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#1 ·
Hello,

For the past four months or so certain games would always crash my computer (cs:go and cod block ops) but I was fine with this because I never really played these games; I also assumed it was a problem related to these games. However the problem seems to have spread. GW2 crashed three times in a row and now all games I have tried (except for minecraft) crash in under 10 minutes of playing. League of Legends and CSS no longer work.

When the games crash the same sound that was playing will keep playing for 10 seconds after the freeze, then it will start repeating. My screen will generally glitch out and turn a solid colour; occasionally there will be bars across the screen.

My old pc had an issue similar to this when I had a bad stick of ram; the difference being that it only happened during YouTube videos. I then tried taking out one of my sticks and then the other to find the bad one (this being done on my current pc). However the crashes continued (I did notice that it seemed to take longer to crash on just one stick of ram. Possible both sticks are bad?

In addition to this I usually have two 6970s in Crossfire. I always suspected that my second card was broken but I only confirmed it 2 weeks ago. I ran FurMark and the second car did nothing, plugged a monitor into it and it received no signal. Definitely broken (unless its the slot that is broken).

To recap, two possible broken sticks of ram, a bad second graphics card and I can not play games.

I am very sad
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Please help me
 
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#2 ·
First things first.. open up some monitoring software and check your temps on your videocard.. the crashes sound like they are heat related (for example I recently neglected regular blowing out of dust on my 7970 and the other week I was crashing constantly in every game usually 5-15 mins into the game.. same symptoms.. black screen.. sound continues then repeats.) I bought a can of compressed air duster.. blew the card out completely and thoroughly cleaned all the fans and filters on my case and tried again.. and success I have been crash and trouble free ever since.. not to mention my temps are roughly 5-10c cooler than they were before. Hope this helps ya.
 
#3 ·
Pretty sure it is not a overheating issue, I tried watching gpuz the whole time and it crashed when the card was around 80 degrees (IIRC) and even on prime 95 blend my cpu never goes above 75 degrees.

However I will try again just to be sure.

Thanks for the helping
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#4 ·
sometimes it's not just the core temps you need to worry about but also the voltage regulation module, your temps on the core could be fine but if the vrm is overheating it will cause the card to crash.. also not sure what version of drivers you are on, and the last time you updated was, but a clean sweep and new drivers might just help you out aswell, always best to rule out and do the easy things first eh.
 
#5 ·
Do you know where I would find the vrm temperatures? I don't see them on GPU-Z. I updated by drivers three days ago but I will attempt a clean install.
 
#7 ·
I ran lol to test my temps. I did not actually run it till it crashed however I noticed some things. My VRM temps are great (25 degrees) however, my shader temps and to a lesser extent my MemIO temps are high. My shader idles around 100 degrees and spikes up to 130 when playing lol. my MemIO temps idle at 80 and jump to 100. I do not think these are normal.

What next?
 
#8 ·
I forgot to mention that I recently added a second monitor to my setup. This might have helped cause the worsening of the problem? I know for sure that it is not the cause as the crashes with cs:go and blops were happening way before I got the second monitor.
 
#10 ·
I love you.

It turns out my second gfx card wasn't actually broken, I either set it up wrong, my bridge was broken idk. The first one probable has so major dust issues because the shader temps would spike to 150 degrees (Celcius). So now I guess my second pci slot is broken. Going to figure out how to clean my other card and then sell it or something I guess
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Well thanks for the help guys, going to put my other stick of ram back in now (I forgot too
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) and hopefully nothing else breaks for a while.
 
#12 ·
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Originally Posted by Willie828 View Post

In addition to this I usually have two 6970s in Crossfire. I always suspected that my second card was broken but I only confirmed it 2 weeks ago. I ran FurMark and the second car did nothing, plugged a monitor into it and it received no signal. Definitely broken (unless its the slot that is broken).
in crossfire the 2nd card turns "slave", the dvi ports etc. are disabled, to test crossfire in furmark, run furmark in a fullscreen mode (basicly, you have no crossfire anywhere, unless you run fullscreen).

best way to test is, take one out, game till u crash, put the other card in (alone), see if you crash..
-If you dont crash first time, the 2nd card might be broken, take the 1st card out and test the 2nd card single mode.
-if you crash first time, but not 2nd time, 1st card is probarbly broken.
-if you crash with both cards in single gpu mode, its not your cards probarbly... (or you have some bad luck)
-if you dont crash single card, but you do dual card, you might have a light PSU, or crossfire causes more load on pci-e bus, controllers, cpu memory wich causes a crash.

to test ram in a real setting, take 1 ram out, if you crash the single bar is the problem, if you dont, put another bar of ram in same slot, test again, if you still dont crash, put both ram's in and test then, if you crash then.. check your ram settings, especially the voltage wich might have some drop.

occt is nice for testing cpu/gpu too, and if you run the linpack on a high setting, it will also show instability in cpu -> memory & memcontroller.
 
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