happened, it was working flawlessly there and over here the gts 450 I had lying around was working just fine too. He sent it back to me and it just wouldnt work.

I started to think it was the psu messing around with the gpu, and a repair man told me it was the psu through the phone. What is weird is: if it is the psu why would the gpu work for 1 week after being put in the oven for 4 minutes ?

and why would another gpu ( I know it consumes less power ) not run into the same issues ?

Right now the pc wont load windows, as soon as the windows 10 logo goes on the screen and starts to load the pc freezes and restarts if the 780 is plugged in, if the gts 450 is in it works just fine. Any suggestions ? the 780 was out of the warranty period and I was desperate since I use this pc for university work so I had to try the oven, and no it didnt damage capacitors or resistors.

I also read on the nvidia forums that windows 10 was bricking some gpus, so I don't even know what to think or try anymore.

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3 minutes ago, App4that said:

Everything works until it doesn't. You should know that. Have you tried using the iGPU yet?

Everything works until it doesnt, ok, dont understand what thats supposed to mean. Yes I have tried the igpu and it works, booting the pc in safe mode with the gtx 780 also works.

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Whether it's the power supply or the graphics card you can't make the argument it was working yesterday. If the iGPU works then it's pointing to the graphics card. If the graphics card work in another PC then it points to the power supply.  

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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2 minutes ago, App4that said:

It's your semantics, a bit confusing. I agree with the advice you've been given that it's the power supply. What brand and model is it?

Sorry english is not my first language. I already posted, its an enermax Platimax 850w psu. if its the psu how can everything work fine even other gpus ? ( I also tested a gtx 560ti and it worked fine )

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18 minutes ago, Melenthra said:

Everything works until it doesnt, ok, dont understand what thats supposed to mean. Yes I have tried the igpu and it works, booting the pc in safe mode with the gtx 780 also works.

It means: Things work until they break and don't work anymore. 

Regardless, the problem happened right after you switched to windows 10? Did you, by any chance, remember to update ALL of your drivers to the new, Windows 10 versions? (I only ask because you said that there are no problems in safe mode)

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1 minute ago, straight_stewie said:

It means: Things work until they break and don't work anymore. 

Regardless, the problem happened right after you switched to windows 10? Did you, by any chance, remember to update ALL of your drivers to the new, Windows 10 versions?

I understood the meaning, just didnt see how it fits here. Anyway, yes, I updated everything, even formatted and reinstalled windows 8.1 and updated all the drivers to windows 8.1. Didn't work, formatted and installed windows 10 and updated all the drivers, didnt work again, uninstalled all the drivers and tested older ones on both windows 8.1 and 10, didnt work. And yes, the problem started on the exact moment I installed windows 10.

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9 minutes ago, Melenthra said:

I understood the meaning, just didnt see how it fits here. Anyway, yes, I updated everything, even formatted and reinstalled windows 8.1 and updated all the drivers to windows 8.1. Didn't work, formatted and installed windows 10 and updated all the drivers, didnt work again, uninstalled all the drivers and tested older ones on both windows 8.1 and 10, didnt work. And yes, the problem started on the exact moment I installed windows 10.

Something doesn't add up here.  Are you absolutely sure that this problem started the very first time you booted up windows 10? Not later and not before? I only ask because this thread seems to be full of conflicting information.

Regardless, if you are telling the truth, and moving back to the OS and drivers that did work didn't fix the problem, it's either the PSU or GPU, here you said something confusing:

17 minutes ago, Melenthra said:

the gpu working on other pcs and other gpus working on this psu is whats making me make this post to ask for suggestions on what to do.

Do you have another (known to be working) GPU with roughly the same energy requirements as your GTX 780? What all other cards do you have access to that are known to be working correctly? Preferably access to another GTX 780?

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What is the conflicting information ? Could be the way I wrote because english is not my primary language. But yeah, I installed windows 10 and it did mess everything up after like, not even one hour of use, and in that hour I was trying to fix the ram issue. and no, not with the same energy requirements, only the gts 450 and the gtx 560ti.

I sent the gpu to a guy that repairs it, before trying to repair it he decided to stress it to see what was happening, the gpu worked perfectly with him so he sent it back to me, while he was with the 780, I was using the gts 450 and the gtx 560ti here and nothing was going work, the ram issue didnt come back either.

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7 minutes ago, Melenthra said:

I sent the gpu to a guy that repairs it, before trying to repair it he decided to stress it to see what was happening, the gpu worked perfectly with him so he sent it back to me, while he was with the 780, I was using the gts 450 and the gtx 560ti here and nothing was going work, the ram issue didnt come back either.

Well, then I believe that @App4that was right:

25 minutes ago, App4that said:

I agree with the advice you've been given that it's the power supply.


Do you have access to another power supply that you can test your card with just to be sure? Maybe a friends machine or something? At this point though, I'm 90% sure that it's the PSU. If you put your 780 in another machine, or use another PSU and the problem goes away, then I'd be 100% sure. 

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Sadly I don't, at least not atm, Ill have to look around for someone that can help, I was hoping it was a driver issue or anything like that, just anything that didn't mean I had to buy something new since I don't even have the money to send it for repair or to buy another psu. Thanks for the replies tho. Ill look around for a psu.

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