- Oct 2, 2013
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Okay, so... this is a bit of a story time, and I might have my computer freeze on me while I write this so hopefully there's something on these forums that saves what I write here (You could probably skip a couple paragraphs if you want, I'm just putting the whole story here in case this info turns out to be important). It all started with this ViewSonic VX2858sml monitor I got a while back. It was on sale and I was looking to replace my old monitor anyway, and I really didn't look into it, which was a mistake. So, I got this monitor, and despite it's glaring flaws, I'm still working with it until I start seeing small glitches on the screen every now and then. Little lines of pixelated noise in places on the screen. It was this, and the fact that I couldn't plug an HDMI cable into the back without getting these weird waves going down the screen like it's a really old TV set that made me decide to get a new monitor.
So I did some research and snagged me a decent Acer H276HL, and I thought my troubles might've been over. Nope. In fact they came back in full force, and my computer started freezing with graphical glitches. I remember once, the screen was just completely grey, another time it was grey and white pinstripes, and sometimes a bunch of colorful jaggy lines on top of whatever was on the screen at the time. This was around the time of the first BSOD, I think. (seen here: http://i.imgur.com/F02B2ko.jpg )
For a while, the PC wouldn't even get past the "welcome" chime when Windows 7 starts up, it would just glitch up with jaggy lines and freeze after the first few notes, and whenever the Safe Mode selection screen popped up, the keyboard wouldn't respond, even though it seemed to be getting power. So, putting my detective hat, I thought that it might be a graphical issue, and decided to switch out the current graphics card for an older one I had. Seemed to work fine, so I grabbed a spare Radeon HD 7870 I had (I tried to do SLI once upon a time, but it didn't work out) and slapped it in.
Now it lets me fairly consistently log into Windows, but it also still crashes quite a bit, sometimes after an hour, sometimes after running all day, but it usually crashes before the day's over. Keyboard still sometimes doesn't work when I get to the Safe Mode selection screen. Since then I've gotten two more BSOD's, one yesterday ( http://i.imgur.com/nGQzCRV.jpg ) and one today ( http://i.imgur.com/ab3qJUY.jpg ). Almost all crashes have been happening under minimal CPU and GPU load, just minor web browsing and maybe some video watching. All of the critical errors in the event viewer so far have looked like this ( http://i.imgur.com/an5zToV.png ) which, from what I've been able to surmise, is my computer's way of telling me "What do you mean I froze up? You're the one who pressed the restart button, dummy!"
What I have tried so far:
■ CPU: AMD FX-8150 3.6GHZ
■ MB: Asus Sabertooth 990FX SATA3 USB3 AM3+
■ RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) UDIMM Memory
■ PSU: Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 750 Watt ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Bronze
■ VC: AMD Radeon HD 7870
Okay, so... this is a bit of a story time, and I might have my computer freeze on me while I write this so hopefully there's something on these forums that saves what I write here (You could probably skip a couple paragraphs if you want, I'm just putting the whole story here in case this info turns out to be important). It all started with this ViewSonic VX2858sml monitor I got a while back. It was on sale and I was looking to replace my old monitor anyway, and I really didn't look into it, which was a mistake. So, I got this monitor, and despite it's glaring flaws, I'm still working with it until I start seeing small glitches on the screen every now and then. Little lines of pixelated noise in places on the screen. It was this, and the fact that I couldn't plug an HDMI cable into the back without getting these weird waves going down the screen like it's a really old TV set that made me decide to get a new monitor.
So I did some research and snagged me a decent Acer H276HL, and I thought my troubles might've been over. Nope. In fact they came back in full force, and my computer started freezing with graphical glitches. I remember once, the screen was just completely grey, another time it was grey and white pinstripes, and sometimes a bunch of colorful jaggy lines on top of whatever was on the screen at the time. This was around the time of the first BSOD, I think. (seen here: http://i.imgur.com/F02B2ko.jpg )
For a while, the PC wouldn't even get past the "welcome" chime when Windows 7 starts up, it would just glitch up with jaggy lines and freeze after the first few notes, and whenever the Safe Mode selection screen popped up, the keyboard wouldn't respond, even though it seemed to be getting power. So, putting my detective hat, I thought that it might be a graphical issue, and decided to switch out the current graphics card for an older one I had. Seemed to work fine, so I grabbed a spare Radeon HD 7870 I had (I tried to do SLI once upon a time, but it didn't work out) and slapped it in.
Now it lets me fairly consistently log into Windows, but it also still crashes quite a bit, sometimes after an hour, sometimes after running all day, but it usually crashes before the day's over. Keyboard still sometimes doesn't work when I get to the Safe Mode selection screen. Since then I've gotten two more BSOD's, one yesterday ( http://i.imgur.com/nGQzCRV.jpg ) and one today ( http://i.imgur.com/ab3qJUY.jpg ). Almost all crashes have been happening under minimal CPU and GPU load, just minor web browsing and maybe some video watching. All of the critical errors in the event viewer so far have looked like this ( http://i.imgur.com/an5zToV.png ) which, from what I've been able to surmise, is my computer's way of telling me "What do you mean I froze up? You're the one who pressed the restart button, dummy!"
What I have tried so far:
■ Turning it off and on again.
■ Opening the PC case and reseating everything.
■ Replacing the Graphics Card
■ System Restore.
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