I am currently using a Radeon HD 5770, purchased around 3 years ago.
Two months back I began playing Borderlands 2 and began experiencing a strange crashing error, in which the speakers would make some awful noises and my game, Firefox, and Skype would all crash and crash instantly whenever I tried to open them. If I opened another game, it would have weird graphical tears over even the splash screens, and then crash again with the same error.
When opening a video, the video refuses to play properly except for the sound- The video itself would be erratic and filled with odd colours. Everything fixes after I reboot it once, unless:
Some times when I reboot my computer after having these errors, the computer freezes at the Windows logo, or just after the screen goes black during the Windows logo. If I restart enough this problem goes away.
When I replaced the graphics card with a different one to test it out, I didn't get the game crashing issues anymore, but I still got the issue where the computer hangs up and freezes on boot sometimes.
Please help me, I'm almost positive I have a hardware issue but I have no clue which part is giving out.
System:
Mobo - MSI 770-G45
CPU - AMD phenom ii x4 945
RAM - 6 GB Munchkin DDR3-1066
GPU - XFX Radeon HD 5770
PSU - Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus 550
The graphics card I swapped to test it with was a Geforce 8600GT, pretty low end these days but I tried to make it sweat by playing some heavy stuff with videos running on another screen. This would usually cause the crashing to happen within 30 minutes of playing, but the crash never occured.
Two months back I began playing Borderlands 2 and began experiencing a strange crashing error, in which the speakers would make some awful noises and my game, Firefox, and Skype would all crash and crash instantly whenever I tried to open them. If I opened another game, it would have weird graphical tears over even the splash screens, and then crash again with the same error.
When opening a video, the video refuses to play properly except for the sound- The video itself would be erratic and filled with odd colours. Everything fixes after I reboot it once, unless:
Some times when I reboot my computer after having these errors, the computer freezes at the Windows logo, or just after the screen goes black during the Windows logo. If I restart enough this problem goes away.
When I replaced the graphics card with a different one to test it out, I didn't get the game crashing issues anymore, but I still got the issue where the computer hangs up and freezes on boot sometimes.
Please help me, I'm almost positive I have a hardware issue but I have no clue which part is giving out.
System:
Mobo - MSI 770-G45
CPU - AMD phenom ii x4 945
RAM - 6 GB Munchkin DDR3-1066
GPU - XFX Radeon HD 5770
PSU - Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus 550
The graphics card I swapped to test it with was a Geforce 8600GT, pretty low end these days but I tried to make it sweat by playing some heavy stuff with videos running on another screen. This would usually cause the crashing to happen within 30 minutes of playing, but the crash never occured.
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