Need Help Terrified for my PC

DeumBelli

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Something went wrong on my pc and i need help fixing it. Ill start with how ot happened.

I was playing Dragons dogma pc and it suddenly crashed. I didnt think anything of it so i started it up again. It crashed again but this time it crashed my whole pc. It got stuck on a black screen with a lot of noise coming through my headset. I couldnt do anything on my pc. Windows key or ctrl alt delete worked so i restarted my pc with the power button.

When it came back on it showed the bios load up screen but there was a bunch of lines on it. After it finished loading a windows 10 screen popped up. It doesnt go to the desktop but instead It said something about something not loading right and doing some kind of recovery. It still has the lines on screen at this point.

This is my first pc build from back in oct of 2014 so im not experienced on the troubleshooting part. I assumed it was my gpu that died but i dont understand why the windows thing comes up.

I would like to know what people on here has to say.

Also if its my gpu should i beable to turn it off somehow to switch to onboard graphics to see it is infact my gpu. If so how do i do it. Through bios somehow or taking it out of my pc?
 
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This is with your old Graphics Card? And it seems fine with Integrated? If so, you should follow one of the recovery options, hopefully you've been diligent with your backups *glances at external HDD with old backups not done for months*.

DeumBelli

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I took out my gpu and tried hdmi on the mobo but my monitor doesnt even get a signal for some reason.

My pc specs are
Gtx 970
8 gb ram
Msi gaming 5 mobo
I5 4690k
Ssd os drive
I dont have anything oc
 


Hmmm, you may have to try getting into the bios with the old card. I don't have alot of experience with integrated video. Sounds as though you will have to re-enable it manually.
 

DeumBelli

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I cant seem to find it in the bios. Maybebit detects automatically.

So i have a friend that might have an nvidia gpu that i can use to test. So my question here is. Its a different card like lets say i have a 970 and he has. 660 will the 660 work by plugging it in or does it need seperate drivers. Because if it needs seperate drivers that wont be a viable way for me to test it since i cant get into windows
 


It will work well enough to determine whether you have a hardware issue or not (lines gone) The windows issue is likely collateral damage from a suspected hardware failure. It should do a scan on bootup to determine any issues, let it do this and see if it gets to the desktop. You ARE going to have a driver issue if you get to this point but it's easily dealt will and not an issue as far as troubleshooting.
 

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Ok i did find a way to turn on integrated gpu and i did that. The lines went away but im still having the issues with windows. It has a light blue screen titled recovery saying windows didnt load correctly and it gives me different recovery options
 


This is with your old Graphics Card? And it seems fine with Integrated? If so, you should follow one of the recovery options, hopefully you've been diligent with your backups *glances at external HDD with old backups not done for months*.
 
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