- Aug 7, 2013
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Hello,
Recently my PC was almost completely fried somehow, the PSU died and took the mobo, GPU, and all of my HDDs. I purchased a Raidmax 630w PSU to replace the dead Corsair 500w. I also bought a new mobo (M4A87TD/USB3) that was a slightly different model of my previous mobo, which was an M4A87TD EVO. I received a spare hard drive (80gb HDD) and GPU (GeForce 6200) from a friend. I transferred the RAM and CPU to the new mobo and got everything installed in the case and win7 on the spare HDD. The temporary setup functioned, thankfully. I obviously don't planning on keeping the relic that is the 6200 or the 80gb HDD, I'll purchase a new GPU and an SSD when I get the money for them. Anyways, when using this temporary setup, you'll immediately notice that there are issues, visual glitches all the time (especially in my browser, Crome) and I can't even play simple games, such as BF2142, which came out around the same time as the 6200, or even BF1942 which came out 4 years earlier. Both games, while playing, run at around 10-15FPS and have missing textures everywhere; the guns are translucent and the sky is black. While trying to use Chrome it constantly locks up and the window itself glitches up, and no matter how long I wait nothing happens, causing me to have to force the program to close with task manager. I never had these issues on my old build with the same RAM, CPU, case, etc. I believe they are, but I want to make sure that these issues are indeed the fault of the temporary GPU or HDD. Could it be the mobo or the PSU, though? Or one of my old parts? Is there a way I can find out? Nonetheless, I'll probably find out after I buy my new GPU/SSD, but I want to make sure ahead of time.
Many thanks!
Recently my PC was almost completely fried somehow, the PSU died and took the mobo, GPU, and all of my HDDs. I purchased a Raidmax 630w PSU to replace the dead Corsair 500w. I also bought a new mobo (M4A87TD/USB3) that was a slightly different model of my previous mobo, which was an M4A87TD EVO. I received a spare hard drive (80gb HDD) and GPU (GeForce 6200) from a friend. I transferred the RAM and CPU to the new mobo and got everything installed in the case and win7 on the spare HDD. The temporary setup functioned, thankfully. I obviously don't planning on keeping the relic that is the 6200 or the 80gb HDD, I'll purchase a new GPU and an SSD when I get the money for them. Anyways, when using this temporary setup, you'll immediately notice that there are issues, visual glitches all the time (especially in my browser, Crome) and I can't even play simple games, such as BF2142, which came out around the same time as the 6200, or even BF1942 which came out 4 years earlier. Both games, while playing, run at around 10-15FPS and have missing textures everywhere; the guns are translucent and the sky is black. While trying to use Chrome it constantly locks up and the window itself glitches up, and no matter how long I wait nothing happens, causing me to have to force the program to close with task manager. I never had these issues on my old build with the same RAM, CPU, case, etc. I believe they are, but I want to make sure that these issues are indeed the fault of the temporary GPU or HDD. Could it be the mobo or the PSU, though? Or one of my old parts? Is there a way I can find out? Nonetheless, I'll probably find out after I buy my new GPU/SSD, but I want to make sure ahead of time.
Many thanks!
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