Hello everyone.
So I was playing Diablo 3 for the second time in 1080p after buying a new monitor (LG 23MP23HQ-P, 1 week). My previous one was a LG Flatron 2042S.
Suddenly, the screen froze, artifacts appeared everywhere and my system rebooted.
I was having small artifacts in bios (random squares, red vertical lines etc, can't take a screenshot now) and when windows loaded, it wouldn't let me change the resolution from 800x600.
Tried reinstalling the drivers, tried a vga cable instead of the hdmi I had but nothing changed. Sometimes it would let me change to 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 but I still had artifacts.
After that, I wanted to try uninstalling the drivers with DDU but after loading the files for the safe mode the screen would go black.
Seeing I can't do anything, I formatted my disk but I was having the same symptoms. Without the GPU drivers, my resolution can't get more than 800x600.
Also, before and after formatting, SpeedFan wouldn't show the GPU temperature, although the fan was spinning as always. In my device manager I can't find it either. My temperatures were always good, instead of my GPU that was at 75-80 top under stress which I think is normal. I never overclocked anything.
I'm pretty sure that my GPU is dead. I cleaned my whole hardware like 2 weeks ago so there is no dust. But after searching the net for my problem, people said that it might be something else like my PSU, motherboard or ram.
What do you guys think and how can I be sure what is wrong? Unfortunately I don't have any other hardware to check. I would appreciate any suggestions.
My 4 years old rig:
Case: Xigmatek Midgard
PSU: Chieftec APS-500S
MB: Asrock 870 Extreme3
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus
RAM: Corsair XMS3 2x2GB DDR3-1600 MHz
GPU: Gainward GTX 460
HDD: Samsung HD103SJ 1TB
So I was playing Diablo 3 for the second time in 1080p after buying a new monitor (LG 23MP23HQ-P, 1 week). My previous one was a LG Flatron 2042S.
Suddenly, the screen froze, artifacts appeared everywhere and my system rebooted.
I was having small artifacts in bios (random squares, red vertical lines etc, can't take a screenshot now) and when windows loaded, it wouldn't let me change the resolution from 800x600.
Tried reinstalling the drivers, tried a vga cable instead of the hdmi I had but nothing changed. Sometimes it would let me change to 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 but I still had artifacts.
After that, I wanted to try uninstalling the drivers with DDU but after loading the files for the safe mode the screen would go black.
Seeing I can't do anything, I formatted my disk but I was having the same symptoms. Without the GPU drivers, my resolution can't get more than 800x600.
Also, before and after formatting, SpeedFan wouldn't show the GPU temperature, although the fan was spinning as always. In my device manager I can't find it either. My temperatures were always good, instead of my GPU that was at 75-80 top under stress which I think is normal. I never overclocked anything.
I'm pretty sure that my GPU is dead. I cleaned my whole hardware like 2 weeks ago so there is no dust. But after searching the net for my problem, people said that it might be something else like my PSU, motherboard or ram.
What do you guys think and how can I be sure what is wrong? Unfortunately I don't have any other hardware to check. I would appreciate any suggestions.
My 4 years old rig:
Case: Xigmatek Midgard
PSU: Chieftec APS-500S
MB: Asrock 870 Extreme3
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus
RAM: Corsair XMS3 2x2GB DDR3-1600 MHz
GPU: Gainward GTX 460
HDD: Samsung HD103SJ 1TB
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