Black screen crash (caused by gpu?)

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Mister Fox

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Lately, my computer has been crashing to a black screen, and whatever audio was playing at the time becomes a repeating glitchy beeping noise. This continues until I do a hard reset. I am suspecting the graphics card is the cause of this.

What I've done:

Tried several drivers (beta and certified)
Ran Memtest86+ (no errors found, wanted to rule out bad RAM)
Ran Video Ram Stress Test (came back clean, more ruling out)


My setup:
Nvidia GeForce GT 430
AMD Phenom II X6 1045T
Western Blue 500GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 Motherboard
16GB DDR3 RAM
380w Earthwatts Power Supply

I'm not sure what's going wrong. I think it may have something to do with the power supply, but I'm not sure.

Any ideas?


 
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The Earthwatts series was actually known for having bad caps. Judging by the age of your other components, your computer would go into the bad caps category. Normally you can smell almost like a sulfur smell a lot of the time if the power supply does go bad from the caps exploding. If you are under warranty call antec and have a chat with them. But if it is no longer under warranty take the cover off the power supply without touching anything inside and look at your caps and see if the are bulged or leaking. At the same time look around your system for dust. You could also look at your temps with http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/
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The Earthwatts series was actually known for having bad caps. Judging by the age of your other components, your computer would go into the bad caps category. Normally you can smell almost like a sulfur smell a lot of the time if the power supply does go bad from the caps exploding. If you are under warranty call antec and have a chat with them. But if it is no longer under warranty take the cover off the power supply without touching anything inside and look at your caps and see if the are bulged or leaking. At the same time look around your system for dust. You could also look at your temps with http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/
 
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