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My first time back since 2013 and it's to ask for help, fun times This will be a bit long..
I've been having some fairly serious issues with a new (second-hand, zero issues beforehand) R9 280x GPU I got off a good mate over the weekend.
I was at his house for a LAN, not wanting to waste time I simply chucked it in (switched drivers from Nvidia to AMD) and started playing.
A few hours of CSGO, fine. A few hours more of Civ V, then I got a random "grey screen" freeze. Seems like the kinda screen you get when your overclock fails, right?
So I fired up OCCT, ran the GPU test and then around 40 seconds in, it recorded a few hundred errors in around 1 second flat. Around 50 seconds in my screen flashed black, 5-10 seconds after my system then completely rebooted.
Now, I had gotten yet another second hand card a couple of months earlier, a 580GTX. It also got errors while under OCCT stress, but after underclocking the Core somewhat, I had it stressing for 12 hours+ with zero issues. Never had any other problems. Neither cards were overclocked any higher than factory clocks/overclocks.
I tried the same with the 280x and it ran in OCCT for around 10mins before we started CSGO again. Not another freeze.
I can't remember exactly what I did the first night I got home(was still having issues of some sort), but the next night I put the card in the second PCI-E slot (thinking it might be an issue with the slot) and ran it overnight. It ran fine for about 3 hours before Windows decided to tell me my D: drive was apparently failing, minimizing the test. Restarted it and it ran fine for ~13 hours - I can't recall if I cancelled it or it was a * "Crysis2.exe has stopped responding".
I was sure it was just an issue with the PCI-E slot, thinking perhaps the top slot couldn't handle having so much power drain through it (GPUs do still pull power through the slot despite having external cords, right?) but then I realised that the second slot was only running at x8 compared to x16.
So now I thought that maybe it's a power issue, especially since it was taking the card 5~ minutes to reach 80C~ where as in the other slot it took <60 seconds.
I did some research and I read people saying that the Intel Turbo boost for their CPUs often drained a hell of a lot of power, despite the CPU barely being used in these tests, I decided to disable it and put the GPU back into the top slot - keeping it somewhat underclocked.
* My first stress lasted around 10 hours, but then OCCT "Crysis2.exe" started to crash - "become non-responsive". This is where I'm up to now, but just last night I had another "grey screen" freeze. A stress earlier yesterday resulted in a ~3min reboot with the GPU on factory clocks but CPU Turbo disabled.
I don't have temps of these tests as apparently by default OCCT doesn't record GPU temps, but I've never seen the temps go over 86C (I had RealTemp running earlier, but closed it after reading that another temp monitor maybe causing the .exe crash. Didn't help). I'm going to start another test after posting this with temps recording.
My last test last night lasted just short of 11 hours ended in the Crysis2.exe crash, after resetting to factory clocks but reducing the Power Limit (%) option in MSI Afterburner down to the minimum of -20%.
Right now I'm suspecting that it might be the PSU on it's way out (it is the oldest piece in my system, around 6 and a half years old now) since I had SOME issue with a previous, weaker GPU, and assuming that the 280x is OK as reported by my mate. I also had zero issues with a much older HD6950, which uses far less power than either of the other two.
Hopefully this actually makes sense, I've only just woken up and have to leave for a out of town daytrip shortly so I'm just getting this down as fast as possible.
I'm just out of ideas short of replacing individual parts, so I'm hoping somebody here can help point me in the right direction. Current specs are listed under my DP/in profile.
Thanks.
TLDR;
- Minor issue with 580GTX, underclock fix. Serious issue with 280x, unstable(system rebooting under stress) until reducing power usage of both GPU and CPU. Still getting rare (twice now) "grey screen" freezes afterwards.
- OCCT "Crysis2.exe" crashing after long stress tests, not sure if another form of GPU error or what. PSU is 6.5yo, thinking it might not be providing enough power for new(er) GPUs compared to my legacy HD6950 which had no issues.
I've been having some fairly serious issues with a new (second-hand, zero issues beforehand) R9 280x GPU I got off a good mate over the weekend.
I was at his house for a LAN, not wanting to waste time I simply chucked it in (switched drivers from Nvidia to AMD) and started playing.
A few hours of CSGO, fine. A few hours more of Civ V, then I got a random "grey screen" freeze. Seems like the kinda screen you get when your overclock fails, right?
So I fired up OCCT, ran the GPU test and then around 40 seconds in, it recorded a few hundred errors in around 1 second flat. Around 50 seconds in my screen flashed black, 5-10 seconds after my system then completely rebooted.
Now, I had gotten yet another second hand card a couple of months earlier, a 580GTX. It also got errors while under OCCT stress, but after underclocking the Core somewhat, I had it stressing for 12 hours+ with zero issues. Never had any other problems. Neither cards were overclocked any higher than factory clocks/overclocks.
I tried the same with the 280x and it ran in OCCT for around 10mins before we started CSGO again. Not another freeze.
I can't remember exactly what I did the first night I got home(was still having issues of some sort), but the next night I put the card in the second PCI-E slot (thinking it might be an issue with the slot) and ran it overnight. It ran fine for about 3 hours before Windows decided to tell me my D: drive was apparently failing, minimizing the test. Restarted it and it ran fine for ~13 hours - I can't recall if I cancelled it or it was a * "Crysis2.exe has stopped responding".
I was sure it was just an issue with the PCI-E slot, thinking perhaps the top slot couldn't handle having so much power drain through it (GPUs do still pull power through the slot despite having external cords, right?) but then I realised that the second slot was only running at x8 compared to x16.
So now I thought that maybe it's a power issue, especially since it was taking the card 5~ minutes to reach 80C~ where as in the other slot it took <60 seconds.
I did some research and I read people saying that the Intel Turbo boost for their CPUs often drained a hell of a lot of power, despite the CPU barely being used in these tests, I decided to disable it and put the GPU back into the top slot - keeping it somewhat underclocked.
* My first stress lasted around 10 hours, but then OCCT "Crysis2.exe" started to crash - "become non-responsive". This is where I'm up to now, but just last night I had another "grey screen" freeze. A stress earlier yesterday resulted in a ~3min reboot with the GPU on factory clocks but CPU Turbo disabled.
I don't have temps of these tests as apparently by default OCCT doesn't record GPU temps, but I've never seen the temps go over 86C (I had RealTemp running earlier, but closed it after reading that another temp monitor maybe causing the .exe crash. Didn't help). I'm going to start another test after posting this with temps recording.
My last test last night lasted just short of 11 hours ended in the Crysis2.exe crash, after resetting to factory clocks but reducing the Power Limit (%) option in MSI Afterburner down to the minimum of -20%.
Right now I'm suspecting that it might be the PSU on it's way out (it is the oldest piece in my system, around 6 and a half years old now) since I had SOME issue with a previous, weaker GPU, and assuming that the 280x is OK as reported by my mate. I also had zero issues with a much older HD6950, which uses far less power than either of the other two.
Hopefully this actually makes sense, I've only just woken up and have to leave for a out of town daytrip shortly so I'm just getting this down as fast as possible.
I'm just out of ideas short of replacing individual parts, so I'm hoping somebody here can help point me in the right direction. Current specs are listed under my DP/in profile.
Thanks.
TLDR;
- Minor issue with 580GTX, underclock fix. Serious issue with 280x, unstable(system rebooting under stress) until reducing power usage of both GPU and CPU. Still getting rare (twice now) "grey screen" freezes afterwards.
- OCCT "Crysis2.exe" crashing after long stress tests, not sure if another form of GPU error or what. PSU is 6.5yo, thinking it might not be providing enough power for new(er) GPUs compared to my legacy HD6950 which had no issues.