- Jan 7, 2017
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Last week while I was playing Guild Wars 2, right in the middle of a world boss battle, my computer freezes, displaying a brown screen with vertical grey lines with the sound frozen in the background. Upon restarting, no POST. After many hours of half-drunken fuckery I discover my video card had died, as I could only get POST with the IGP without the video card plugged in, as well as removing the memory I have in slot 3 (Slot 4 was unoccupied). However, twice I was able to get POST (with no video) with the 3rd slot occupied, but only those two times.
Later I discovered not only did the video card die, the second memory channel appears dead too (Slots 3 and 4). If any memory is in those slots, it will not POST. I tested it with 5 other supported chips I have laying around that are known to be either good or good enough to boot (Some cause random BSODs).
That seems far too coincidental to me. I have a strong understanding of computers and electronics in general, but I'm at a loss on this one. Did my PSU do something, is my mobo going poo-poo? Just to note, while the 2 memory slots are dead, only the video card is dead, the PCI-E x16 slot is fine (I currently have an nVidia 9800 GTX+ in as a temp).
Specs (When the crash occurred):
Motherboard - MSI 785GT-E63
Processor - AMD Phenom X4 940
Memory -
-DIMM0: Samsung DDR2-800 1GB (M3 78T2953EZ3-CF7) (Now removed)
-DIMM1: Kingston DDR2-800 2GB (TYG410-ELF)
-DIMM2: Kingston DDR2-800 2GB (TYG410-ELF) (Now occupying DIMM0)
-DIMM3: Empty
Video Card - MSI R7850 Twin Frozr 2GB (Now dead)
Sound Card - Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Edition
Power Supply - Thermaltake Smart 650W (Only 3 months old)
Later I discovered not only did the video card die, the second memory channel appears dead too (Slots 3 and 4). If any memory is in those slots, it will not POST. I tested it with 5 other supported chips I have laying around that are known to be either good or good enough to boot (Some cause random BSODs).
That seems far too coincidental to me. I have a strong understanding of computers and electronics in general, but I'm at a loss on this one. Did my PSU do something, is my mobo going poo-poo? Just to note, while the 2 memory slots are dead, only the video card is dead, the PCI-E x16 slot is fine (I currently have an nVidia 9800 GTX+ in as a temp).
Specs (When the crash occurred):
Motherboard - MSI 785GT-E63
Processor - AMD Phenom X4 940
Memory -
-DIMM0: Samsung DDR2-800 1GB (M3 78T2953EZ3-CF7) (Now removed)
-DIMM1: Kingston DDR2-800 2GB (TYG410-ELF)
-DIMM2: Kingston DDR2-800 2GB (TYG410-ELF) (Now occupying DIMM0)
-DIMM3: Empty
Video Card - MSI R7850 Twin Frozr 2GB (Now dead)
Sound Card - Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Edition
Power Supply - Thermaltake Smart 650W (Only 3 months old)
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