- Dec 2, 2014
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Hi,
I have some weird and terrible issues with my computer.
Since 1 or 2 days, if i play a game (i tried Team Fortress 2, Dark Souls 3, The Witcher 2), the whole system/os freezes and the monitor just shows some stripes (usually grey). Btw the computer won't boot/reboot unless i press the "reset" button. Sounds like a dead gpu, yeah. I removed the gpu, now the pc boots fine tho i had a windows 10 freeze during the loading screen before logging.
For some reasons, i think that it's not a faulty gpu, or maybe something else killed the gpu: my cpu fan isn't spinning at all when plugged to "cpu fan 1" on the mobo. So i've been plugging it to "sysfan" for some months now but it's not spinning really fast (i can even hear the "slow" noise at night). That's a thermalright fan, but the original intel fan with its heatsink IS ACTUALLY WORKING when plugged to that same "cpu fan 1" port.
Couldthat be a PSU issue then? Or a faulty mobo? I don't have [decent] spare hardware parts to test it and i'm too selfish to pay 60€ for the repairman to check what's wrong. Can somebody tell me his opnion about this please? I definitely want to buy a new psu and a gtx1060 now but i don't know what to think, if i'm right or wrong.
I also had weird issues over the past year in that rig: a new mouse wasn't working properly after some days (RMA'd it, the new one had different issues apparently fixed by the big Win 10 anniversary update). There's also an old ODD that was causing troubles (had to unplug it, can't use discs since) but i believe that's because it's 6 years old. I also have regular network troubles but i hope that's my ISP's fault.
the rig is:
motherboard: z87-g45
Cpu: i5-4670k
8g Ram (kingston)
R9 280x OC 3gb (sapphire)
Windows 10 x64
PSU: antec hcg 520w... from 2011
I have some weird and terrible issues with my computer.
Since 1 or 2 days, if i play a game (i tried Team Fortress 2, Dark Souls 3, The Witcher 2), the whole system/os freezes and the monitor just shows some stripes (usually grey). Btw the computer won't boot/reboot unless i press the "reset" button. Sounds like a dead gpu, yeah. I removed the gpu, now the pc boots fine tho i had a windows 10 freeze during the loading screen before logging.
For some reasons, i think that it's not a faulty gpu, or maybe something else killed the gpu: my cpu fan isn't spinning at all when plugged to "cpu fan 1" on the mobo. So i've been plugging it to "sysfan" for some months now but it's not spinning really fast (i can even hear the "slow" noise at night). That's a thermalright fan, but the original intel fan with its heatsink IS ACTUALLY WORKING when plugged to that same "cpu fan 1" port.
Couldthat be a PSU issue then? Or a faulty mobo? I don't have [decent] spare hardware parts to test it and i'm too selfish to pay 60€ for the repairman to check what's wrong. Can somebody tell me his opnion about this please? I definitely want to buy a new psu and a gtx1060 now but i don't know what to think, if i'm right or wrong.
I also had weird issues over the past year in that rig: a new mouse wasn't working properly after some days (RMA'd it, the new one had different issues apparently fixed by the big Win 10 anniversary update). There's also an old ODD that was causing troubles (had to unplug it, can't use discs since) but i believe that's because it's 6 years old. I also have regular network troubles but i hope that's my ISP's fault.
the rig is:
motherboard: z87-g45
Cpu: i5-4670k
8g Ram (kingston)
R9 280x OC 3gb (sapphire)
Windows 10 x64
PSU: antec hcg 520w... from 2011
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