Solid color screen crash

[Derrk]

Hey everyone,

 

I've been having trouble with my PC as of earlier today. I've spent hours working on it and reading countless threads which were of no use. I was hoping someone here could help.

 

As of today, within 10-15 seconds of my PC booting into windows, it crashes and will display a random color on both of my monitors. The colors are never the same, and i havent gotten a BSOD. The only issue i can think of is that i was playing around with my CPU and set it to a modest OC, and it ran stable for a few hours before the issue. I powered down my PC and when i came back to it, i started experiencing this problem. I'm able to get into BIOS and i reset my RAM and CPU to defaults, but I'm still experiencing this crash every time i boot within seconds.

 

In one occurrence, i was able to boot without it crashing and immediately ran whatever diagnostics i could. In that time i found that my memory, and drives were fine. The only error that popped up was for IOmap64.sys so i uninstalled that. As soon as i did, it force-restarted and I've only been experiencing crashes since then.

 

I don't think temperatures are the problem. My CPU idles around 32-34°C and my GPU idles around 36°C or so. From the threads I've read, people have suggested it's an issue with the PSU or GPU. Both of these components in my build are under a month old, as I've done some small upgrades on my build. My build together is about 2.5 years old except for PSU & GPU. My PSU is 100W more powerful & better efficiency than my previous one so i dont think it's lack of power either. This has been really frustrating, ive practically taken apart my PC and put it back together, including the CMOS in hopes that it will boot fine. Unfortunately i don't have my old GPU or PSU to test my PC with anymore. 

 

My specs are:

Intel i5 4690k

Evga 1070ti ftw2

Corsair SF600W Gold

16GB corsair vengeance DDR3 2400Mhz

Asus z97i-plus mobo

120GB M.2 boot drive (forget brand)

1TB WD blue

Corsair H50

Win 7 home professional

 

If you guys have any advice for things i can try that would be awesome because I'm left scratching my head at this point. (All of this was written on my phone)

((RIP my PC))

 

 

[Vengeance1020]

IOmap64.sys sounds like a vital component, perhaps running startup repair with a windows DVD or USB

[Derrk]

 

19 minutes ago, Vengeance1020 said:

IOmap64.sys sounds like a vital component, perhaps running startup repair with a windows DVD or USB

From what i read online, others said its fine to uninstall IOmap if it's causing issues because it will reinstall the next time you boot. Im starting to believe there may be a problem with my GPU after all.

 

In safe mode, i disabled my gpu driver and i was able to boot into Windows on my 1080p monotor with no issues. I only saw the colored screen crash again, after i deleted & reinstalled the drivers for my 1070ti.

 

Im wondering if its possible that i was sent a defective or refurbished model. I ordered the GPU late december, right before miners dried up the market and it was placed on back order for almost a month. I constantly faught with amazon asking them of they knew when they'd have it back in stock. They didnt know, and it showed up out of the blue a couple day after one of their "who knows" responses.

 

But other than that, i can get full access to PC on one monitor while the gpu driver is uninstalled

[Vengeance1020]

1 minute ago, Derrk said:

 

From what i read online, others said its fine to uninstall IOmap if it's causing issues because it will reinstall the next time you boot. Im starting to believe there may be a problem with my GPU after all.

 

In safe mode, i disabled my gpu driver and i was able to boot into Windows on my 1080p monotor with no issues. I only saw the colored screen crash again, after i deleted & reinstalled the drivers for my 1070ti.

 

Im wondering if its possible that i was sent a defective or refurbished model. I ordered the GPU late december, right before miners dried up the market and it was placed on back order for almost a month. I constantly faught with amazon asking them of they knew when they'd have it back in stock. They didnt know, and it showed up out of the blue a couple day after one of their "who knows" responses.

 

But other than that, i can get full access to PC on one monitor while the gpu driver is uninstalled

did you redownload the drivers or reinstall from the same package? I dont think the PSU is the issue since your unit draws roughly the same amount of power my system is out of my 550W with no OC (based around a guesstimate lol but still) though with that hardware and that PSU, I wouldnt OC all that much if at all

[Derrk]

5 minutes ago, Vengeance1020 said:

did you redownload the drivers or reinstall from the same package? I dont think the PSU is the issue since your unit draws roughly the same amount of power my system is out of my 550W with no OC (based around a guesstimate lol but still) though with that hardware and that PSU, I wouldnt OC all that much if at all

I reinstalled the same driver as before and got the same crashes. I havent tried one of the older drivers yet, but that could potentially work. PSU shouldnt be the problem, its a bit over the top with japanese coils/conductors or whatever it is. But i needed an SFF modular PSU for my new card and this was somehow the cheapest that looked good. I'll try one of the older drivers now.

 

Thanks for your quick responses!

[Derrk]

Older drivers haven't worked either. I called EVGA and they offered a variety of suggestions to fix & nothing worked. EVGA will be sending me a new GPU.

[Vengeance1020]

1 minute ago, Derrk said:

Older drivers haven't worked either. I called EVGA and they offered a variety of suggestions to fix & nothing worked. EVGA will be sending me a new GPU.

GPU worked before overclocking CPU right? 

[Derrk]

3 hours ago, Vengeance1020 said:

GPU worked before overclocking CPU right? 

Yeah everything was working fine before the OC. I had OC'd the GPU as well before but hadnt increased the voltage. I'm wondering if turning the power draw up may have hurt the card. The card is listed as pulling 325W at max, and only has 2 x 8 pin PCIe cable which can only supply 300W at most

[Vengeance1020]

1 minute ago, Derrk said:

Yeah everything was working fine before the OC. I had OC'd the GPU as well before but hadnt increased the voltage. I'm wondering if turning the power draw up may have hurt the card. The card is listed as pulling 325W at max, and only has 2 x 8 pin PCIe cable which can only supply 300W at most

Well if the card was OC and was not receiving enough power it will act strangely, with the OC removed then it should function as normal, and those cables can supply 300W at most but with power from the main board the card receives 375W at most 

[Derrk]

Thats true, i forgot about power from the mobo. It definitely would have been recieving enough power. In which case, i must have just lost the silicon lottery, or was sent a refurbished card from amazon. The box gave me suspicions from the start, but the card ran fine for almost a month. I was able to get a stable OC with +150Mhz clock speed & +200 Mhz memory without adjusting voltage.