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turret1234

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    windows randomly crashes and shows only vertical lines
    « on: November 01, 2016, 04:06:30 PM »
    okay so for about the past month or 2 now regardless of what im doing windows within a few hours my sound will cut and whatever im doing will stop responding and then a few seconds later my screen suddenly jumps to this http://i.imgur.com/bn1RG5J.jpg and i have to entirly restart windows at that point and hope it doesnt crash again its been doing this more frequently and as fair as i can tell it leaves no error files. i dont think its anything overheating or being broken as my temps tend to be stable. it seems to do this far more frequently after i resume my pc from sleep but will sometimes do this even on a fresh boot up. however after if i restart my pc by shutting off the psu and turning it back on the pc doesnt seem to crash at all.
    im fairly certain its not a hardware issue as it ran fine for about a day when i had a live ubuntu cd running to see if it was just my hardware. i also reinstalled every driver incase it was a driver issue but to no avail
    my system is as follows
    windows 7, custom built pc intel xeon e3-1231, R9 390, 8gb ram 128gb ssd and a 1tb hard drive, and a wireless card
    any help would be nice also if this is in the wrong sub forum sorry

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    Re: windows randomly crashes and shows only vertical lines
    « Reply #1 on: November 01, 2016, 05:14:37 PM »
    Most likely this is a hardware ageing problem and not a software issue. But I am often wrong. Can you restart in sage mode?
    You say the temps are OK. Even so, try leaving the PC fully off for an ;hour and then restart it and see how long it goes doing something ordinary. There may be a component that is heat sensitive.

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    Re: windows randomly crashes and shows only vertical lines
    « Reply #2 on: November 01, 2016, 05:38:09 PM »
    Was this PC moved recently ? ?
    Where did you get the drivers from ? ?
    Have you checked your Temps ? ?
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      Re: windows randomly crashes and shows only vertical lines
      « Reply #3 on: November 03, 2016, 07:33:06 PM »
      Most likely this is a hardware ageing problem and not a software issue. But I am often wrong. Can you restart in sage mode?
      You say the temps are OK. Even so, try leaving the PC fully off for an ;hour and then restart it and see how long it goes doing something ordinary. There may be a component that is heat sensitive.
      i did that and it worked for noticably longer but it eventually crashed. that said right now it seems to be working okay after i forced restarted it after it crashed and rn is working fine. if it stops crashing ill update in a few days and say if it seems to be fixed thanks

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        Re: windows randomly crashes and shows only vertical lines
        « Reply #4 on: November 06, 2016, 07:45:09 PM »
        update still do it
        more frequently now had it do it 3 times today alone. and it did this 2 times yesterday and once the day before that
        i dont think anythings overheating as everytime my components are within their max temps
        is it possible this is bad vram?

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        Re: windows randomly crashes and shows only vertical lines
        « Reply #5 on: November 06, 2016, 09:17:56 PM »
        Was this PC moved recently ? ?
        Where did you get the drivers from ? ?
        Have you checked your Temps ? ?
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          Re: windows randomly crashes and shows only vertical lines
          « Reply #6 on: November 08, 2016, 02:25:47 PM »

          no pc has not been moved
          got my drivers from amds website, and my tempes have been stable as per msi afterburner and hardware monitor and gpu-z

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          Re: windows randomly crashes and shows only vertical lines
          « Reply #7 on: November 09, 2016, 06:45:52 AM »
          Could be...how old is the card ? ?

          You can try removing the card...clean contacts with a rubber eraser and re-seat it...
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