Strange boot issue

[DjSall]

Hello LTT Forum members!

 

This is not your everyday "help my pc won't boot" post, sadly, because i would have been able to troubleshoot that myself.

My PC somethimes decides to be a bitch and revert the bios settings to default, and/or (depending on her mood) spinning the GPU fan at 100% with black screens.

I once tried running the system with on-board graphics, and it worked.

The GPU is the likely culprit, but I don't know why it boots most of the time, and is only bitching around sometimes?

My CPU overclock validates with a few hours of aida stress test, the GPU is artifacting under load sometimes (while being at stock clocks, underclocking only makes it WORSE), but it doesn't crash during stress tests or during gaming.

Here are the specs:

- I5-4670k @ 4.4Ghz \w 1.3V

- Asus R9 280X @ Stock

- Asrock Z97 Fatality Killer

- 2x4Gb Kingston HyperX Blu @ 1600Mhz (XMP)

- XFX 650W

What i already did:

- Clean out the case

- Take out the GPU and reseat it and the power plugs on it.

- All my temps are fine after 1-2 hours of full system load my CPU's highest core value is 80C(avaraging 68), and my GPU's max is 72C.

- My RAM already had Memtest86 check it, but it was a year ago, maybe i should give it a go again?

- The motherboard has no blown caps/other components on it, and it reports 32C during load.

 

Any suggestions are appriciated, thanks

[ProjectBox153]

Have you changed the battery? 

[DjSall]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Have you changed the battery? 

IT happens while being plugged in, so the battery should not affect it.

[Sack]

If your GPU artifacts under stock settings, that sounds like an RMA issue, and you should contact Asus.

[DjSall]

26 minutes ago, Sack said:

If your GPU artifacts under stock settings, that sounds like an RMA issue, and you should contact Asus.

Sadly it is already out of warranty. :C

I think i should finally buy that 1070...