Probably just best to buy a cheap $80 monitor or a smart stick to put in the tv at this point
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gshurik
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So when I built my computer in September or so I was getting random BSODs all the way up until last week. My error codes were generic hardware fault error codes.
I did extensive Processor, GPU and SSD tests and found no issues at all. The Blue screens were utterly without pattern. I even ran an extensive 12 hour memtest86 on boot and had no issues.
I posted about it on other tech forums providing dump logs and all I got was a pretty unhelpful response of: "It's hardware, test your parts".
I got to the point where I
1. used different DIMM slots
2. alternated RAM
3. updated the BIOS to a beta branch
Updating the BIOS to the beta branch gave me another problem, an "inaccessible boot device" BSOD on startup. I tried rolling back by flashing it, but no dice.
I ended up formatting the computer in an effort to get my PC booting again (it was a fresh install so I couldn't be bothered to troubleshoot it for days) and lo and behold it fixed my fucking problem.
Endless WHEA BSODs pointing me towards generic hardware faults almost had me replacing parts in order to test stuff but no, a generic fucking FORMAT fixed the problem. God knows why it was telling me I had hardware issues when clearly there was software problems, but either way I've had no BSOD for over 10 days of uptime (I was getting them daily) so I'm assuming that the age old response of turning it off and on again worked.
Cool I guess?
I did extensive Processor, GPU and SSD tests and found no issues at all. The Blue screens were utterly without pattern. I even ran an extensive 12 hour memtest86 on boot and had no issues.
I posted about it on other tech forums providing dump logs and all I got was a pretty unhelpful response of: "It's hardware, test your parts".
I got to the point where I
1. used different DIMM slots
2. alternated RAM
3. updated the BIOS to a beta branch
Updating the BIOS to the beta branch gave me another problem, an "inaccessible boot device" BSOD on startup. I tried rolling back by flashing it, but no dice.
I ended up formatting the computer in an effort to get my PC booting again (it was a fresh install so I couldn't be bothered to troubleshoot it for days) and lo and behold it fixed my fucking problem.
Endless WHEA BSODs pointing me towards generic hardware faults almost had me replacing parts in order to test stuff but no, a generic fucking FORMAT fixed the problem. God knows why it was telling me I had hardware issues when clearly there was software problems, but either way I've had no BSOD for over 10 days of uptime (I was getting them daily) so I'm assuming that the age old response of turning it off and on again worked.
Cool I guess?
Whea errors are caused by software issues more than hardware issues. It doesnt really mean the hardware did something wrong, just that something in the process of communicating with the hardware has gone wrong and thrown an error. Can be driver problems, corrupt memory, bad hardware, etc...
gshurik
Tranny Chaser
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I guess I can now add that to the memory bank of computer fixes. Honestly any time I've had BSODs in the past, it's been software, but the other tech forum I used was so adamant that it was hardware (it was run by the guy who created the commonly used dump tool for diagnostics) that I just assumed they were right.
I really wish I had asked here first, because a format is an easy fix.
I really wish I had asked here first, because a format is an easy fix.
In my experience, hardware will straight up crash or freeze a system instead of causing a bsod, short of faulty memory
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gshurik
Tranny Chaser
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That has been my experience too, or straight up restart with no fanfare.
The only issues I seem to be getting with this build now are unusually slow SSD speeds, but I'm not really sure why that is. Granted it's a pretty old SSD and it doesn't feel too bad, but any benchmark is showing it being super slow.
I am able to boot up in about 7 seconds so it's fine I guess lol
Ssd's decrease in performance after a lengthy period of time. There are ways to testing the health of an ssd drive. Check the manufacturer site and they'll probably have a utility for it. I think it happens far quicker if it doesn't support Trim or it isn't enabled. Other issues could be the aata cable or port
TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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@Dom
It appears my monitor issue was twofold. While I am absolutely certain the display port on my old monitor was broken (tested with two other PCs) there is some other fuckery going on I don't really understand. I've updated everything and I ended up making a Reddit post about it as I can't find any other information. To avoid reposting here it is.
It appears my monitor issue was twofold. While I am absolutely certain the display port on my old monitor was broken (tested with two other PCs) there is some other fuckery going on I don't really understand. I've updated everything and I ended up making a Reddit post about it as I can't find any other information. To avoid reposting here it is.
So the way I understand the situation is that youve used a new cable and a new monitor and new drivers the problem persists.
Some other things to try:
Disable freesync on any of the monitors
Try duplicating instead of extending the desktop
Try setting both of them down to 60hz
Look in your device manager and see if windows is using any specific named drivers for the displays instead of generic ones
Look your specific GPU up for other people having multi monitor issues
Hit windows key + p and see if extending through the window that will come up works
Let me know if any of these steps bring something up that might be an indicator of what the problem is
Other than those, personally my next step would be to either reformat Windows if I couldn't get another GPU to use to test, or just replace the GPU and return it if the problem persists
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Mr. Poopybutthole
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Yeah so some progress. I installed the specific driver for the Samsung monitor. When I did this and restarted I saw the windows splash screen on the blackscreen monitor until windows booted up and then the other monitor became the dominant one.
On your list:
1. Did nothing
2. Did nothing.
3. Did nothing.
4. There IS a generic PNP driver, uninstall this?
5. Been looking but nothing like I am describing anywhere else.
Generic drivers are fine. I was more wanting to see if there was a specific driver for it which could be causing problems.
Since you've ruled out the possibility of it being the cable or the monitor, the likely culprits at this point are the GPU, and then something fucky in the background with drivers or windows. I've never encountered this this problem when it wasn't the cable or the port on either the GPU or monitor, so I don't know what else to suggest other than replace the GPU or try a fresh windows install (got an extra hard srive you could slap one on instead of reformatting?)
Oh, and you could try fucking around with custom resolution utility and see if you can create a res/Hz that works.
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Mr. Poopybutthole
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Yeah. I got black screen on this no matter what. I never got No Signal though. But I was getting to the windows splash screen and I did not get black screen until I ran it first and set the resolution to 1080p. But when I used the display port from the Samsung to my work PC it works just fine again also.
So I have it working now... However I am using the HDMI port for this monitor and the Display port for the other. Previously I used DP for both monitors with no issue. I wanted to use the DP to make use of the 144hz.. but until I find out why its doing this I will settle for 120hz.
This shit legitimately makes no sense to me though.
I do not think I am going crazy here but my previous monitor just got NO SIGNAL from the Display Port no matter what PC I used it on. Here it works fine just shows black.