Windows 10: defective gpu or faulty psu?

I built a gaming pc last month and everything works except for playing games, everytime I try to play a game I get a red screen of death within the first 10-15 minutes.

I have gotton support from the developers of the games and I have troubleshooted just about everything you could think of. Even when I run furmark or unigine heaven benchmark my pc gets a red screen crash within the first 15 minutes, it isn't an over heating problem becasue I the gpu temps don't go past 80 celcius and the cpu don't go past 40 celcius.

Every crash I get the dump files point to ntoskrnl.exe driver (has to do with memory) has casued the crash. When my pc crashes all of my components and fans are still running and the gpu is running just as it did before the crash, that's why I don't think it is a psu problem not supplying enough power but a gpu problem for some reason once it is required to work for a while it craps out.

Here is everything I have tried and any advice of what I should rma first, the gpu or psu, I have not updated the bios on my motherboard, should I try this? Should I contact asrock first so they don't void my warranty?
-ran memtest+ for 10 passes 0 error (ram is fine)
-ran sfc scanner
-scanned my hard drive (no problems found)
-unninstalled antivirus
-tried to play a game in clean boot environment (still got the crash)
-did a clean install of amd drivers multiple times
-clean install of windows 10 twice
-troubleshooted with steam and developers of the games and nothing worked.
-I tried more things but if you bring them up I will remember of I tried it
-I have attempted many more things, I can't list everythig here.

here are my parts
Bk - Saved Part Lists - PCPartPicker

any advice would be greatly appreciated

If you want dump I can provide them but everyone that has looked at them can't find anything specific, I have tried looking at the event viewer but I don't understand most of the language the computer uses.

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BSOD when Unplugged

This may be a faulty driver for your gpu or the whole laptop has a defective video card, do you see any artifacts if not, try to refresh your computer*

This will delete all your settings but your files are going to be there. DO NOT SELECT RESET TO FACTORY SETTINGS!

You are going to lose all your files If you don't have a backup

 

How to disable a faulty GPU before or during Windows 10 installation

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your quick reply!

How exactly should I do this? There are only one VGA and one HDMI port on my notebook with no specification to which graphic card they are related to.

Regarding error messages, sometimes the system just halts and I receive nothing, sometimes Windows 10 goes to a BSOD. The only error message I remember from the BSOD was a "video TDR failure".

 

I looked up ntoskrnl.exe and hit on the Tom's Hardware site. Go here Ntoskrnl Windows 10 and see if anything helps you there.

This tells me it could even be your motherboard. Although, generally, high video usage generally will get you errors, so it could be the video card. Or even faulty RAM. I think the PSU would be the least suspect of all, then the motherboard, you say RAM is fine, so for me, I'd have the video card checked.

Are you playing only one game or several? If only one, that could be suspect also.

 

I don't know.

XFX recommends a 750W PSU as a minimum. I'd expect a good 650W unit like you Seasonic to be adequate. The card should max out at less than 300W (75W from the slot, 75W from the 6 pin, and 150W from the 8 pin).

If you could borrow or buy another graphics card, that might simplify your testing.

 

I tried to hook up my pc to a ups to see how much power it draws before it crashes and the most wattage it was using was about 300 Watts, those recommendations are extremely over exaggerated.

 

Ahhh, since I'm not a gamer . . . you're more experienced in that area; however, if it were me, I'd have been caught putting in the 750W power supply if it were called for. That's just me, though, and I'm still inclined toward the video card maybe being a bad one, not that it's inadequate.

 

had the same problems with HD 6970 - it just went relaxing - it started after 2-3hours of gaming and crash, then the gaming went smaller amount of time until i couldnt launch a single game cause it crashed immediately

 

When you got a new card it stopped happening?

 

I will take a look at that link but the reason I think it's the video card is because when the PC crashes it's displaying a completely red screen with no text which leads me to believe the gpu is failing. If none of those solutions in the link work I will probably rma my GPU, then my motherboard. I ran the newest version of memtest86+ and got 10 passes with zero errors, the RAM or ram slots on the motherboard shouldn't be a problem. This red screen crash is happening with every game, the more demanding the game the quicker it crashes.

 

are you using both the 4 and three pin power connectors? Red screen is usually down to faulty gpu ram if your cards getting enough power , nothing is overclocked and its seated correctly and you have up to date drivers correctly installed you may have to rma it , do you have a friend with another system you can try it in?

 

I have both the 6 pin and 8 pin connected to the gpu, I ever tried another 6 and 8 pin connector, nothing is over clocked and I have done a clean install of several drivers, the dump files say memory management is the issue so I can only assume vram since my RAM is good. No I don't know anyone with a gaming pc

 

You could still check it if you have a friend who will let you plug your card into his PC. *Smile Just put a high graphics game on and try to run it.

You may want to leave the door open just in case he tries to murder you when he sees that red screen. *Eek

 

red screen is deffo gpu related system ram and cpu will blue screen , so assuming all else is ok your gpu is dead :/

 

If a Radeon gives a red screen, does an nVidia card give a green one? *Smile