• Built New PC, Artifacts/Freezing on Wake from Sleep
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So I built my new PC a few weeks ago, having ordered all of my parts. I didn't notice it at first, but now I seem to be having a weird issue when waking my computer from standby: the desktop is totally corrupted and messed up, although the mouse still moves. Ctr-Alt-Del causes it to freeze. I'll post a picture next time it happens. Here are my parts: PSU: Corsair 450w builder series CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE GPU: XFX radeon 6750 1GB RAM: 2x 4GB Corsair XMS3 HDD: 1TB WD Caviar Blue Case: Coolermaster Elite 331 Judging by the graphical artifacts I'd assume it's a GPU issue, whether it's faulty or it's not getting enough power on wake or something - would that seem right to you guys? anyone else had issues like this? Thanks for your help guys :)
You missed your motherboard specs... In my semi-profesional opinion, as well as past personal experience. Your issue is with your motherboard. Your motherboard sets the parameters for power consumption and reactivation protocol. A faulty bios setting, or an outdated mobo driver could be cause the problem with your videocards output upon wakeup. Firstly, to make sure i'm not completely wrong(lol), do a fresh install of your video card drivers with the latest amd driver. When this doesn't work(i'm most certain it wont.), Go into your bios, set your bios settings back to default if you've changed them in any matter, then flash your bios to a newer version. Once you've proven it stable, update your motherboard drivers. I had this happen to a personal computer of mine a couple years back, I fixed the problem with a reformat(which it was long over due for anyways.) So I deduced the problem using my logic to the motherboard and it's association with its powersaving technology. I assume this happens mainly with higher performance cards that need more power than regular desktop cards. And the problem doesn't occur by the waking up of the computer, but by the power down of the sleep procress, the motherboard has to tell the video card that the computer is powering down, it the videocard doesn't powers down before the motherboard, it will create artifacts on the screen. Furthermore, the freezing is the mobo chipset being confused because of the irregular power consumption by the video card upon boot up.
Oh sorry, motherboard's a Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3L. I just installed the drivers that came on the CDs, so yeah, most likely they're outdated as well. Thanks for your help, I'll try all of those when I get up tomorrow :)
BIOS and motherboard chipset driver were already at the most recent version, I installed the latest graphics drivers from AMD, the problem still persists. I asked an IT technician at my school, who's a pretty capable guy, and showed him a photo, he said it was most likely a graphics driver problem, and I should check event viewer for any mention of driver failure or incompatibility; there was none, but there was a string of about fifty of the same error at the time it had last crashed, with the ntfs service complaining that the disk was corrupt and unusable. Naturally, I booted into safe mode and ran a chkdsk on the hard disk; no issues. Any ideas, guys?
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