About a month ago PC started crashing to a black screen, PC and components still on, just no display. This only happens playing games like Overwatch or Red Dead 2. Occasionally it will happen watching Youtube.
GPU Fan is “clicking”.
Whenever a crash happened, I had to hold the power button down to shut off and reboot my system. When it rebooted, it ALWAYS showed installing windows updates. I updated Windows and this would still happen.
For a while, I thought it was the GPU, so I ran Cinebench and OSST GPU tests. Works fine. However, OSST PSU and CPU Tests crashes about 3-4 minutes in, to a BSOD, which I never see normally. Gives me the code CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT for both.
Last week, reinstalled Windows, updated BIOS, did fresh install of GPU/CPU drivers.
Tonight, got BSOD VIDEO_INTERNAL_SCHEDULER after booting to desktop. Gaming going to black screen and restarts on own. No BSOD then.
Do I just need to replace my GPU?
Hardware:
CPU: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8 GB Ram x2, so 16 GB Ram
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z590 AORUS ULTRA (U3E1), upgraded to ver F8 BIOS
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
SSD: Samsung SSD 980 1TB (SSD)
OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Cooler: Lian Li GALAHAD AIO Cooler
PSU: MSI MPG A650GF
Dumps:
- Before Reinstall of Windows, from before: https://files.catbox.moe/o99kj1.zip
- From tonight, after fresh install of windows and being able to game for several hours no problems, from BSOD for VIDEO_INTERNAL_SCHEDULER: https://files.catbox.moe/v0vwmn.zip
Both the CPU and GPU are malfunctioning under load. I guess they could both be bad, but it’s probably best to improve things they share first. Like making sure stuff isn’t overheating and possibly replacing the PSU with a (much) high capacity unit (850 watts is often good to aim for).
According to the PSU tier list the MPG A650GF is probably a good unit, with some caveats, but it may just be too small for your system or your unit could be bad.
It is a 2 year old build so I would imagine the PSU could be doing bad, I can try swapping it out first. I thought 650w was enough for my system but recently with these crashes I’m worried my parts are getting damaged—- PSU too :(