Hello,
So first of all I'll post the parts I have at my disposal, and the year in which I got it. (A full config + another GPU)
CPU : I5 2500K 3.3 GHZ (Feb. 2012)
8G Ram (Feb. 2012)
MB : MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) (Feb. 2012)
GPU : Sapphire Dual-X R9 270X OC (Jul. 2014) (And the other one is a : EVGA Nvidia GTX 960 SSC ACX 2.0 It's a friend's, he got it 2 weeks ago)
PSU : Cooler Master GX Power Bronze - 650W (Feb. 2012)
OS : Win 7 Pro 64 bits
Now, the (not so) fun part.
First issue I got was when I tried to play H1Z1.
I just played WoW for maybe 2 hours, then while trying to load the game menu of H1Z1 the screen turned in a full screen of a greeny-yellow colour, and I could hear the PC crash.
I tried to restart it, I could boot, got to see the Windows logo, then nothing. The CPU light was indicating it's working, but all I had was a black screen.
When I saw the Mother Board screen, and the Windows logo, there were stripes (mostly green, purple and pink) over the colors and some parts of the screen.
Tried to reboot once again, wouldn't work. Decided I'd wait 20min then try again, it worked, got to my desktop, but the stripes were still there. They only show up on colors, and shades of grey. Thought I had an issue with the GPU, so I asked a friend if I could borrow a GPU to test it.
His GPU doesn't fit the original port (PCI-E 2) because of the SATA ports on the MB, so I plugged it in the other one (PCI-E 5). Took off the R9 270X, and tried to boot. PC wouldn't boot, just a black screen with a "B2" on the bottom right of the screen. Then I'd get a black screen with a white stripe in the top left corner, which is blipping, as if it couldn't boot from anything. But, I didn't touch the HDD.
- I tried flashing the BIOS, nothing.
- I tried to insert a Windows 7 disk to boot from it, nothing.
- I tried to burn the computed and throw it out... Not yet, but I'm getting there.
So yeah, to sum it up :
PC crashed with a greeny-yellow colour screen (no BSOD at all during the whole process) -> Couldn't boot windows for a few minutes and stripes appeared -> Then it worked but I still had the stripes -> So I tried another GPU, but then the PC wouldn't even boot, even with a BIOS reset, or a Windows 7 Installation disk.
The only thing I didn't try is to start a game, but I'm assuming it will crash. IF I can boot windows normally, which doesn't seem to be an option anymore.
So, is it the MB, the PSU, the GPU, or maybe something else ?
I'm kinda short on ideas and I can't seem to be able to fix this mess.
If a kind soul could help me fix the issue(s), that'd be very nice. Pretty please.
So first of all I'll post the parts I have at my disposal, and the year in which I got it. (A full config + another GPU)
CPU : I5 2500K 3.3 GHZ (Feb. 2012)
8G Ram (Feb. 2012)
MB : MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) (Feb. 2012)
GPU : Sapphire Dual-X R9 270X OC (Jul. 2014) (And the other one is a : EVGA Nvidia GTX 960 SSC ACX 2.0 It's a friend's, he got it 2 weeks ago)
PSU : Cooler Master GX Power Bronze - 650W (Feb. 2012)
OS : Win 7 Pro 64 bits
Now, the (not so) fun part.
First issue I got was when I tried to play H1Z1.
I just played WoW for maybe 2 hours, then while trying to load the game menu of H1Z1 the screen turned in a full screen of a greeny-yellow colour, and I could hear the PC crash.
I tried to restart it, I could boot, got to see the Windows logo, then nothing. The CPU light was indicating it's working, but all I had was a black screen.
When I saw the Mother Board screen, and the Windows logo, there were stripes (mostly green, purple and pink) over the colors and some parts of the screen.
Tried to reboot once again, wouldn't work. Decided I'd wait 20min then try again, it worked, got to my desktop, but the stripes were still there. They only show up on colors, and shades of grey. Thought I had an issue with the GPU, so I asked a friend if I could borrow a GPU to test it.
His GPU doesn't fit the original port (PCI-E 2) because of the SATA ports on the MB, so I plugged it in the other one (PCI-E 5). Took off the R9 270X, and tried to boot. PC wouldn't boot, just a black screen with a "B2" on the bottom right of the screen. Then I'd get a black screen with a white stripe in the top left corner, which is blipping, as if it couldn't boot from anything. But, I didn't touch the HDD.
- I tried flashing the BIOS, nothing.
- I tried to insert a Windows 7 disk to boot from it, nothing.
- I tried to burn the computed and throw it out... Not yet, but I'm getting there.
So yeah, to sum it up :
PC crashed with a greeny-yellow colour screen (no BSOD at all during the whole process) -> Couldn't boot windows for a few minutes and stripes appeared -> Then it worked but I still had the stripes -> So I tried another GPU, but then the PC wouldn't even boot, even with a BIOS reset, or a Windows 7 Installation disk.
The only thing I didn't try is to start a game, but I'm assuming it will crash. IF I can boot windows normally, which doesn't seem to be an option anymore.
So, is it the MB, the PSU, the GPU, or maybe something else ?
I'm kinda short on ideas and I can't seem to be able to fix this mess.
If a kind soul could help me fix the issue(s), that'd be very nice. Pretty please.
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