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Question

Need help diagnosing my computer

by Jun 21, 2018 2:53PM PDT

I’ve had my computer for about a year now (built myself) and the first 6 months it worked just fine, then i started to get a “Nvidia Kernel Mode has stopped working and repaired itself” upon startup, and then whenever i launched a game (cs:go, Dota 2, etc). It just crashed. This was among other weird things such as settings not being saved when i restart the computer, or the GPU fan not spinning. Thinking it was a hardware problem i tested the GPU in another computer and it worked perfectly fine, then about a week ago, thinking it was an OS problem, I converted from Windows 8.1 to Linux Mint. It worked fine up until today. I no longer get a startup error, but the glitch is very similar to the one on windows, where whenever I launch game it will run for a few moments, then the screen will go blank and freeze, then the computer will reboot, and the cycle continues. Any help is greatly appreciated

Specs:
GTX 950 2gb
AMD 8320E Black edition
1Tb Seagate WD Blue Hard Drive
GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3 Mobo
8gb DDR3 Ram

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Those parts look very old.
by Forum moderator Jun 21, 2018 2:58PM PDT

"Nvidia Kernel Mode has stopped working and repaired itself" does have a lot of priors but to me the parts look old. A stopped fan or overheated part (many do not have temp sensors) does result in that error.

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Hardware problem?
by Ckhempton21 Jun 21, 2018 3:09PM PDT

I thought it was hardware too, but randomly it would go between working and not working (more often not) when it was on windows, and it ran fine on Linux. Would it do that if it was solely hardware based? If so, would this be primarily motherboard based? Since my CPU and GPU, while old, are newer than the motherboard and work for what i do with them

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That's a sign of troubled hardware.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 21, 2018 3:13PM PDT

You can however research that error message for prior ideas which I don't have to duplicate here as well as pop the lid and point a fan at it to see if that helps.

As to the comment about work for what I do, that can't be true or else you wouldn't be asking.

That is, there are folk that think hardware issues are binary. That is, if it's hardware it's dead. Nothing can be further from reality.

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sounds like overheating part, such as CPU
by Jun 21, 2018 4:37PM PDT

Check to be sure the fan is working (if exist) on your GPU

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