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bigguyhawaii
9 years ago

lost video input to monitor

I know it's a long shot since others have complained for years over different os. But maybe someone here might know a fix. Randomly I'm losing my video input with only a hard reset to recover. It's so random that it can happen anywhere from never to 3 times a night with me just quitting after the 3rd time. I've tried other solutions like cleaning out my pc, changing hdmi cable, using the display port on my gpu (but using a converter since my monitor only has hdmi). Disabling all sounds except for my corsair wireless headset, older drivers for gpu, swapping out ram, deleting bf4, reinstalling bf1. CPU does run on the hotter side, got a new case today and installing h100i v2 cooler tonight to test that but I've experienced the issue after 2 minutes of play. Btw this only happens in bf1, never in bf4 with the same setup.

stress tested the cpu and gpu outside the game with no crashes.

my setup: fx 8350 stock liquid cooled, gigabyte ga990fxa udp3 ver. 3.0, ripjaw ram 2133 8g,  evga gtx 980 ftw at factory overclock, aoc 27 led monitor, corsair ax860i psu,

corsair h2100 wireless headset,  razor mamba tournament mouse, razer tartarus game pad, and a cheap wireless keyboard,  samsung ssd(s).

 

ran the game settings in medium, high, ultra, dx 11, dx 12,  resolution 100 to 200.  all resulted in the black screen of death LOL.

battlefield 1

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    You have mentioned neither the thermal numbers on your video graphics device, nor the condition of your power supply, either of which can create exactly the symptom you refer to, and is common enough that a thorough Google or Yahoo search would turn those two up.  A hot GPU, caused by either excessive lint collection in the cooler shroud, a failing fan, poor air circulation within the case, or incorrect application of thermal paste, will shut itself down to avoid burning out. 

    PSUs get hot and lose efficiency over time, faster for high-rate, high output units.  If filled with lint, they stop delivering adequate power, and the GPU tends to be the one unit drawing the very most, so when there's not enough juice to it, then it stops working.  PSUs lose about 10% of capacity a year for moderate size units, somewhat more than that for those in the 700 to 900 Watt range. 

  • bigguyhawaii's avatar
    bigguyhawaii
    9 years ago

    i'm at work and can't remember the exact numbers, but the gpu temp is running fine about 52c while stress testing.  the cpu was at 146f (corsair link) checking just after a round.  when the game crashes i can't pull those numbers.  the psu is monitored  via the corsair link program and thoses numbers are fine.  

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