- My Forums
- Tiger Rant
- LSU Recruiting
- SEC Rant
- Saints Talk
- Pelicans Talk
- More Sports Board
- Fantasy Sports
- Golf Board
- Soccer Board
- O-T Lounge
- Tech Board
- Home/Garden Board
- Outdoor Board
- Health/Fitness Board
- Movie/TV Board
- Book Board
- Music Board
- Political Talk
- Money Talk
- Fark Board
- Gaming Board
- Travel Board
- Food/Drink Board
- Ticket Exchange
- TD Help Board
Customize My Forums- View All Forums
- Show Left Links
- Topic Sort Options
- Trending Topics
- Recent Topics
- Active Topics
Started By
Message
PC slow and unresponsive after power outage
Posted on 9/17/20 at 11:51 pm
Posted on 9/17/20 at 11:51 pm
Hey, maybe this should go on the Tech board but my issues are related to chugging and FPS stutters.
Last night during raid the power went out. When it came back on we only had a few more pulls on the boss before raid time ended so I didn't notice any issues.
However, my bnet launcher was reset and to get back into WoW I had to relocate the folder on order to launch. What I didnt notice was that my FPS are now capped at 60. I checked wow settings and everything is fine.
However, when I go to my display settings 144hz is no longer an option. Only 59 or 60. I tried going into my nvidia control panel and it says its not available with my drivers.
I updated my nvidia drivers through GE force experience to the drivers that released today. Still the same error message.
In WoW if I go to Orgrimmar (in b4 stormwind is fine, roll alliance) my frames will not go above 25-40 and and things like NPCs and the portals do not load.
What settings could a power outage cause to change?
I checked the display settings and it still shows me connected via display port. Could my card be fried? If it was damaged, would I get any picture at all.
My system still shows 16 gb of ram, so I dont think that one of my ram sticks got fried.
Core temp still shows I'm running at about 50 degrees Celsius so that doesn't seem like an issues either.
I tried to do a system restore and I received an error message and my PC shut down.
Any ideas? TIA
Last night during raid the power went out. When it came back on we only had a few more pulls on the boss before raid time ended so I didn't notice any issues.
However, my bnet launcher was reset and to get back into WoW I had to relocate the folder on order to launch. What I didnt notice was that my FPS are now capped at 60. I checked wow settings and everything is fine.
However, when I go to my display settings 144hz is no longer an option. Only 59 or 60. I tried going into my nvidia control panel and it says its not available with my drivers.
I updated my nvidia drivers through GE force experience to the drivers that released today. Still the same error message.
In WoW if I go to Orgrimmar (in b4 stormwind is fine, roll alliance) my frames will not go above 25-40 and and things like NPCs and the portals do not load.
What settings could a power outage cause to change?
I checked the display settings and it still shows me connected via display port. Could my card be fried? If it was damaged, would I get any picture at all.
My system still shows 16 gb of ram, so I dont think that one of my ram sticks got fried.
Core temp still shows I'm running at about 50 degrees Celsius so that doesn't seem like an issues either.
I tried to do a system restore and I received an error message and my PC shut down.
Any ideas? TIA
This post was edited on 9/17/20 at 11:54 pm
4
Posted on 9/18/20 at 12:03 am to Barstools
You have your stuff hooked up to a backup UPS or right to a wall?
Seems like the monitor or GPU somehow got damaged, one way or the other. You try playing other games to see if your FPS is messed up?
Seems like the monitor or GPU somehow got damaged, one way or the other. You try playing other games to see if your FPS is messed up?
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:26 am to Barstools
You don’t happen to know what your system’s power draw was before this happened, do you?
I’m taking a bit of a shot in the dark, but this sounds like a power delivery problem. Your PSU might have been damaged.
I’m taking a bit of a shot in the dark, but this sounds like a power delivery problem. Your PSU might have been damaged.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 10:42 am to Barstools
Try swapping to another DP cable.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 3:36 pm to BoogerNuts
I will try these, thank you all.
Posted on 9/18/20 at 4:23 pm to Barstools
What's the make and model of your PSU?
Posted on 9/18/20 at 7:48 pm to Barstools
My PC acts up whenever I turn it off for extended periods of times. Most recently when we evacuated for the storm. For whatever reason my monitor has horrible flickering and gets green lines everywhere. All I do is turn it back off and on again and it’s fine. Then I also have to go to NVIDIA control panel and change it back to its native resolution. For whatever reason I have two 1920x1080 options. One doesn’t allow 144hz. This only happens when I turn it off for more than a day or so. It’s very odd. I’m not too sure outside of my two ideas and the others posted in this thread. Nothing’s more frustrating than hardware issues with a PC. Hope it’s something simple and/or cheap
Posted on 9/18/20 at 9:11 pm to SmoothOperator96
So I eneded up resetting windows with a clean install that did not help. However, after the fresh windows install, when i updated the drivers it fixed the problem.
Updating the drivers didn't help before the Windows restart, so I'm still not quite sure what caused it. Basically the outage corrupted my profile and after a fresh install of windows, when i updated the gfx drivers were good to go.
Thanks to everyone that responded!
Updating the drivers didn't help before the Windows restart, so I'm still not quite sure what caused it. Basically the outage corrupted my profile and after a fresh install of windows, when i updated the gfx drivers were good to go.
Thanks to everyone that responded!
Posted on 9/18/20 at 9:33 pm to Barstools
Not that it matters now, but did you try a wipe and reinstall of your graphic card driver's instead of just updating them before you did a clean install of windows?
Might have saved you some time if it were just the graphics card driver's that got corrupted.
Might have saved you some time if it were just the graphics card driver's that got corrupted.
This post was edited on 9/18/20 at 9:38 pm
Posted on 9/19/20 at 6:23 am to WhyMan
No, I didn't do a clean driver install. That very well could have worked. I just tried to update what I had. I was so upset I just said frick it, I'm doing a clean windows reset. I had my documents backed up on one cloud so I wasn't too concerned with losing anything important. Just sucks haven't to re download all my games.
I had over 1TB in games, many i haven't played in a while so I saw it as an opportunity to make some space as well.
I had over 1TB in games, many i haven't played in a while so I saw it as an opportunity to make some space as well.
Posted on 9/19/20 at 8:11 am to Barstools
Well anyway, glad you got it all working now.
Page 1 of 1
Back to top
Follow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News