My Video Card Might be causing my PC to Freeze

Chad2013

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I have a ASUS Rampage IV Gene with a i7 Intel, x4 4GB Sticks RAM, x2 SATA Drives, GeForce GTX 260 with a 750w PS.

I was playing a game and the PC just froze I had turned the PC off (by using the switch on the PS) and restarted and I made it into Windows then froze again. did the same thing this time it froze during the POST, The Beep codes was 1 long 3 short which was a RAM issue. I tested the RAM with a program. Froze during that. Then I had decided to put my old MB, CPU, RAM, and PS back into my case with the same Vid Card. I still have the same issues. If its the Vid Card causing the issues it will be a first for me.

PS I don't use any optical drives

Any idea's anyone?
I don't want to have to go and buy RAM or anything else if it's the Vid card causing the problems

Thx
 

dalethepcman

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Were you heavily overclocking your 260, or did you use custom firmware on it? This sounds way more like a power supply/MB issue than anything with a video card.

I would start off by breadboarding both systems: remove from case, connect only those devices required to post / log into windows (MB, PWS, CPU, Fan, GPU, HDD, 1 stick of Ram in slot 1) and testing.

If you get either of these to work, then start adding devices one by one still setup outside the case until you find a failed device or all devices are added.

You didn't list that you swapped HDD's when you pulled out parts, it's highly improbable that the system would boot to login screen and run without crashing using the same HDD/OS on both platforms unless the motherboards were the same make/model.
 

Chad2013

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No I actually don't overclock (I don't like decreasing the life of my hardware :p) and no Custom firmware. I put the GPU in my old MB and old PWS the same issue was happening. The Old MB and PWS is capable of handling the video card. Also the OS (win 7) did go to the boot up repair menu because of the changed parts and about 1/2 way thru that it crashed again.
 

dalethepcman

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You seem to have another computer to use which is good. Take the HDD from your gaming rig and either backup everything important and wipe the drive, or use a third party partition tool like Euasus partition manager to slice off some free space from the end of your drive. (at least 40GB)

Boot from your windows disc and see if you can install a clean copy of windows onto this free space. If you can install windows then your hardware is probably fine.