I still haven’t been able to figure out what went wrong with the computer before but it hasn’t happened again, and I’m hoping it stays like that. My driver was out of date so I updated it but that’s about all I’ve done.
I did notice some funkiness in HWMonitor though. My copy utilisation was being… Weird. It was normal, then I checked 20 minutes later, and HWM reported it peaked at 8000%. I thought that was weird but just chalked it up to an error. Then half an hour later it was saying it had peaked at 54,645%. Now it’s saying it peaked at “18112064992…%” and my 3D utilisation apparently peaked at 9027.2%. I’ve got no clue what’s causing that, but there’s that ig.
I’ve also kept an eye on the other values and nothing seems too out of place, although apparently it’s dedicated RAM has ranged from 400Mhz to 6001Mhz. The temperatures have not gone above 48c.
So key takeaway: idk what’s going on, I’m just hoping it doesn’t happen again
Here’s the values HWM is reporting if anybody is wondering:
Nope not quite. My wifi card is a cheap one from AliExpress and arrived ever so slightly slanted, so I can’t screw it into the case. I previously had it double side taped to the case but I bumped my PC a few days ago and it dislodged from the pcie slot and bumped into my GPU fans. And then last night my PC just randomly shut down with an error code in the event logs related to the GPU
I don’t think any of the wifi card touched any of the GPU, it only bumped the fans as fair as I’m aware, which is why I assumed it had overheated
I only checked the error logs after the shutdown but with the whacky util numbers I might have another look and see if anything jumps out at me
I still haven’t been able to figure out what went wrong with the computer before but it hasn’t happened again, and I’m hoping it stays like that. My driver was out of date so I updated it but that’s about all I’ve done.
I did notice some funkiness in HWMonitor though. My copy utilisation was being… Weird. It was normal, then I checked 20 minutes later, and HWM reported it peaked at 8000%. I thought that was weird but just chalked it up to an error. Then half an hour later it was saying it had peaked at 54,645%. Now it’s saying it peaked at “18112064992…%” and my 3D utilisation apparently peaked at 9027.2%. I’ve got no clue what’s causing that, but there’s that ig.
I’ve also kept an eye on the other values and nothing seems too out of place, although apparently it’s dedicated RAM has ranged from 400Mhz to 6001Mhz. The temperatures have not gone above 48c.
So key takeaway: idk what’s going on, I’m just hoping it doesn’t happen again
Here’s the values HWM is reporting if anybody is wondering:
So hang on: this all happened because your CPU fan went crazy?
Those numbers are really, really odd.
Have you checked windows error log?
Nope not quite. My wifi card is a cheap one from AliExpress and arrived ever so slightly slanted, so I can’t screw it into the case. I previously had it double side taped to the case but I bumped my PC a few days ago and it dislodged from the pcie slot and bumped into my GPU fans. And then last night my PC just randomly shut down with an error code in the event logs related to the GPU
I don’t think any of the wifi card touched any of the GPU, it only bumped the fans as fair as I’m aware, which is why I assumed it had overheated
I only checked the error logs after the shutdown but with the whacky util numbers I might have another look and see if anything jumps out at me
Hmmm. Is the wifi card still plugged in?
It’s weird you’re getting all that from a slight fan touch.
Maybe the wifi card itself is the culprit?
Otherwise it could be the motherboard. Hopefully not.