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  1. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    I just heard back from Zotac that the GPU failed their tests, so they're sending me a replacement. It's a bummer that it was defective and I had to go through this, but I'm so relieved that I now know what the problem is and don't have to keep trying to solve the mystery anymore. Anyhow, I...
  2. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    Thanks so much for all your wonderful help! I really appreciate all the time you've given this issue. No problem about need to close the thread, of course. I'll write/post again when I get a response from Zotac. The officially received the GPU a few days ago, so not it's up to them, and...
  3. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    Well time will tell now because Zotac accepted my return merchandise authorization request, so hopefully in a couple of weeks they'll either send me back a brand new RTX 3070 or tell me it was totally fine all along. Also, I swapped out my old Seasonic 750 watt gold PSU into the current system...
  4. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    I'll keep digging around a little bit in the BIOS. This was from the Advanced tab, but there are a ton of settings and I'm not very familiar with them in general. Just so I'm clear, IF the PSU is the problem, you're saying it would be because it was defective or something, not because an 850...
  5. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    I'm not 100% sure if this is what I should be looking for (see pic below), but for my ASUS mobo it seems the "Maximum CPU Core Temperature" is set to "Auto," as are a few other related settings on this page. There doesn't seem to be an actual "thermal shut down" setting though, at least not that...
  6. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    I think the max CPU fan was low in the last post because I had basically just powered the system up and was only using Chrome for a few minutes. But here's a snapshot of the system after doing several more demanding tasks. I'm pretty sure the fans get going once there's a demand. Anyway, so...
  7. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    It looks like these crashes aren't actually creating dump files. Windows is configured correctly to do this, and there are a few dump files from several weeks/months ago. But none are being written as a result of the black screen shutdowns I've been having recently. Could this be further...
  8. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    Excellent! I'm going to have to get to this at the end of my day (which might be the next one for you), but I'll do everything you suggested here and get back with a full report. Thank you again so much, Phill!
  9. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    Oh I'm sorry about that! I guess I didn't quite understand what you were asking. :confused: Given what's been happening with my system, I suppose I should just say the "computer shuts down unexpectedly" as opposed to "crashes" since I'm not quite sure of the culprit yet. Here's exactly what...
  10. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    Well, I uploaded it to my Google Docs account, so I'm hosting it and you can see it here. Thanks!
  11. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    Sorry if this is my fault here, but it doesn't appear that the MTB file show up in the post even though I'm attaching it to my reply. And strangely, when I try to cut & paste the text in the message box itself, I get the message "Oops! We ran into some problems. Please try again later. More...
  12. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    Oh that's odd. I had attached the MTB file to my first and most recent post, but for some reason it didn't stick. Weird.
  13. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    Ah ok, well that would explain why I probably went ahead and got the 3600 RAM when I was collecting parts. I have a feeling I would have caught a pretty obvious problem like my mobo not being able to handle that speed, but I might not have read the super fine print. Anywayz.... Unfortunately...
  14. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    phillpower2, thank you sooo much! I cannot believe I missed this somehow when I was picking the parts for my build. And yes, I believe I did enable XMP when I originally set things up because I wanted to get the speeds up to 3600mhz (even though that's too fast for my mobo, apparently). I'm...
  15. RufusInPhilly

    Solved High GPU stress causing black screen crash

    I've been trying to troubleshoot this issue on my own, but I'm at my wits' end and hoping someone here can help. Fingers crossed! I built my rig about 9 months ago, and things have mostly gone smoothly ... except for very occasional crashes to a black screen when running high-performance games...
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