I urgently need your help with computers. My name is Jonas and I'm 16 years old. For years I've played video games like CS: GO or Minecraft on a very old laptop. I got 30 FPS in CS: GO and 100 FPS in Minecraft. Anyway, I finally wanted a real PC and saved a lot of money to get the necessary money. I wanted to assemble it myself because friends advised me to do so because I could save a lot of money (list of parts below). When the parts were there I was very afraid to assemble it. However, I overcome myself and built it up with the help of my father. When it was finished I downloaded the graphics card driver. As a result, the PC crashed. I thought it was normal and thought nothing of it. I downloaded games like CS: GO, Rainbow Six Siege and Minecraft. In the beginning everything was ok and I was able to play CS: GO and R6 with unimaginable FPS, however I had a flickering light in Minecraft and when I tried to watch videos the computer crashed. The PC crashes 2 times a day due to an error called: VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE / atikmpag.sys. CS: GO had more and more still images. I panicked because I didn't know if it was the hardware or the software. Have I damaged the fine electronics? Was something wrong with the software? After my father's suggestion to download an older driver (because he thought that the PC could not cope with the driver), I did so. I rebuilt the PC and downloaded an older and recommended driver version. At the beginning after the download, it crashed again, but it has not yet crashed. CS: GO runs smoothly (rarely jerky), Rainbow Six Siege (flickering in the loading screen / ingame but not) also. However, I still have a flickering light in Minecraft. In general, the whole situation with the PC and the question of whether I have installed something wrong triggers a queasy and depressing feeling in me. Based on their skills, I would like to know what I can do about it and whether it may be that the hardware is damaged (everything is recognized in BIOS) and what can still be fixed.
Thank you for your attention and I thank you for your answers. I would be very grateful if you would take my worries away.
LG Jonas
List of parts: https://www.mindfactory.de/...f8c35c5e42
Do you mean a distorted picture with flickering?
What happens every now and then?
Then activate V-Sync (as long as your monitor supports it!)
Your confi lacks the MB, cooling and the power supply at least. But I don't think these are the problems here. I also don't think that's a software bug. The drivers for your graphics card should not be responsible for 99% that you can't play current games. You also said that your PC crashes so often (?). Ultimately, I tap your graphics card, which may be. Has damage, that is: hardware failure. Please try another graphics card and just look for Trial and Error.
So don't sound dramatic now. I can't say whether there's a fault in the hardware or software. What does this "flickering" look like?
Check the hardware first (it's easier to test)
1. Check all cable connections, RAM slots and connections
2. Have you provided enough cooling? Check the temperature of CPU and gpu…
3. Are all components correctly recognized in the BIOS?
4. Sufficiently large power supply installed with enough power + reserve?
5. Which mainboard? Correct driver installed?
I didn't install a mainboard driver because I thought it would download automatically. Should I still do this?
Thank you, I'll give it another try.
Thank you, thank you and thank you again. It worked.
I don't know what MB you have. With my MSI B450, which I also bought from mindfactory 2 months ago, the driver for the 3rd generation of the ryzen (also got the 5 3600) processors was already preinstalled… But that is not a matter of course… Just check with the manufacturer on the website the correct BIOS version download.
If nothing helps, replace the hardware components individually and see if the error is resolved…
No problem!
My MB is the following:
