I need help... Everything is broken

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I turned off my computer, woke up next day (today) and first I noticed a problem with starting the computer that it just restarted, after that it worked just as usual (I didn't do anything special, just watched youtube ect). 

I then wanted to play some games and loaded BF1, and was greeted with pixels upon pixels then system crashed so I had to press the reset button (It just went black).

 

Then when I booted the system it looked like this

 

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So after that I turned the computer off and prayed. I then removed the GPU and loaded in with the Intel Graphics and it worked fine. It ran like usual with no pixels what so ever!

 

I then plugged in the GPU again to test and it worked! for a while atleast, my computer crashed after a while to display this

 

Spoiler

 

Removed the gpu once again and booted and it worked fine. booted in to safe mode and made a 'clean install' with DDU on Nvidia drivers.

 

plugged the Gpu back in and thought and booted up and everything worked (atleast it seemed like it).

 

I had never overclocked the card and downloaded MSI Afterburner to underclock it if there was some problems with that ( I googled and someone said that could be a problem )

 

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Everything worked fine so far, I downloaded furmark as seen in the image above and ran it for 1 hour 44 minutes in 1920x1080 without any problems. It didn't crash or anything.

 

I then booted BF1 again to test, and poof, PC hardcrashed so I had to reset it myself.

 

Sometimes it's also pixels on the desktop 

 

Spoiler

 

I really need help, did my card just broke over night for no reason?

 

Here is my full computer specs if that helps.

 

• i7-4790K
• 16Gb Corsair RAM
• seagate SHDD
• samsung 850 SSD
• 850W Goldnova power supply 
• Zotac Amp Extreme 1080
• Asus z97-a (I believe).

 

 

If I can't get this done by 1-2 days so will I try a full restore (Unless you can guarantee that it's the gpu that is drying (its only 3 months old!)) to see if it works, then an RMA.

 

Please I really need help

 

Bottom Edit 1: 

Tried some GTA V and everything worked (So far), 

 

speculations could be that BF1 breaks something on boot which seems wierd as I have over 100 hours since release on BF1 with 0 crashes before, and now this.

 

But then, if it was just BF1 problem, sometimes the system don't boot (today) and pixels on desktop

 

 

Edit 2: (I have now placed the GPU in Pcie 16 slot 2 on the motherboard)

I can now play BF1 without problems, no lags, no indications of pixels, nothing at all. (I will play for ~30 min on max settings to see if I see any indications of lag/Pixrls

 

Could my motherboard pci slot 1 just break?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Looks like toasted GPU.

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Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Looks like toasted GPU.

But how, it has just stood in a corner playing games and rendering some videos,

 

Also how come I can play FurMark for 2 hours without problems but if I launch a game, it goes kaput.

 

I'm trying some other games off steam now, if I reply slow so is it because im on mobile because computer crashed 

[martward]

Safest thing would be to just RMA the GPU. You don't want to push it and accidentally short out your PC, possibly harming other components too.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 minute ago, TriTexas said:

But how, it has just stood in a corner playing games and rendering some videos,

 

Also how come I can play FurMark for 2 hours without problems but if I launch a game, it goes kaput.

 

I'm trying some other games off steam now, if I reply slow so is it because im on mobile because computer crashed 

Everything has a possibility to fail. Pushing it to the limits just speeds up that process. It doesn't guarantee things can't fail under normal operation. The failures shown in your photos are reminiscent to GPU failures that have plagued many Macs in the past. If the problem persists with every display output on the card and after reinstalling graphics card driver, just RMA the card. It's a 1080 so your warranty should still be valid.

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11 minutes ago, EnemySp0tt3d said:

games test other parts of a gpu when stress testing applications.

Understandable, but sometimes the pixels have just randomly started coming up on the desktop when doing nothing.

 

Tried Gta V on max settings for a few minutes now (1920x1080), no problems (yet)

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3 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Everything has a possibility to fail. Pushing it to the limits just speeds up that process. It doesn't guarantee things can't fail under normal operation. The failures shown in your photos are reminiscent to GPU failures that have plagued many Macs in the past. If the problem persists with every display output on the card and after reinstalling graphics card driver, just RMA the card. It's a 1080 so your warranty should still be valid.

Yeah where I live all electronics got 3 year warranty from store so I can send it back (For like 20 euro--------) and then I get a new one after like 2 weeks or something, it's quite a long time, its almost christmas by then! 

[Sack]

Looks like a good old failing GPU my Icelandic brother, although I'd recommend testing another video cable, because it could just be that too... but most likely your GPU is almost dead.

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Just now, Sack said:

Looks like a good old failing GPU my Icelandic brother, although I'd recommend testing another video cable, because it could just be that too... but most likely your GPU is almost dead.

Tried on 2 monitors with DP & HDMI. Once the pixels start coming it comes on both monitors

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

7 minutes ago, TriTexas said:

Yeah where I live all electronics got 3 year warranty from store so I can send it back (For like 20 euro--------) and then I get a new one after like 2 weeks or something, it's quite a long time, its almost christmas by then! 

Well if you had an older generation card, the manufacturer a lot of the times will replace your card with a current gen on of the same class . So if you did have something like a 780, you could've considered it as a Christmas present haahahaha

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10 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Well if you had an older generation card, the manufacturer a lot of the times will replace your card with a current gen on of the same class . So if you did have something like a 780, you could've considered it as a Christmas present haahahaha

so we concluded that the gpu is on it's way to the grave then I guess? 

 

Should I bother trying to full restore the computer to see if that helps?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

2 minutes ago, TriTexas said:

so we concluded that the gpu is on it's way to the grave then I guess? 

 

Should I bother trying to full restore the computer to see if that helps?

What you could do is turn on the computer and go into the BIOS. Since the BIOS is completely separate from Windows (meaning Windows will not affect it no matter how clean or broken the install is), if problems persist there, it's pretty much guaranteed that your card is a no goer.

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Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

What you could do is turn on the computer and go into the BIOS. Since the BIOS is completely separate from Windows (meaning Windows will not affect it no matter how clean or broken the install is), if problems persist there, it's pretty much guaranteed that your card is a no goer.

I only seem to get the pixel problem once I try to load BF1 it seems like? I'm currently sitting here without problemsbut before i'm pretty sure the problems occoured randomly. It also happened during boot as seen in a image above

[sam_fisher007]

1 hour ago, TriTexas said:

I turned off my computer, woke up next day (today) and first I noticed a problem with starting the computer that it just restarted, after that it worked just as usual (I didn't do anything special, just watched youtube ect). 

I then wanted to play some games and loaded BF1, and was greeted with pixels upon pixels then system crashed so I had to press the reset button (It just went black).

 

Then when I booted the system it looked like this

 

  Hide contents

 

 

So after that I turned the computer off and prayed. I then removed the GPU and loaded in with the Intel Graphics and it worked fine. It ran like usual with no pixels what so ever!

 

I then plugged in the GPU again to test and it worked! for a while atleast, my computer crashed after a while to display this

 

  Hide contents

 

Removed the gpu once again and booted and it worked fine. booted in to safe mode and made a 'clean install' with DDU on Nvidia drivers.

 

plugged the Gpu back in and thought and booted up and everything worked (atleast it seemed like it).

 

I had never overclocked the card and downloaded MSI Afterburner to underclock it if there was some problems with that ( I googled and someone said that could be a problem )

 

  Hide contents

Everything worked fine so far, I downloaded furmark as seen in the image above and ran it for 1 hour 44 minutes in 1920x1080 without any problems. It didn't crash or anything.

 

I then booted BF1 again to test, and poof, PC hardcrashed so I had to reset it myself.

 

Sometimes it's also pixels on the desktop 

 

  Hide contents

 

I really need help, did my card just broke over night for no reason?

 

Here is my full computer specs if that helps.

 

• i7-4790K
• 16Gb Corsair RAM
• seagate SHDD
• samsung 850 SSD
• 850W Goldnova power supply 
• Zotac Amp Extreme 1080
• Asus z97-a (I believe).

 

 

If I can't get this done by 1-2 days so will I try a full restore (Unless you can guarantee that it's the gpu that is drying (its only 3 months old!)) to see if it works, then an RMA.

 

Please I really need help

 

Bottom Edit 1: 

Tried some GTA V and everything worked (So far), 

 

speculations could be that BF1 breaks something on boot which seems wierd as I have over 100 hours since release on BF1 with 0 crashes before, and now this.

 

But then, if it was just BF1 problem, sometimes the system don't boot (today) and pixels on desktop

OMG!!! I have had similar issues with my pc when playing bf1. Everything else worked perfectly. Even stress tested my cpu and gpu with furmark for hours.

 

Luckily my mate had exctly the same setup as me (except case and psu) so we tried replacing parts one by one... cpu, ram, video card, psu. Until we got down to the last part. The frigging MOTHERBOARD. And only had issues running BF1. Every other app/game worked perfectly. 

 

Just saying. Ended up replacing my motherboard with exactly the same one (second hand) and haven't had any issues since.................... lol except water pump died yesterday 

 

 

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On 2016-12-06 at 1:09 AM, sam_fisher007 said:

OMG!!! I have had similar issues with my pc when playing bf1. Everything else worked perfectly. Even stress tested my cpu and gpu with furmark for hours.

 

Luckily my mate had exctly the same setup as me (except case and psu) so we tried replacing parts one by one... cpu, ram, video card, psu. Until we got down to the last part. The frigging MOTHERBOARD. And only had issues running BF1. Every other app/game worked perfectly. 

 

Just saying. Ended up replacing my motherboard with exactly the same one (second hand) and haven't had any issues since.................... lol except water pump died yesterday 

 

 

Hm, the motherboard you say, 

 

Edit post on this; Have been playing BF1 since I sent in the gpu now without any problems (Just playing on intel graphics)

[sam_fisher007]

Yeah. If you have a chance to try another motherboard, give that a go. Otherwise, have you tried different display ports on your video card and/or monitor?

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10 minutes ago, sam_fisher007 said:

Yeah. If you have a chance to try another motherboard, give that a go. Otherwise, have you tried different display ports on your video card and/or monitor?

Yes 2 different monitors, I could take the graphic card to my parents computer and test... if it fits since its huge.

 

I booted up BF4 to see if it was the same problem... It was.

 

I now have the gpu in Pci slot 2 (instead of the top one).

 

Going to test if it works, if anyone replies and I don't answer directly so is it because it didn't work and it crashed

 

Edit: Uh, I can now play BF1 without problems, no lags, no indications of pixels, nothing at all.

 

Could my motherboard pci slot 1 just break?

[sam_fisher007]

12 minutes ago, TriTexas said:

Yes 2 different monitors, I could take the graphic card to my parents computer and test... if it fits since its huge.

 

I booted up BF4 to see if it was the same problem... It was.

 

I now have the gpu in Pci slot 2 (instead of the top one).

 

Going to test if it works, if anyone replies and I don't answer directly so is it because it didn't work and it crashed

 

Edit: Uh, I can now play BF1 without problems, no lags, no indications of pixels, nothing at all.

 

Could my motherboard pci slot 1 just break?

Keep testing. Initially when i replaced ram for the first time it worked fine for like 2hours. Then started crashing again.

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3 minutes ago, sam_fisher007 said:

Keep testing. Initially when i replaced ram for the first time it worked fine for like 2hours. Then started crashing again.

Hmm, I think I will let pc run all night with like the crysis 3 skybox but in BF1 singleplayer instead.

 

But it feels wierd if the PCIE slot 1 broke....? Zotac even gave me a gpu stand to support the weight

[sam_fisher007]

Doesn't have to be physically broken. Maybe northbridge chip is faulty.

 

Whats your cooling like, especially case cooling. Gotta have airflow near the cpu socket especially if you have a water block instead of heatsink with a big ass fan on it

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8 minutes ago, sam_fisher007 said:

Doesn't have to be physically broken. Maybe northbridge chip is faulty.

 

Whats your cooling like, especially case cooling. Gotta have airflow near the cpu socket especially if you have a water block instead of heatsink with a big ass fan on it

I have a aio cooler (Kraken X60 for cpu) with 2 fans blowing out the case on the top

2 fans in front pulling air in

1 fan on the back shooting out

 

Temps are never high in my opinion.

 

What does

"Maybe northbridge chip is faulty." ?

 

I have had this computer since 2014 and recently upgraded to 1080

[sam_fisher007]

21 minutes ago, TriTexas said:

I have a aio cooler (Kraken X60 for cpu) with 2 fans blowing out the case on the top

2 fans in front pulling air in

1 fan on the back shooting out

 

Temps are never high in my opinion.

 

What does

"Maybe northbridge chip is faulty." ?

 

I have had this computer since 2014 and recently upgraded to 1080

Yeah. That cooling sounds sufficient. Northbridge chip is the communication interface between components like cpu, gpu and ram. Its normally located around the cpu area on the left. Check out your motherboard manual, there are cool diagrams to show you how component talk to each other.

 

And yeah. 2014.. not old by any means but well out of the 1 year manufacturer warranty CONSPIRACY 

Edited December 6, 2016 by sam_fisher007
Corrected spelling

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25 minutes ago, sam_fisher007 said:

Yeah. That cooling sounds sufficient. Northbridge chip is the communication interface between components like cpu, gpu and ram. Its normally located around the cpu area on the left. Check out your motherboard manual, there are cool diagrams to show you how component talk to each other.

 

And yeah. 2014.. not old by any means but well out of the 1 year manufacturer warranty CONSPIRACY 

Still running great on the pcie x16 slot (2) with no visual lags or computer crashes, im going to bed and running BF1 singleplayer in the wood map on max settings. I post update in ~8 hours

 

Thanks for the help today guys

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Alright, update on next day.

 

After placing the GPU in the pcie 16x slot 2 so was I able to play BF1 without any problems. 

 

Right when I typed this the pixels came back over both screens and then both monitors went black, but just for a few seconds, it didn't hardcrash.

 

Im not sure what the problem is

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Update. Everything crashed now and I have tried to start my computer for 15 minutes, it now started and I am writing this.

 

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