2 new video cards and two new problems help please

Ok, as some of you might have read my previous posts I upgrades from and Radeon HD 6870 to a Radeon R9 280X. And after a while I had some video driver failures, some flickering on FFXIV etc. I then switched that card for a MSI GTX 970 and things got even worse.

I saw for the first time ever the blue screen on windows. I was stuck on an endless loop and i could not boot my machine at all. I had to format my PC and once reinstalled I get video driver failures and my screen locks with regular things like you tube etc.

What could be wrong_

Maybe a bad PCIe slot on the motherboard?

Is the power supply giving the videocard enough power?

The fact that you continue getting video specific issues even after switching through multiple cards implies another issue.

I have a 750 PSU corsair

Ill try to switch the card on the other slot...

You do have all the proper power connectors plugged into the card, right? Offhand, to me, this suggests that the power supply is going bad...

Yes, I have the 8pin and 6pin connectors on the card.
Everything worked FINE with my PC until i made these card upgrades.

I will switch the slot and let you guys know....

Either a bad PSU, PSU cable or motherboard.

edit

or just really bad luck with 2 GPU's

Ooh, that's one of those nasty problems. PSU going bad seems the most likely. The 970 pulls less power than the 6870, but the R9 280X is waaaay higher. It may have stressed the ageing PSU out.

The PSU is fairly "new" now something weird happened, that is leading me to think its either PSU, RAM or the mobo.

I went "back" and installed the old 6870 and im algo getting some errors.
I now see that horrid blue screen in W10.

With the RADEON ATI R9 280X and I had some screen flickering and some "random" video driver failure has recovered blab la blah.

With the NVIDIA MSI GTX 970 I have screen freezes blue scrrens of death and almsot every time I open the GE Force experience thing.. my pc locks up.

Is there any chance my mobo or ram went bad?

This is weird. I had never had any problems with my pc before trying out the new video cards.

TheGameguru wrote:

PSU cable

I didn't think to suggest this, but it's a possibility. Does your PSU have another set of PCIe power cables you can switch to?

I have a modular corsair 750 TX... i will switch all the cables tonight.....
I ran Windows 10 mem test.. and no problems were detected

I went further and ran memtest86+ and no errors..
I hope it is just a bad cable.

I was doing some tests and when I was about to watch a youtube video my pc froze....

Darkhaund wrote:

I have a modular corsair 750 TX... i will switch all the cables tonight.....
I ran Windows 10 mem test.. and no problems were detected

I went further and ran memtest86+ and no errors..
I hope it is just a bad cable.

I was doing some tests and when I was about to watch a youtube video my pc froze....

Can you get your hands on another PSU to test?

Yes I have an "older" cooler master 650 watt...

should i try it? i is non modular

Darkhaund wrote:

Yes I have an "older" cooler master 650 watt...

should i try it? i is non modular

I definitely would. It sounds like you've ruled out almost everything except for the power supply and the mother board

I will do that in the next few mintues..... I will let yhou guys know

I will just connect the basic stuff and leaving out the additional HDDs, etc.
I will just connect the video card, SSD, ram and optical drive

...I think his pc just murdered him!

It's quiet, too quiet!

I have an idea on the issue with the 280x. Couldn't figure out from the posts if you still have it, but if so I think I can help. I also purchased a 280x and soon had the same issues. I dealt with it, trying to switch out drivers and finally bought a 970. Anyway, I couldn't let it get me down so I installed the 280 in my GF's PC and started troubleshooting. After a few hours I stumbled upon a post that said "some 280x card come incorrectly overclocked." So I went in to the CCC, went to the GPU overdrive area, and turned it down to 900mhz (make sure you change in both spots) and viola! No issues, runs like a dream, graphics set to high or ultra on most games.

Give this a try.

cartoonin99 wrote:

...I think his pc just murdered him!

It's quiet, too quiet!

No I am still alive...

I had to go home and bring my PC here to my office (i am self employd) and then i had to take out my old 750CX PSU.

So im still here.

I DID keep the 280X and I will install it on my office PC to game from here from time to time or when I want some alone time. Married life has changed my gaming time dramatically and sometimes (i dont know if i am wrong) I want some time for myself. As of late, once I get home seems like my wife is snipping me to get home to hand me the 5 month old baby.

As to turning down the clock.. i turn down BOTH cloks to 900?

Yes, I will try to find and link that describes it (as I said, it was after a delirious few hours of troubleshooting). But I distinctly remember (I'm away travelling for work and don't have access to the PC). But when I changed it there were 2 areas, one was a sort of grid and the other was a horizontal slider. I changed the slider to 900 and it did not prevent the flickering screen, then I changed the grid to 900 and it all stopped. After many reboots and gaming session it is still running strong.

I can give you more detail this weekend if you need it.

wheatabits wrote:

Yes, I will try to find and link that describes it (as I said, it was after a delirious few hours of troubleshooting). But I distinctly remember (I'm away travelling for work and don't have access to the PC). But when I changed it there were 2 areas, one was a sort of grid and the other was a horizontal slider. I changed the slider to 900 and it did not prevent the flickering screen, then I changed the grid to 900 and it all stopped. After many reboots and gaming session it is still running strong.

I can give you more detail this weekend if you need it.

I would appreciate that.

UPDATE!!!

I got a new PSU, another 750 watt.
I got new cables as well and re connected everything agian.

I installed my OLD radeon HD 6870 and every now and theni get black screens on WINDOWS 10. Regular things such as trying to change my profile picture etc.

UAC will blank the screen.. you could try and disable that I guess.

HUGE3 UPDATE

Unless I am mistaken... it is my mobo or CPU.

I tried 3 different video cards
2 different PSU
took out ram....

went even further and intalled UBUNTU and PC crahses. IN UBUNTU before it loads i get this eror PCMI PCC something...