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August 29, 2014 9:16:35 AM

Alright well I built my very first PC about 2 months ago, and nothing severely bad looking has happened, but I've just been having... things, that make constantly worry, to the point I don't even want to use my PC because I'm afraid it's going to blow up itself and £800 worth of parts. There are things that I've worried about such as my graphics card, and processor, and motherboard, but I see no reason why these things should be bad. Playing games has less performance that it should be I'm sure, but I've had 2 graphics cards act the same. I know processors rarely go bad and motherboard usually show the obvious if they're not working. I really just think it's between one or two things that's making my whole system seem weird. Either the hard drive, or a bad Windows 7 install. Every time I launch Windows 7, sure it seems like it could take a reasonable amount of time to load, if it was a £200 laptop, and not a £800 super fast machine. But it is. The first time it boots up, it seems fine, and it's not really the time that worries me. First thing, shows motherboard brand and whatnot, then the "Loading Windows" thing with the floating colours that form into a Windows logo, BUT, when it gets onto the log on screen, the screen usually goes black for a few seconds but shows my mouse, then the rest of the screen comes up, but makes no "welcome" noise, but fair enough, then I get onto the desktop, after a few extra seconds than what it should be to get there, I'm usually greeted with a black screen and the mouse, then things gradually load up, task bar, wallpaper, then icons. It does however make the desktop arrival noise. After that things seem fine. Except my hard drive constantly seems to be struggling or at hard work when it's just opening simple things, and otherwise doing barely nothing, it still constantly clicks. Lately as I was installing a program, Photoshop, to be exact, it make the restart/shutdown noise, the taskbar disappeared, but came back, and then I just restarted it anyway because I was worried. Also when launching games lately, I get a quite big FPS drop at the start of the game for a few seconds, and after about 30 seconds of playing the game runs as it should, which is good since it's a GTX 770 2GB card. Also what really worried me though was the textures in one of my games suddenly went pixelated. Now I heard this could be to do with Windows, I don't know how, but, it's possible? Or maybe my motherboard is causing me all of this because everything is connected to it? You know what, I'm done. I've been worrying for so long and this is my first build and I have really no clue why things seem to be going dodgy one way or another. I don't know what to do and since there is so much money in this, it's causing me major stress. Please help. I'll answer any questions if it helps.

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August 29, 2014 9:23:22 AM

xMRxVENGEANCEx said:
Alright well I built my very first PC about 2 months ago, and nothing severely bad looking has happened, but I've just been having... things, that make constantly worry, to the point I don't even want to use my PC because I'm afraid it's going to blow up itself and £800 worth of parts. There are things that I've worried about such as my graphics card, and processor, and motherboard, but I see no reason why these things should be bad. Playing games has less performance that it should be I'm sure, but I've had 2 graphics cards act the same. I know processors rarely go bad and motherboard usually show the obvious if they're not working. I really just think it's between one or two things that's making my whole system seem weird. Either the hard drive, or a bad Windows 7 install. Every time I launch Windows 7, sure it seems like it could take a reasonable amount of time to load, if it was a £200 laptop, and not a £800 super fast machine. But it is. The first time it boots up, it seems fine, and it's not really the time that worries me. First thing, shows motherboard brand and whatnot, then the "Loading Windows" thing with the floating colours that form into a Windows logo, BUT, when it gets onto the log on screen, the screen usually goes black for a few seconds but shows my mouse, then the rest of the screen comes up, but makes no "welcome" noise, but fair enough, then I get onto the desktop, after a few extra seconds than what it should be to get there, I'm usually greeted with a black screen and the mouse, then things gradually load up, task bar, wallpaper, then icons. It does however make the desktop arrival noise. After that things seem fine. Except my hard drive constantly seems to be struggling or at hard work when it's just opening simple things, and otherwise doing barely nothing, it still constantly clicks. Lately as I was installing a program, Photoshop, to be exact, it make the restart/shutdown noise, the taskbar disappeared, but came back, and then I just restarted it anyway because I was worried. Also when launching games lately, I get a quite big FPS drop at the start of the game for a few seconds, and after about 30 seconds of playing the game runs as it should, which is good since it's a GTX 770 2GB card. Also what really worried me though was the textures in one of my games suddenly went pixelated. Now I heard this could be to do with Windows, I don't know how, but, it's possible? Or maybe my motherboard is causing me all of this because everything is connected to it? You know what, I'm done. I've been worrying for so long and this is my first build and I have really no clue why things seem to be going dodgy one way or another. I don't know what to do and since there is so much money in this, it's causing me major stress. Please help. I'll answer any questions if it helps.


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August 29, 2014 9:40:37 AM

if your pc is an intel cpu and mb with the onboard gpu. make sure in the bios the primay display is set to peg/pci first and muilt monitor is off to turn off the onboard ipgpu and free up some ram. also make sure your video cable on the gpu and not the onboard video by the nvidia gpu. in the bios check that your mb has the newest bios file to rule out bios bug. also make sure if your running asus mb the bios set to standard not performance and with all mb ram set to xmp profile and the ram speed is set right. use msconfig turn off things in start up you dont need. if your pc is 4g of ram your gaming pc is running out of free ram and needs more ram. in windows reload the windows chipset drivers for the mb to make sure your not missing any drivers.
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