Hi all, I’m looking for help to solve my issue as soon as possible since the amazon return eligibility date on my gpu is soon.
I assembled my pc last week and I’ll start with admitting I started overclocking the cpu very soon after the install. I’ll post details on the endeavor after the issue.
Specs:
Ryzen 7 1700 @3ghz
Asus prime x370 pro
Gygabyte gtx 1060 3gb GV-N1060WF2OC-3GD
Gskill flarex 2x8 2400 Mhz
WD black 256 pcie nvme ssd
Corsair cx550m 550w
Right now the pc is on its default clock, after a bios reset. The issue is that at random times during general use, no load, the pc will hang. Screen turns black followed by a “no signal”. Mobo and wraith spire leds are on and fans continue to spin at the last speed they were (they don’t go to max). While it’s like this holding the power button for 5 seconds doesn’t do anything. The only thing I can do is switch off and on the psu, after which it would boot normally. Then the pc would work normally until the next crash. There is nothing in the event log except for kernel power errors but those are at the times I turn the pc on. I tried waiting a few minutes after a black screen yesterday just to see if there is anything logged at that exact time and there was nothing.
Another issue arose this morning after I saw a suggestion that it might be the vid cable so I switched the hdmi-hdmi cable with a dvi-d (GPU) to hdmi (monitor) which I had on hand. Now the pc would boot again BUT there was no bios splash screen and spamming del makes the pc reboot it seems (monitor going from no signal to black). But if I wait it would show directly at the windows logon loading screen. With hdmi-hdmi I can see the asus logos and access the bios. Also to add – while switching those cables there were tiny sparks where the hdmi cable touches the monitor near its port (while I was trying to insert).
About the overclocking. Last week and during the weekend I was trying to see what the maximum achievable cpu frequency was for under 1.3v core voltage. It went to 3.95ghz, so I did short tests and managed to lower it to 3.6ghz at 1.2v. During the benchmarks and stress tests I was watching voltages and temps. Voltages never went above 1.38-1.39 and even those were only in the first tests and I lowered them immediately. Temps averaged at 80c-90c, once went as high as 95c before I shut it down and once went to 100c. Probably less than 10 minutes combined for both of those. The nvidia I overclocked solely on guides with MSI afterburner. Applied the maximum power limit of 116% and added 50, 75, 100, 125, 150 mhz to core clock and 100, 150, 250, 350, 450 mhz to memory clock respectively. All tested on heaven and valley for benchmarking scores. The last one had a short freeze on the Heaven test but it finished as well. I then lowered the core clock of the gpu to +100mhz and the memory to +300mhz. I thought this procedure for cpu and gpu OC was very conservative. After one black screen on sunday and one on monday I decided to reset everything to default hoping that it wasjust a case of unstable OC, but same thing happens still, hence the post. I'm worried that either I've damaged a hw part (mobo, gpu) or something was delivered damaged and I failed to spot it.
Wondering if anyone has any insight into this? Maybe someone has had a similar issue? I browsed searching for something similar but didn’t see anything exactly like this, the bios issue while using hdmi-dvi throws me off. Finally, SORRY for the wall of text, I’m trying to input as much as possible.
I assembled my pc last week and I’ll start with admitting I started overclocking the cpu very soon after the install. I’ll post details on the endeavor after the issue.
Specs:
Ryzen 7 1700 @3ghz
Asus prime x370 pro
Gygabyte gtx 1060 3gb GV-N1060WF2OC-3GD
Gskill flarex 2x8 2400 Mhz
WD black 256 pcie nvme ssd
Corsair cx550m 550w
Right now the pc is on its default clock, after a bios reset. The issue is that at random times during general use, no load, the pc will hang. Screen turns black followed by a “no signal”. Mobo and wraith spire leds are on and fans continue to spin at the last speed they were (they don’t go to max). While it’s like this holding the power button for 5 seconds doesn’t do anything. The only thing I can do is switch off and on the psu, after which it would boot normally. Then the pc would work normally until the next crash. There is nothing in the event log except for kernel power errors but those are at the times I turn the pc on. I tried waiting a few minutes after a black screen yesterday just to see if there is anything logged at that exact time and there was nothing.
Another issue arose this morning after I saw a suggestion that it might be the vid cable so I switched the hdmi-hdmi cable with a dvi-d (GPU) to hdmi (monitor) which I had on hand. Now the pc would boot again BUT there was no bios splash screen and spamming del makes the pc reboot it seems (monitor going from no signal to black). But if I wait it would show directly at the windows logon loading screen. With hdmi-hdmi I can see the asus logos and access the bios. Also to add – while switching those cables there were tiny sparks where the hdmi cable touches the monitor near its port (while I was trying to insert).
About the overclocking. Last week and during the weekend I was trying to see what the maximum achievable cpu frequency was for under 1.3v core voltage. It went to 3.95ghz, so I did short tests and managed to lower it to 3.6ghz at 1.2v. During the benchmarks and stress tests I was watching voltages and temps. Voltages never went above 1.38-1.39 and even those were only in the first tests and I lowered them immediately. Temps averaged at 80c-90c, once went as high as 95c before I shut it down and once went to 100c. Probably less than 10 minutes combined for both of those. The nvidia I overclocked solely on guides with MSI afterburner. Applied the maximum power limit of 116% and added 50, 75, 100, 125, 150 mhz to core clock and 100, 150, 250, 350, 450 mhz to memory clock respectively. All tested on heaven and valley for benchmarking scores. The last one had a short freeze on the Heaven test but it finished as well. I then lowered the core clock of the gpu to +100mhz and the memory to +300mhz. I thought this procedure for cpu and gpu OC was very conservative. After one black screen on sunday and one on monday I decided to reset everything to default hoping that it wasjust a case of unstable OC, but same thing happens still, hence the post. I'm worried that either I've damaged a hw part (mobo, gpu) or something was delivered damaged and I failed to spot it.
Wondering if anyone has any insight into this? Maybe someone has had a similar issue? I browsed searching for something similar but didn’t see anything exactly like this, the bios issue while using hdmi-dvi throws me off. Finally, SORRY for the wall of text, I’m trying to input as much as possible.
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