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Random BSOD's, Issues Booting. New Graphics Card
Hey all,
So I just replaced my two GTX 760's with one GTX 980 ti last week, and that's when I started having issues. I've had probably 15 BSOD's in the past week and I can't figure out why. It happens mostly when gaming, but not at any predictable time while gaming. Sometimes it's right when I start a game, and sometimes it happens after a couple of hours. It's also not necessarily while my computer is under load; many of the crashes have been while nothing graphically intense was happening.
The other symptom I'm having is that the computer takes a couple of tries to boot. I usually put it to sleep rather than fully shutting down, but it won't come out of hibernation when I try. It might start for a second and get to the mobo boot screen but that's it. Other times it won't start at all. I press the power button and nothing happens. The only way I can get it to boot then is to pull the power cable from the PSU and wait a couple of seconds -- it boots when I plug it back in.
When I installed the new graphics card I used a driver uninstaller and did a clean install of the latest drivers. I have also run memtest overnight, and it got through 5 passes no problem. I have also removed and reseated my RAM and the graphics card. The only other thing I did was switch from a balanced power plan to a high performance one in Windows' Power Options. That seemed to help a bit with the crashes during games, but it didn't solve anything. I have a feeling it's a power issue, but I don't know how to be sure. The PSU is an 850w Seasonic, so I would think it would be fine.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I guess I'll post system specs too, just in case:
CPU: i5-4670k
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H
Memory: 2x4 Corsair Vengeance
Storage: 1TB WD HDD, 3TB Seagate HDD
Graphics Card: GTX 980 ti
PSU: SeaSonic 850w