I am trying to play my games, but I get no signal and my computer restarts on its own.
I am trying to play my games, but I get no signal and my computer restarts on its own.
Hey everyone. My PC setup is a Ryzen 5 2600 with a Sapphire Pulse RX 570, 8GB RAM running at 3000MHz with a 650W PSU, and Windows 10 version 21H2. I installed the graphics card drivers in version 22.4.2, but before that I used driver 22.5.2, which made me have this issue so I'm trying to go back to an older version. But for a long time now I keep getting this problem. What's up is when I play games my screen goes black and there is no signal even though the computer keeps working and it restarts on its own. The games that caused problems were Marvel's Avengers, Valorant, FIFA 22, Genshin Impact, Fortnite, Forza Horizon 4. My temps are normal and my power settings are normal too but I still get this problem.
Could you tell me exactly what the power supply is like? Who made it, what model number does it have, and how old is it roughly?
I've been using that power supply since 2019, and I used it across several systems over the years. Checking the voltages on those units shows they look completely fine. The issue started only when I updated my graphics card driver. So I don't think the power supply is to blame here.
Remove any graphics overclocking driver, check for overheating on the cpu and gpu. If you are using too much power through the graphics card's bus, the motherboard protection circuits will kick in to stop the bus from melting or catching fire. They do this by resetting the cpu. Good power supplies can also reset it when they detect an overload. This happens by changing a signal to the motherboard so that the protection circuits take over. A hot gpu pulls more power than a cool gpu, and the result looks exactly like a bad gpu overclock. Blow out all dust from the gpu fans. Underclock your gpu if you cannot find the cause of the problem (to see if it helps). New drivers can change the default power and heat use profiles on a gpu. But then so does summer and a warmer room. Last summer, I had to put a big fan outside my case so I could run my pc during the day.