About four days ago I built my first PC from scratch with no help. I am positive everything is plugged in correctly and there are no loose connections on the Mobo. the full build is here. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/P83nwV The first day it booted up fine and I got windows installed with almost all of my third party software, iTunes, VLC, Steam, etc. all done...Then I downloaded a few games, CSGO, PUBG, Ghost Recon, and Forza Horizon. When i started up Forza, it let me drive around for a few minutes, then the screen got these green pixels all over it, and the whole PC crashed, not just the game. It tried to reboot, but the GPU would not load am an image, I couldn't even get into bios. I left it unplugged from the wall for a couple hours then came back to it.
When I came back it booted up just fine again but I had to change the resolution back to 1080p. I got all my things going again and was messaging some friends about the problem when one of them suggested I try a lower scale game. So I got onto CSGO and started running a game just fine when all of the sudden it did the same green pixels and crashed, again it tried to reboot itself but would not load any image from the GPU. I unplugged it after about 15 mins of frustration and left it for an hour or so. When I came back again and booted it up, it pretty much did a system resume. Everything was the same, I didn't have to change any keyboard settings or lights, all my display settings were the same too. Then I started some homework and was running some simple diagnostics on one screen and the other had Netflix streaming. Not 10 minutes into this bootup, the whole thing crashed...I was not in-game. At that point, my GPU was under 11% load and only at 36C.
This is becoming so frustrating at this point because all I want to do is basic computer things, typing documents for homework and checking facebook. I can do without gaming until I figure it out, but apparently I cannot even do the basic things with the GPU plugged in, I say that because last night my cousin suggested I take the GPU out and see if the computer boots up and doesn't crash (thus eliminating the possibility of it being the mobo or CPU) After surgically removing the GTX 1080 I put it back into the static proof bag and inside the box, just for protection. I booted the computer up with the DVI-D port plugged into the Mobo directly, with an HDMI to my secondary monitor. It started up just fine and I decided to say screw it and try and load a game, just on my intel i7 6700K...It loaded CSGO with some lower graphics, but it ran it just fine. And I had a movie streaming on my other monitor, just to test it out. After about 45 minutes of this, it never crashed.
Feeling confident I downloaded AIDA64 to run some stress tests. I ran the tests on CPU, RAM, Local Discs and the GPU in the CPU. it ran them on at 94%-100% for roughly 3.5 hours and nothing failed. When I stopped the test everything went back to normal, there was no lag. Then I shut her down and reinserted the GPU. When I booted back up it all worked fine then I decided to run the same stress tests on the GtX 1080...Almost immediately it started lagging extremely bad, I couldn't control my mouse or anything. Working on 100% workload never actually caused the computer to crash, but it was so laggy on the screen I couldn't click anything. After about 20 mins of watching it struggle to present a clear and smooth image, i stopped the test. The computer went back to not lagging and I thought, maybe it has fixed itself. So I restarted Ghost recon and felt very confident because I played for about 20 mins. Nearly completed the first mission. Then my friend went to message me on steam so I minimized the game. As soon as the game hit the taskbar, the computer crashed again.
I have no clue about any of this stuff. 5 days ago I didn't know where the Hard drive plugged into the MOBO. I have since figured it out and I know for a fact everything is plugged into the correct ports. I now just don't know where to go. Does it sound like software? or Hardware? if it is hardware, is it the power supply? do I just need a stronger supply?
At this point, any suggestion is one i will follow through with. Please Help.
---First Time Builder
When I came back it booted up just fine again but I had to change the resolution back to 1080p. I got all my things going again and was messaging some friends about the problem when one of them suggested I try a lower scale game. So I got onto CSGO and started running a game just fine when all of the sudden it did the same green pixels and crashed, again it tried to reboot itself but would not load any image from the GPU. I unplugged it after about 15 mins of frustration and left it for an hour or so. When I came back again and booted it up, it pretty much did a system resume. Everything was the same, I didn't have to change any keyboard settings or lights, all my display settings were the same too. Then I started some homework and was running some simple diagnostics on one screen and the other had Netflix streaming. Not 10 minutes into this bootup, the whole thing crashed...I was not in-game. At that point, my GPU was under 11% load and only at 36C.
This is becoming so frustrating at this point because all I want to do is basic computer things, typing documents for homework and checking facebook. I can do without gaming until I figure it out, but apparently I cannot even do the basic things with the GPU plugged in, I say that because last night my cousin suggested I take the GPU out and see if the computer boots up and doesn't crash (thus eliminating the possibility of it being the mobo or CPU) After surgically removing the GTX 1080 I put it back into the static proof bag and inside the box, just for protection. I booted the computer up with the DVI-D port plugged into the Mobo directly, with an HDMI to my secondary monitor. It started up just fine and I decided to say screw it and try and load a game, just on my intel i7 6700K...It loaded CSGO with some lower graphics, but it ran it just fine. And I had a movie streaming on my other monitor, just to test it out. After about 45 minutes of this, it never crashed.
Feeling confident I downloaded AIDA64 to run some stress tests. I ran the tests on CPU, RAM, Local Discs and the GPU in the CPU. it ran them on at 94%-100% for roughly 3.5 hours and nothing failed. When I stopped the test everything went back to normal, there was no lag. Then I shut her down and reinserted the GPU. When I booted back up it all worked fine then I decided to run the same stress tests on the GtX 1080...Almost immediately it started lagging extremely bad, I couldn't control my mouse or anything. Working on 100% workload never actually caused the computer to crash, but it was so laggy on the screen I couldn't click anything. After about 20 mins of watching it struggle to present a clear and smooth image, i stopped the test. The computer went back to not lagging and I thought, maybe it has fixed itself. So I restarted Ghost recon and felt very confident because I played for about 20 mins. Nearly completed the first mission. Then my friend went to message me on steam so I minimized the game. As soon as the game hit the taskbar, the computer crashed again.
I have no clue about any of this stuff. 5 days ago I didn't know where the Hard drive plugged into the MOBO. I have since figured it out and I know for a fact everything is plugged into the correct ports. I now just don't know where to go. Does it sound like software? or Hardware? if it is hardware, is it the power supply? do I just need a stronger supply?
At this point, any suggestion is one i will follow through with. Please Help.
---First Time Builder
