The screen turns black and the fan begins to run at a high volume.
The screen turns black and the fan begins to run at a high volume.
Hello,
I’m trying to understand if someone else has faced a similar problem. My PC is quite old and was functioning well until recently. Recently, my screen would suddenly go completely black and I’d hear a very loud fan noise from the PC, which stopped after a restart. Everything works normally afterward. The GPU and CPU temperatures look normal during games, but I can’t consistently reproduce the issue. It seems to occur mostly when I switch tabs away from a game or browse the web, or even when I’m not playing anything at all. I don’t know which component is causing it—could be the power supply, CPU, GPU, or something else. I have no spare parts and can’t reliably recreate the problem because it happens randomly.
System details:
CPU: Intel i5 13600K
GPU: Gigabite RTX 4090 Windforce
PSU: Seasonic 850W FOCUS GX Series 80 PLUS gold
Motherboard: Gigabyte B760 DSH3 DDR4
RAM: Kingston FURY Renegade, 32GB DDR4, 3600MHz CL16 Dual channel kit
How are you managing to keep the processor cool? What are the temperatures during problems? Which BIOS version is installed on your motherboard? How recent is the power supply unit in your system? You might have considered using a 1KW PSU instead of a lower wattage one while running an RTX4090.
It's not the best CPU cooler but it gets the job done. It's one of those cheap Coolermaster Hyper EVO coolers.
I don't think temperatures are an issue, because they are fine whenever I check them during gaming. Both CPU and GPU don't usually go higher than 65 degrees celsius. But honestly I can't tell because I'm not constantly monitoring them when I'm doing random web browsing. Like I said, it seems to happen when I'm not even using my PC that much. Happened today when it was just sitting idle with nothing but discord opened. It never even happened when I was running something more intense.
PSU is 2.5 years old. Originally bought it for the RTX 3080 but never changed it after I upgraded to the 4090, since everything seemed to work just fine. Not sure about the BIOS version. It's the stock version that came with the motherboard. Never updated. Though I don't know if that would be an issue because nothing happened for over a year and I haven't changed anything. This started happening fairly recently.