Vernoss
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Hello!
New to the forum. Made an account to post about this issue, but seeing as I'm getting more into rig building, I'll hopefully stick around a bit too!
Anyway, 2 days ago, my GTX 1070 in my ASUS ROG G20CB seemed to die. Right before it happened, I installed the Java SE Environment, and loaded some textures and a shader into Minecraft. About 10 minutes later, my screen went black without warning.
The computer was still on, but nothing was on the display. So I turned the computer off with the button, and attempted to restart it, hoping it would fix itself. No dice. So I switched to the HDMI out of the integrated graphics, and lo and behold, I had a display again.
But I wasn't sure what caused my display to go out in the first place. It was either graphics card, PCI slot, or power supply. So I took the video card to a local computer shop to see if he could test it on one of his rigs. He plugs it in and it immediately started smoking (this was new - didn't smoke before), so we determined the card was done for.
Begrudgingly, I ordered a new graphics card, and went home, resorting to integrated graphics and Youtubing until the new card came in (this was last night).
This morning I got up, powered my computer on, and surprisingly came to the blue screen of death, with the note: Critical Process Died. I spent 14 hours trying to troubleshoot. Between failed system repairs, failed command prompts, failed system restore, I got fed up with it and decided to just format the card (this is my M.2 960 EVO boot drive), and reinstall Windows. Unfortunately, in my frustration, I forgot to back up the contents of my desktop using my other boot drive (some screen shots and random things), because I knew most of my important stuff was on my other drives.
So I did the Windows installation, and all seems to be working well now. But I was never able to determine what could have caused this to happen. Is it possible that a failed graphics card would somehow corrupt the system/boot? And if so, why did it not happen until the next day? Also, why would my graphics card have failed in the first place? I have good ventilation, but I did see that there was a lot of dust in it when I took it out. Guess I should air it out more than once a year. But again, it didn't smoke originally, so it's hard to say what actually happened. The card was at least 3 years old, but I figured it'd go at least a couple more. Drivers and everything were all up to date. I know I'm probably not giving enough information. I don't expect exact answers or solutions, just ideas as to what could have possibly happened.
Thoughts/opinions?
New to the forum. Made an account to post about this issue, but seeing as I'm getting more into rig building, I'll hopefully stick around a bit too!
Anyway, 2 days ago, my GTX 1070 in my ASUS ROG G20CB seemed to die. Right before it happened, I installed the Java SE Environment, and loaded some textures and a shader into Minecraft. About 10 minutes later, my screen went black without warning.
The computer was still on, but nothing was on the display. So I turned the computer off with the button, and attempted to restart it, hoping it would fix itself. No dice. So I switched to the HDMI out of the integrated graphics, and lo and behold, I had a display again.
But I wasn't sure what caused my display to go out in the first place. It was either graphics card, PCI slot, or power supply. So I took the video card to a local computer shop to see if he could test it on one of his rigs. He plugs it in and it immediately started smoking (this was new - didn't smoke before), so we determined the card was done for.
Begrudgingly, I ordered a new graphics card, and went home, resorting to integrated graphics and Youtubing until the new card came in (this was last night).
This morning I got up, powered my computer on, and surprisingly came to the blue screen of death, with the note: Critical Process Died. I spent 14 hours trying to troubleshoot. Between failed system repairs, failed command prompts, failed system restore, I got fed up with it and decided to just format the card (this is my M.2 960 EVO boot drive), and reinstall Windows. Unfortunately, in my frustration, I forgot to back up the contents of my desktop using my other boot drive (some screen shots and random things), because I knew most of my important stuff was on my other drives.
So I did the Windows installation, and all seems to be working well now. But I was never able to determine what could have caused this to happen. Is it possible that a failed graphics card would somehow corrupt the system/boot? And if so, why did it not happen until the next day? Also, why would my graphics card have failed in the first place? I have good ventilation, but I did see that there was a lot of dust in it when I took it out. Guess I should air it out more than once a year. But again, it didn't smoke originally, so it's hard to say what actually happened. The card was at least 3 years old, but I figured it'd go at least a couple more. Drivers and everything were all up to date. I know I'm probably not giving enough information. I don't expect exact answers or solutions, just ideas as to what could have possibly happened.
Thoughts/opinions?
