really strange problems with my pc

jeffacake999

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IOk so I will try to explain this as best I can. For a while now. My pc would shut down randomly without warning. The power would just cut out. I lived with this bevauas I could not solve it. Now the othwe day the pc froze. I got horizontal crazy lines everywhere and it crashed. I havent been able to boot up since. I instantly put this down to the gpu but I have been trouble shooting and discovered some odd things. If I run windows memory diahnkstic it says I have hardware problems with memory. I have tried booting with each ram module individually and no difference. Does the widows diagnostic test video card ram. And is this what it has found problems with? Also. how I haveit set up cable wise originally it loads but then I get artifacts everywhere and have tk restart. I switched the 8 and 6 pin power connectors for the gpu. I moved them at the psu end to the 8 abd 6 pin modular bits beneath the rail they were on. And if I do this. The system tries to power up but then powers off straight after and cycles through this. What is myproblem? Will a new graphics cars fix this?
 

gburke

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It could be a motherboard or power issue. Possibly not enough power to motherboard on load. Or a bad PSU or a bad motherboard. Are any of the components new?
 

jeffacake999

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No nothing is new. I was kind of hopping it was a gpu issue.. Motherboard is bad bad news. Any way I can narrow this down? No way it's going to be the graphics card? When I do get on. In. Device manager it. Says
For the graphics card that it has stopped working code 43
 

jeffacake999

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Yeah I always unplug. I already have new gpu on the way. Cant afford a psu. What would the
Windows memory diagnostic errors mean? Can a psu cause really
Bad artifacts all over the screen then?
 

jeffacake999

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Yeah I always unplug. I already have new gpu on the way. Cant afford a psu. What would the
Windows memory diagnostic errors mean? Can a psu cause really
Bad artifacts all over the screen then?
 

gburke

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A bad psu can have all kinds of affects on the system, memory, gpu, harddrive, etc...

but also so can a bad motherboard. Check the motherboard for blown capacitors. I'm mainly guessing power due to random shutdowns. If a GPU or memory was the only bad component, the computer probably would not shut down. It may freeze but not shut down.