Gaming PC help?

Question

Okay guys before I go at this pc about 7ish tonight. Anyone have ideas how to fix this problem. Pc keeps getting blue screen of death after popping in a new GPU. Everything before the new GPU was fine. Old GPU was 750ti new one 1080ti. I've uninstalled all the GPU drivers and redownloaded and installed them. Still not helped.

Cpu 9700K overclocked to 5GHz and water cooled.

But like I said the pc crashing only started happening once new GPU was put in.

One blue screen of death error was CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT

Psu evga G3 750W

16GB ram.

Mike has some suggestions we will try later but if anyone else has an idea?

Answer 1

'CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT' happens when you have an unstable overclock or a driver error. You would need to stress test your CPU with programs like Prime95 v29.6, AIDA64, and LinpackExtreme in order to verify stability. Running Cinebench for a couple rounds will not verify stability. If your 9700k can't pass those tests then it's not stable.



What are your BIOS settings? A 9700k would typically need 1.325v to 1.375v at 5ghz with AVX offset at -2 to remain stable. The amount of voltage needed depends on the quality of the CPU.



While gaming GTX 1080ti is using the CPU in different ways than a GTX 750ti ever would which would raise CPU usage. If you're getting higher framerates then your adding a higher workload to the CPU which would be triggering the BSOD issues.



If you have verified stability with every test you can throw at it and you've run those test for hours, then I would suggest trying Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) to clean up the old drivers, then reinstall using the newest drivers that you can get at the GPU manufacturer's website.

Answer 2

Overclocking also overclocks everything else in the system including the FSB and PCI Express devices. Using the new GPU and crashing means the GPU cannot handle the overclock speeds, whereas the old card could...

Time to turn down the OC.

Best to run a test with no OC at all, and ensure the system is stable. If you can run for several days with no crashing, then the hardware is good. Slowly increase the OC until it crashes again, then back off a bit.

Answer 3

yeah... drop your OC on your CPU.... that BSOD means you CPU is not happy. you would know that if you took a whole 3 seconds to google it...