PC keeps crashing when running graphic intensive tasks. (Gaming)

[mrchow19910319]

My pc is keep crashing since yesterday. I thought it was just a random reboot.

But it showed a pattern , every time I opened starcraft 2, the screen turns black and pc reboot itself.

Just now it rebooted , however even after the reboot, it still did not come to its fully working state. 

Screen tearing, (weird tiling appeared at the left side of the screen), machine itself becomes super laggy, mouse cursor disappeared. 

Here is a video.  

* Do not worry about the smoke..... it was my cigarette... When I did a thumped up, I manually rebooted the pc. Other than that , I did not touch the power button.

I am thinking that my GPU is acting out. I will try to take out the GPU and using igpu and try it out . See whether this happens again. Now in my country it is 3:15 am.. I am gonna sleep.

 

 

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

What are the thermals on the GPU and CPU?

[Jake Dalay]

What are the specs of your rig?

Do you have a discrete GPU?

 

If so, I might suggest removing the GPU, and running on onboard graphics (since I don't know your setup, I'm just assuming you have onboard graphics).

 

If that works, then it could be a problem with your GPU.

 

You should check the CPU and GPU temps as recommended above, to see if that is the issue, before doing my advice if only for convenience's sake.

 

Also, is your system overclocked?

 

Also, my novice brain says maybe your power supply isn't functioning properly, as running a game is probably your most power-intensive use of the PC.

 

Anyway, answer those questions, give my troubleshoot a try, and let the more knowledgeable folks here help you out, this is about all I've got =).

[Thx And Bye]

Either you smoke like a lot in the same room and that causes problems with one of your components (the smoke isn't very good for your hardware over time) or one of your component died its natural death.
Either of both I'd run memtest86 and check if your RAM has problems, if you have problems there try with only one stick of RAM.

My second guess of hardware that could cause the problem would be the power supply. If you can try with a known good one.

[mrchow19910319]

@Thx And Bye @Jake Dalay @BlueChinchillaEatingDorito

 

My gpu died. I did not check my ram. But I am pretty sure it is okay. I took out my gtx780. Everything works fine. I even use it to play a round of Starcraft 2. Nothing happened. Then I thought it was probably the driver issue. I plugged back my gtx780 downloaded the driver , then boom. Screen turned black, pc frozen. This gpu is a second hand one. So no warranty whatsoever. Used it for one and half year. Bought it for $290. Not sure what's gonna do next. Probably wait for a while cos I don't really play games anymore. Might as well use this period of time just plug in my MacBook Pro and learning programming. Give my PC a rest for a while.Meanwhile save some money for a few months. Maybe next year buy a rx480 or something. Not sure. Thanks for the help. And the gtx780 is an asus one. Lol. Just saying. 

[Jake Dalay]

Sorry to hear about your dead GTX 780, I dropped full price for mine at launch, if it dies before it's good and retired I'm gonna be pissed.

 

If you find you aren't gaming very much currently, I would recommend picking up something like a rx480 or a mid level (the X60, X60-ti, where X is the current generation -10 currently - of Nvidia cards) nvidia card. Though of course you could go with a mid level of an older generation, didn't mean to say it has to be current.

 

Anyway, good luck with programming, it can be a fun hobby.

[mrchow19910319]

5 hours ago, Jake Dalay said:

 

Thanks dude, nah, I was pissed at 1st. That card did help me get through a tough period of time. But what's done is done. Now I need to move on. 

If I want to go back to some light gaming, I probably gonna buy a gtx1060/rx480.  The most intense game I play is witcher 3. 

 

Thanks for the help!!