First build, Tech support inevitably requested

[Zoinks!]

Hello everyone!

 

I just finished my first computer build and to my surprise I have assembled the parts correctly, but in my noob-ish, naive mind, I didn't realise this was only half the battle. However, although I have managed to resolve other numerous and various issues with my build, my most significant problem is with my graphics card.

 

When doing a graphics intensive task such as loading up a game or an 8k video, my card seems to go from practically zero usage to 100% usage in a second or two, the screen goes black for a few moments with the program crashed when the screen returns.

 

 

Thanks in advanced for anyone who helps, or even taking the time to read this.

 

 

Some specs if needed:

Ryzen 2700x

1080ti

x370 mb

16gb 3000mhz ram

 

 

[Master Disaster]

What exactly were you loading when that happened? Your HDD is also maxing out too btw.

 

Edit

 

And your RAM is locked at 8GB usage. That's very odd.

[Origami Cactus]

Are both powerconnectors connected to the card firmly?

What is your psu?

[Zoinks!]

17 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

What exactly were you loading when that happened? Your HDD is also maxing out too btw.

 

Edit

 

And your RAM is locked at 8GB usage. That's very odd.

The 100% usage is also something I've been experiencing for a while now, even with an SSD my old laptop with a 960m. I even did a clean install of Geforce drivers and wiped every program from safe mode, but still, the problem persists. I will look into the RAM being locked though, good spot.

 

 

Edit:

It happens when loading modern games such as Star Citizen or Battlefield but also 8k videos such as this: 

 

[Zoinks!]

8 minutes ago, Origami Cactus said:

Are both powerconnectors connected to the card firmly?

What is your psu?

Just checked, power connections are good, psu is 650 watt Corsair Vengeance 80 Plus Silver. Maybe I should change my connectors all together? 

[Peskanova]

100% gpu usage is fine dont worry about that , disk usage is not, but I think that if your pc dont shut down only black screen, for me Im 99% sure that is driver issue. (cause that black screen is a gpu driver crashing...) so maybe its program-driver related not hardware.

 

3000 mhz ram? some overclock to achieve that?, ram can be inestable at that speeds. 

[Zoinks!]

1 minute ago, Peskanova said:

100% gpu usage is fine dont worry about that , disk usage is not, but I think that if your pc dont shut down only black screen, for me Im 99% sure that is driver issue. (cause that black screen is a gpu driver crashing...) so maybe its program-driver related not hardware.

Okay, so I'll try downloading an old driver and update you. If this works than old really will be new!

[Zoinks!]

43 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

What exactly were you loading when that happened? Your HDD is also maxing out too btw.

 

Edit

 

And your RAM is locked at 8GB usage. That's very odd.

Just unlocked my RAM, however nothing appears to have changed 

[LogicalDrm]

19 minutes ago, Zoinks! said:

Just unlocked my RAM, however nothing appears to have changed 

Did you do clean install of Windows or did you reuse some old drive with existing install?

[Zoinks!]

31 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Did you do clean install of Windows or did you reuse some old drive with existing install?

Clean install

 

 

Edit:

However, that was windows 8.1, I will try downloading windows 10 and clean installing it

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, Zoinks! said:

Clean install

 

 

Edit:

However, that was windows 8.1, I will try downloading windows 10 and clean installing it

That could be it. Upgrades aren't the smoothes possible.