Graphics card issue?

[Ryuukuza]

Hi, I was having the problems described in this post from TomsHardware's Forum (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3762588/random...), and I think I narrowed it down to the graphics card.

Long story short: the PC freezes (except for audio), mostly whenever I try to play a game, but not always. It started out by rebooting randomly, now it completely freezes most of the time and I have to turn it off by pressing the power button.

I am having more and more trouble turning it on again after that happens, either this happens (https://imgur.com/a/klVNjw9) or it just doesn't display anything. A light on the motherboard, near the CPU, also lights up orange, white or red.

Last time it just rebooted while I was watching a YouTube video, second to last time it freezed after a couple of seconds in a game menu and wouldn't turn on again without showing that (link above), so I had to turn off the power supply itself.

WhoCrashed shows no dumps, I tried updating the drivers but that didn't help, no component is overclocked (not even the RAM) and the PC, which is the following (https://pcpartpicker.com/list/twrVmq) is just a couple of months old, clean and ventilated.

Please help me. Thanks.

[adm0n]

Do you have any other computer? if yes you could just install something like team viewer and set it up to start after your PC boots.
Then you just take out your graphics card and connect to it with the other computer. If it is stable like that, you can just RMA the card (:

This is assuming you have done everything normal, like using DDU to install your graphics driver and so on ...

[Ryuukuza]

3 minutes ago, adm0n said:

Do you have any other computer? if yes you could just install something like team viewer and set it up to start after your PC boots.
Then you just take out your graphics card and connect to it with the other computer. If it is stable like that, you can just RMA the card (:

This is assuming you have done everything normal, like using DDU to install your graphics driver and so on ...

I have a Ryzen 7 1700 so that's not possible unfortunately. I did use DDU a couple of months ago to install the graphics driver.

[adm0n]

Of course it is possible ._.

 

You are supposed to connect to your computer via a remote desktop program ._.

2 minutes ago, Ryuukuza said:

I have a Ryzen 7 1700 so that's not possible unfortunately.

Your computer will turn on without a GPU just fine.

You could try installing the driver again, just to be sure.

[Ryuukuza]

3 minutes ago, adm0n said:

Of course it is possible ._.

 

You are supposed to connect to your computer via a remote desktop program ._.

Your computer will turn on without a GPU just fine.

You could try installing the driver again, just to be sure.

I'm sorry, from my understanding my processor doesn't have an integrated GPU, so it shouldn't boot without one. Am I getting something wrong?

[adm0n]

Your computer doesn't need a GPU to boot. You just need one to drive a display.

I kinda depends on your motherboard. Sometimes it waits indefinitely for a display driver to load (you could usually press a key to skip that. That is where the infamous: no keyboard detected, press any key to continue comes from. It was waiting for an input device, so that it doesn't start without one. Plug and Play wasn't a thing back then). But you could just try it out and if it doesn't work there should be some option in your UEFI.