Does your AMD monitor driver keep crashing? Now you can't see anything on your screen.
Does your AMD monitor driver keep crashing? Now you can't see anything on your screen.
I was playing a game with my friends when suddenly my screen went dark and then came back up. It looked super big and the colors were all wrong. My AMD drivers crashed and I tried restarting my computer, but nothing happened since that night. Even though the PC works fine right now, it won't turn on at all. I've swapped out my graphics card, power supply, reset my memory chip, and changed some RAM sticks. But even after swapping in a new power supply, the computer only started once a day before stopping again. After one whole day with no power, anyone else who knows about this could help me?
Here are all the details about my power supply unit. I need to know the brand, model, or part number of this current one too. I also want to ask how long this has been sitting here and whether it was a fresh purchase, a used item, or something refurbished. Finally, can you tell me what brand and model I should get for my new power supply unit? And how old is that replacement thing? Was it bought brand new or just repurchased?
My computer has this motherboard: BIOSTAR B550MH. It uses the AMD Ryzen 5 3500X processor, and the graphics card is an AMD Radeon 5700 XT. The memory sticks are Corsair 16GB running at 3600MHz. I got a power supply from my old computer that's also been replaced by a nice new one called Raidmax Vampire with 700 watts of power. This whole thing runs on Windows 10, and it was all bought around 2021 when it came out brand new. But the old power supply I had is getting really old now.
It looks like my PC is turning on but not working properly. The fans are spinning and the lights show up, but I see nothing on the screens.
This indicates GPU failure. But you were using your RX 5700 XT still? If so, PC can not boot normally when you have a dead GPU and you don't see an image. Low quality PSU. PSU came with mere 3 years of warranty and when you bought your PC in 2021, that makes PSU now 4 years old. Which, given it's warranty length, is actually quite good. Given that the Gigabyte unit still somehow works and wasn't a reason behind why your GPU died on you. Still, since your PSU is low quality, past it's expected operation date and you had GPU die in the build, i suspect PSU was the one that killed your GPU. That PSU has even worse build quality than your Gigabyte unit. Another low quality unit, borderline crap quality. 1. New, good quality PSU. 2. New (or borrowed) known to work GPU. New PSU is needed so, that your old low quality PSUs, won't kill new (or borrowed) GPU. New (or borrowed), known to work, GPU is needed to validate if your GPU is toast. When image shows up and build works fine otherwise, then it was easy solution. Your old GPU is dead (most likely killed by the poor PSU you have). And fix is new GPU and PSU. But if the image doesn't show up even with 2nd, known to work GPU, then one of the following (or all of them) are dead: CPU, MoBo, RAM. So, 1st, new, good quality PSU is needed. If you plan to keep RX 5700 XT (IF it survived) or equally same TDP GPU (225W), then 650W PSU is minimum. Though, i'd be comfortable with 750W unit. Good PSUs to go for, are: Seasonic Focus/Vertex/PRIME, Corsair RMx/RMi/HXi/AXi, Super Flower Leadex Gold/Platinum/Titanium. Or if you want the latest ATX 3.0/3.1 PSU, then: https://hwbusters.com/best_picks/best-at...busters/3/ (My 3x PCs are also powered by Seasonic. I have 2x PRIME TX-650 units and one Focus PX-550 unit. Full specs with pics in my sig.) Once you have 2nd, good quality PSU, look towards 2nd, known to work GPU (either buy one or borrow). Then, when PC is powered by new, good quality PSU, put the 2nd, known to work GPU into the build and look if you can see an image.