Ever since I got a GIGABYTE Geforce 650ti 3 years ago I've had boot problems.
I recently replaced the mobo/ram/cpu so I know those are good, and the issues existed before I added those parts in. I updated those parts anyway but hoped as a side effect maybe the booting issues I saw would go away. They didn't.
Back when I was originally dealing with the GPU issues, I swapped out a PSU so I am somewhat sure it's not that. Today a day or two after replacing the mobo/cpu/ram I had a few crashes in a row while playing and launching a game. Annoyed, I pulled the GPU and played Overwatch with the onboard graphics (it looks like a PS2 game - very enjoyable) and the system was stable.
Since then I've had no crashes, and the computer runs a lot better overall. No boot issues either, and it's a ton faster.
It seems pretty evident this GPU is the issue - but can a bad GPU make the whole system slow? I was having issues with boot times, slow things like launch programs in Windows, etc. Without the GPU everything is pretty snappy.
The other option I've kicked around is replacing the HDD. I think I have an old hard drive laying around somewhere I could reinstall windows on. If it had no issues, then I could be pretty certain that its not the HDD either. But as I stated - I had no issues w/ this build until I slipped the GPU in, and when I remove it, the problems seem to go away.
EDIT: Here is a video of what is happening on a boot fail: https://youtu.be/Cc5le0MDfzw
I recently replaced the mobo/ram/cpu so I know those are good, and the issues existed before I added those parts in. I updated those parts anyway but hoped as a side effect maybe the booting issues I saw would go away. They didn't.
Back when I was originally dealing with the GPU issues, I swapped out a PSU so I am somewhat sure it's not that. Today a day or two after replacing the mobo/cpu/ram I had a few crashes in a row while playing and launching a game. Annoyed, I pulled the GPU and played Overwatch with the onboard graphics (it looks like a PS2 game - very enjoyable) and the system was stable.
Since then I've had no crashes, and the computer runs a lot better overall. No boot issues either, and it's a ton faster.
It seems pretty evident this GPU is the issue - but can a bad GPU make the whole system slow? I was having issues with boot times, slow things like launch programs in Windows, etc. Without the GPU everything is pretty snappy.
The other option I've kicked around is replacing the HDD. I think I have an old hard drive laying around somewhere I could reinstall windows on. If it had no issues, then I could be pretty certain that its not the HDD either. But as I stated - I had no issues w/ this build until I slipped the GPU in, and when I remove it, the problems seem to go away.
EDIT: Here is a video of what is happening on a boot fail: https://youtu.be/Cc5le0MDfzw
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