Me vs my PC! an epic fight for insanity. (Display driver does not respond)

[Pemalite]

Crystalchild said:

Pemalite said:

Crystalchild said:

i didnt have the chance to grab another GPU today.. but what i did though is i disabled pci express link state power management (which i stmbled upon on accident), and then played CiV5 for 5 hours straight without fucking noticing... i have a gigantic headache, but i keep the game running with the monitor off, checking it from time to time. gonna keep u guys updated if anything happens. wish me the best of luck xD

(funfact: everyone in civ 5 declared war to me. :< .,. wiping out 2 nations out of couriosity didnt seem to be a good idea. but damn it is fun)

I wish you the best of luck!
Failing that, jump into event viewer and show me some error logs.

while i feel naughty having taken over the whole world with dem germanz, i've just played another 3 hours (damn that game!) without any problem whatsoever. what happened in addition though is windows installed 133 updates since yesterday. (yeah, seriously.) but whatever has caused my system to run can stay without paying rent for the rest of the system's lifespan. however if anything happens i'll post all the logs i can find.

thanks so much for all the support. :3

(still curious though, how can tiny changes have such an impact? and why is it working for others with similar hardware without changes? PC WHY U SO COMPLICATED)

The PC isn't overly complicated, well not to me anyway.

As for tiny changes, I would assume you had a hardware conflict, which Windows Update may have rectified. (It updates drivers and OS doohickies to fix all the things.)
I have also seen PC's where Windows Update has "updated" something like USB drivers to a version that was relatively old and if you plug in a flash drive the system would blue screen.

Generally though, I have minimal issues with my PC, heck my motherboard has a 10 year warranty, PSU has a 7 year warranty and I even have overclocking insurance on my processor, so it's built to last, although you pay out the nose for such a premium, current uptime according to the UEFI Bios is just over 3 months without a reboot. :)