First PC build of 2 weeks encountered black screen while gaming.

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Hello everyone,

I recently build my first pc around 2 weeks ago with the below specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core

CPU Cooler: Corsair iCUE H100i ELITE CAPELLIX XT 65.57 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory

Storage: Western Digital Black SN770 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive

Video Card: Gigabyte WINDFORCE V2 GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 16 GB Video Card

Case: Corsair 5000D CORE AIRFLOW ATX Mid Tower
Power Supply: Corsair RM850x (2021) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

Upon building and after getting my first POST I ran some stress tests (Cinebench R24 and Aida CPU stress test) with no issue.

The pc was running fine up until yesterday, the only change I made during that time was enabling Secure Boot through my motherboard bios.

While I was gaming for less than an hr the PC suddenly stop displaying, with all RGB displaying except the ram one and I could not power off the pc through the power button.

I unplugged it and restarted though the motherboard did not display any debug led and now ram had RGB on. Sadly still the power button could not close it still.

This time after unplugging I check all my cables,RAM and my CPU for any issue and found nothing. I then cleared the CMOS as a last resort.

The after plugging everything in I got straight back to windows with no problem. I had installed latest windows updates and the latest nvidia driver for the GPU. Also on the note of gaming I ran some game benchmarks and play some games for around 3hrs+ nothing abnormal happened then (this is before the incident).

I am a bit worried as this my first build, so I would like any recommendations if I need to check something specific again to test that everything is ok.

Thank you!

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DDR5-6000

1.download latest bios
2.check the voltages on ram related settings, 7800x3d(all AM5 sockets, but x3d is more sensible) had problems with mobo/ram manufacturers setting stuff too high when loading XMP profiles.
3.stress test the ram, y-cruncher and memtest86 (the usb one)

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Hi @Av78, Have you tried disabling Secure Boot to see if the issue goes away? Sometimes, enabling Secure Boot can cause problems with specific drivers or hardware configurations. Since you didn’t mention what operating software you are using, I assume you are using Windows 10.

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I have run some benchmarks for both ram and gpu.

As suggested I run y-cruncher which was completed with no issue in a relatively short time. I also run the Aida 64 extreme sha3 test which was completed with no issues.

For the gpu I run the furmark test which run with no issues and temps maxing at 70c.

I believe as of now it is fine, I gamed a bit today with decent temps and no issue. Hopefully stays this way.

Thanks for you feedback!

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Actually I forgot to mention that, but the only change I made was enable secure boot via bios the day before the issue. Though it worked fine even in gaming till the issue appeared. I am on windows 11.

Thanks!

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Power can do weird things to PCs. Unplugging it from the back and pressing the power button a few times to clear it and plugging back in usually fix most power issues.

The only time I got a black screen was either from a bad cable,GPU not seated properly, bad install of video drivers or with my Samsung tv with a seperate connection box.

Don’t think there is much to worry about at the moment

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I am glad everything seems to be fine now. The reason I thought the issue you had might be caused by selecting Secure Boot was that Windows 10 apparently used to require a complete reinstall if it was installed without turning on Secure Boot in the BIOS, or you would have weird issues. Apparently, that isn’t the case.

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It could even be a buggy storage drive.

Years ago I had an SSD that would bug out the memory controller after a power outage (randomly, not always) and cause the entire system to hang after a few minutes sitting on the windows 10 desktop.

I had to enable hot swapping for the sata drive on UEFI, boot in to safe mode on a usb and flash the updated firmware within a minute of plugging in the SSD or the system would freeze.

The firmware update fixed it.

It’s crazy because it affected the entire PC, even linux on a separate drive would freeze or outright fail to boot with the buggy drive plugged in

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