PC randomly crashes with solid color screen

DjTapke

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Jul 12, 2015
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So recently I've built a new pc. In the beginning everything was fine but one day I was playing minecraft and the screen went black. Everything crashed except the sound - the music was still playing but I had no response from PC when I tried to turn it off by pressing (not holding) the power button. Sometimes it crashes when I'm gaming, sometimes it crashes when I'm just watching youtube and sometimes it doesnt crash at all even if I'm playing games. And there were a few times when the sound crashed too. I think its because my gpu so I tried to update gpu bios, tried turning off power savings in amd control center but nothing helped. Oh and I forgot to mention: screen goes not only black. It were a few times when it came dark brown or dark blue but most commonly it goes white. Is my gpu faulty or is it other part? And if my gpu is faulty is there any way I could fix the problem by myself because I ordered it online and it would be complex to send it to the repair center?

PC Specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte B85-HD3
CPU: Intel i5-4440 3.10GHz
GPU: ASUS Radeon R9 270X DirectCU II 2GB
RAM: 2x2GB Kingston 1600MHz
HDD: 320gb 7200rpm sata 2 hdd (left from my old PC, don't know anything else about it)
PSU: Corsair VS550