Graphics Card Keeps Turning Off with any load

Tenebraearum · Dec 6, 2015

Hello, this has been an ongoing issue for some time. A month ago i looked up on possibilities of why my graphics card kept turning off. I found out it could be temperature and downloaded "TechPowerUp GPU-Z" to monitor. I found out the temp was at about 90 deg C. I got an air compressor and proceeded to blow out the GPU. After re-installing temperatures dropped to 50 deg C. Everything went smoothly for about 2 weeks. The situation started degrading slowly. First it turned off on games like :Rome Total War: Attila" and "ARK: Survival" Then it stopped playing low load games like "League of Legends". Now I can't even watch a video without it turning off and crashing. It keeps stating "NVIDIA DRIVER KERNEL STOPPED WORKING; PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR DRIVER IS UP TO DATE" Somewhere along those lines.. I'm hoping It's not regular degredation..Oh and the driver is up to date , I already scanned for updates twice today.

FreedomEclipse · Dec 6, 2015

Its that power supply. Get rid of it.

A few months ago i replaced two of the same unit within a month for a client. Both of them turned out to be faulty. Earlier this week we had a member who was complaining about his pc shutting down randomly when gaming.

He was also using the same psu and his life totally changed when he bought a better psu

Tenebraearum · Dec 6, 2015

FreedomEclipse said:
Its that power supply. Get rid of it.

A few months ago i replaced two of the same unit within a month for a client. Both of them turned out to be faulty. Earlier this week we had a member who was complaining about his pc shutting down randomly when gaming.

He was also using the same psu and his life totally changed when he bought a better psu

Damn! I did read that as well. I just bought a GTX 970. Eh.. it was time for an upgrade anyways .. lol. I'm looking at PSUs online now. What do you reccommend?

Solaris17 · Dec 6, 2015

Seasonic XFX corsair

FreedomEclipse · Dec 6, 2015

Solaris17 said:
Seasonic XFX corsair

Tenebraearum said:
Damn! I did read that as well. I just bought a GTX 970. Eh.. it was time for an upgrade anyways .. lol. I'm looking at PSUs online now. What do you reccommend?

Anything thats NOT from the CX line up of Corsair PSUs for starters.

You can get a nice XFX 650w Bronze certified PSU that will power your system without a problem. They are a slightly more expensive than the CX but leagues ahead in terms of reliability.

User replaced his faulty CX with a PSU from the corsair RMi line up and he has been happy with it since. The product line in general is too new to say if there will be any serious problems with it down the road, but for the time being everyone seems very happy with theirs as far as ive heard.

vega22 · Dec 6, 2015

superflower.

tbh 970 might be ok on that psu as iirc the 570 was a hot and hungry beast

Solaris17 · Dec 6, 2015

vega22 said:
superflower.

tbh 970 might be ok on that psu as iirc the 570 was a hot and hungry beast

another + for superflower as well.

Steevo · Dec 6, 2015

50C with no load? I suspect a lack of airflow and or poor contact.

PCGamerDR · Dec 6, 2015

FreedomEclipse said:
Its that power supply. Get rid of it.

A few months ago i replaced two of the same unit within a month for a client. Both of them turned out to be faulty. Earlier this week we had a member who was complaining about his pc shutting down randomly when gaming.

He was also using the same psu and his life totally changed when he bought a better psu

I think i have the only good one that left the factory

...been going strong for 2 years now, saving for it's replacement atm

Tenebraearum · Dec 6, 2015

Steevo said:
50C with no load? I suspect a lack of airflow and or poor contact.

I've re-sat it about 5 times.. I wish it was that

FreedomEclipse said:
Anything thats NOT from the CX line up of Corsair PSUs for starters.

You can get a nice XFX 650w Bronze certified PSU that will power your system without a problem. They are a slightly more expensive than the CX but leagues ahead in terms of reliability.

User replaced his faulty CX with a PSU from the corsair RMi line up and he has been happy with it since. The product line in general is too new to say if there will be any serious problems with it down the road, but for the time being everyone seems very happy with theirs as far as ive heard.

I just purchased this. Seasonic S12G-650 650W 80+ Gold Certified Wired Power Supply .

MxPhenom 216 · Dec 6, 2015

Solaris17 said:
Seasonic XFX corsair

Add EVGA to that list.

hat · Dec 7, 2015

I hear bad things about the Corsair CX series all the time here now. Is the CX600w unit okay? It's in my main rig. Maybe I got lucky, but it has yet to fail...

FreedomEclipse · Dec 7, 2015

hat said:
I hear bad things about the Corsair CX series all the time here now. Is the CX600w unit okay? It's in my main rig. Maybe I got lucky, but it has yet to fail...

I have no idea. Its made by CWT so its supposed to be pretty decent. However a lot of reviews have given it somewhere within the range of 8/10 which is insane for a PSU that has reliability issues that arent just batch related. I think that corsair might of shipped a good PSU out to reviewers while changing the formula for the ones that actually roll off the production line for the average consumer, deliberately making them more inferior to the ones being reviewed to save costs

MxPhenom 216 · Dec 7, 2015

FreedomEclipse said:
I have no idea. Its made by CWT so its supposed to be pretty decent. However a lot of reviews have given it somewhere within the range of 8/10 which is insane for a PSU that has reliability issues that arent just batch related. I think that corsair might of shipped a good PSU out to reviewers while changing the formula for the ones that actually roll off the production line for the average consumer, deliberately making them more inferior to the ones being reviewed to save costs

I dont know. The power supply I was using in my file server and cruncher was a CX430M and I had zero problems with it.

vega22 · Dec 8, 2015

MxPhenom 216 said:
Add EVGA to that list.

the only good psu they do are rebranded superflowers

cdawall · Dec 8, 2015

Powersupply is going bad as was said. Pick any of about a million good powersupplies of the 500+ watt range.

MxPhenom 216 · Dec 8, 2015

vega22 said:
the only good psu they do are rebranded superflowers

Most of the power supplies they have today are damn good.

Tenebraearum · Dec 11, 2015

So.. I replaced the power supply. I can now watch videos or netflix for about an hour or two before my gpu dies again. Glad I ordered a GTX 970.

Tenebraearum · Dec 11, 2015

Now my computer is restarting on its own...

FreedomEclipse · Dec 11, 2015

It might be your motherboard which is borked

Tenebraearum · Dec 11, 2015

Honestly.. I've had this computer since late 2011.. I think it's time....

Tenebraearum · Dec 11, 2015

I checked all the capacitors and they seem fine. Could it be... a slot issue?... I wonder if it's that simple.......

tabascosauz · Dec 11, 2015

I had a run-in with a possibly dead graphics card in October and November. Never thought that it would be the GPU, but having replaced the board, PSU, RAM and tested with another CPU the problem persisted. Turned out that it was the GPU.

Make sure that your GPU isn't sagging. I recently realised that the R7 265 (GPU of problem) is actually slightly warped from the bad fit between the PCIe x16 slot and slots in the back; it may have been physical damage that caused the boot issues. It could be that long-term PCB warping has damaged your GTX 570, since it's such an old card?

People never think that it could be the GPU, but it's still possible.

Tenebraearum · Dec 11, 2015

tabascosauz said:
I had a run-in with a possibly dead graphics card in October and November. Never thought that it would be the GPU, but having replaced the board, PSU, RAM and tested with another CPU the problem persisted. Turned out that it was the GPU.

Make sure that your GPU isn't sagging. I recently realised that the R7 265 (GPU of problem) is actually slightly warped from the bad fit between the PCIe x16 slot and slots in the back; it may have been physical damage that caused the boot issues. It could be that long-term PCB warping has damaged your GTX 570, since it's such an old card?

People never think that it could be the GPU, but it's still possible.

I ordered the GTX 970... ITS TAKING FOREVER TO GET HERE. Military Post sucks!

Tenebraearum · Dec 12, 2015

It was indeed the graphics card... everything back up to normal. Thanks again guys!

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