Black screen of death

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Dragonsmight

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My computer has been black screening lately while playing games. Has happened on FFXIV, minecraft, TF2, L4D2.

I can still here audio which is weird. If I'm in TS3 I can still press my mouse 3 button and can talk and hear with people in the TS. I tried typing in chat while black screened in FFXIV but people said they couldn't see what I typed.

This has been happening the last few months with different video drivers. Attached is the rig I built about 7 years ago the only thing I have replaced is the video card and the memory which are now as follows:

EVGA 025-P3-1579-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) HD 2560MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

2 x Dominator® — 6GB Triple Channel DDR3 Memory Kit (TR3X6G1600C8D) (Total 12gb)


Any help would be appreciated.

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A couple things here.

1. That power supply is 7 years old, it may be starting to fail on you. Either boot to the bios to see if there is a list of voltages or download and run HWmonitor to check for voltages.
2. Something is up with the new card if everything was fine before the new video card.

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
 
Thanks for the reply! I have actually had the upgraded card for a few years now as well. I did download HWmonitor from some post I found when trying to google the problem. Have not had a chance to monitor temps / wattage while gaming yet but I will do so this evening and let you know.
 
Yeah it could be power supply related. Can you try that GTX 570 in another machine or maybe you could get a new power supply? That will confirm if it's a power issue or not.

I'm guessing you've upgraded the OS since you bought the machine but I guess you could try reinstalling the OS and/or graphics card drivers? See http://www.computerforum.com/thread...all-graphics-drivers-amd-nvidia-intel.230370/ for instructions.

It's more likely a hardware issue though.


On a side note: A 2.5GB GTX 570? I thought most 570s were 1.25GB? I don't recall ever seeing any 2.5GB models!
 
Up the gpu core voltage by 0.1V using MSI afterburner, remove ALL system over-clocks (where applicable) and report back.
 
The fermi range was stock underclocked IMO and required a small core voltage boost to make it stable. My 580s were like that too. Many people didn't realise.
 
The PSU never went above 150W while I was running a game and still black screened. I did take out the OC on my processer when the problem started. I will up the voltage as Okedokey suggested and see how it runs. Thank you everyone for the replies.
 
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