Am I Having PSU or Graphics Card Problems?

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For the past few weeks, I was having constant shutdowns and freezes, maybe I get about 3-4 freezes a day. Last sunday, once again my computer froze, as I was trying to boot it up again, it failed. And i found out that It won't boot up if I'm using my graphics card. This problem isn't new to me because it happened many times before and was able to fix it through reseating. But right now, it wont boot up. I'm using integrated graphics and it sucks. Yesterday I tried to plug the graphics card again to try, after 3-4 attempts of reseating and hoping to get my monitor to come up, it opened but after 10 minutes of gaming my screen froze, and i was not able to boot up the computer again. Today I tried to fix it again, the fans are lighting up my keyboard lights up, and I can hear the windows start up sound through my headphones but my monitor isn't displaying anything. I tried HDMI, nothing. VGA, nothing. I checked the cables if it was working, and it did. Am I having problems with my PSU or Video card?

Windows 10 Home 32-bit (10.0, Build 10586) (10586.th2_release.160104-1513) Language: English
Motherboard: G41T-R3
Processor: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5800 @ 3.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM

and my video card is NVIDIA GEFORCE GT630, I have a 600 watt generic PSU, im using it for almost 5 years. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys
 
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If you can hear it boot but see nothing, my guess would be a bad card. Even a junk "600W" PSU should handle an old dual core CPU and low end 630 just fine.
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Easiest solution would be to troubleshoot, get a GPU from a friend and try it in your pc, try your card in your friends pc. Should give you the answer, anything else is guesswork.
 
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Hey Marc

Are you able to remove the GPU and try starting up your pc using on board graphics?
Also did you recently get this GPU, or have you had your current system for a while?

I'm also wondering if overheating is maybe a problem, perhaps you can try cleaning out your pc, and re-applying thermal paste and then giving it another go.
When you say you had 3-4 freezes per day, it seems very likely to me that it's an overheating issue, did you notice the pc freezing when you were doing resource intensive things? Or when you'd had your pc on for a while?
 
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misclicked the best solution button lol.

Yeah, im using onboard graphics right now. My GPU is old, almost 4 years.

I cleaned it yesterday, removed the dust from the heatsink and graphics card. Sometimes it freezes and sometimes I get this screen where there are green squares covering up the screen, while playing CSGO, i know that the system is still working because i can hear the ingame sounds. I get freezes when I do aftereffects and gaming.
 
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Like myhhardware said, troubleshooting is obviously your best friend.

So if possible try another PSU and GPU. Those green blocks in cs:go sound familiar, try deactivating Antialiasing and see if that helps.
With the onboard graphics does your pc ever freeze?
 
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MarcSantos

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Yeah it just randomly happens in game :(.
No, since monday after i put on the onboard graphics my pc never froze.
 
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