Broken GPU or HDD?

rally187

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Mar 19, 2012
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Recently i have upgraded my 660ti to a 780ti. For the past 2-3 weeks everything has been running awesome. Ive played multiply hours of Bioshock Infinite and crysis 2 with settings maxed and was very pleased with the results. One day i turned my computer on and noticed that it took for ever to go from the windows screen to the log in screen i didnt think much of it but then it happend a couple more times still thought little of it. Then titanfall came out. I have been playing it for a couple hours a day since it came out and on the first day the game froze and blue screened me. I thought it was odd since its never happend before but waited a little bit and turned it back on. everything was fine played some more titanfall. Thought it was just a bug in the game or something. Well then it happend again and now im setting here looking at a screen that says "disc error has occurred" and cannot do anything from there. I would like to test by removing the graphincs card and trying but i have no video out from my mobo. but this sounds like (from the message) a HDD issue. The fact that the GPU is so new, and so expensive, has me worried that its broke. what should i do?

SPECS:
EVGA GTX 780Ti superclocked
XFX TS Series 550W
i5-3570k (OC to stable 4.5)
ASROCK P67 EXTREME4 GEN3 LGA 1155
AMD performance edition 8gb ddr3
asus blue ray drive
WD AV-GP 320gb

 
How old is the drive? If it has some age on it, it could possibly being dying on you. HDD's don't always quit all at once. Sometimes it's a process. Above all, make sure that you've got a backup of all of your important data. You may be getting ready to see a dead HDD.