This problem has been occurring since Tuesday (Feb. 14). However, I think the problem started earlier.
About a couple of weeks ago, I upgraded to the Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB graphics card. My previous graphics card was the Galaxy GTX 560 1GB that I had for almost 5 years. The upgrade was a success and it was working fine.
However, problems began on Friday (Feb. 10) when my PC wouldn't shut down for some reason. So I went to bed, thinking it was just taking a while to shut down.
When I woke up the next day (Saturday, Feb. 11), the PC was still on. So I had to press the power button to force it to shut down (actually, I think I turned it back on and everything was ok. I don't quite remember). I had to leave for the day.
When I came back and turned on my PC, it started having issues. Suddenly, it would blue screen on me in the middle of the Windows startup screen. I had to manually shut it down again.
I waited a while, and it started working again. Everything was normal. I browsed, gamed, did everything.
However, hours later, the "Windows theme" on my desktop would suddenly change to the default generic look instead of the Aero look. Not only that, but my PC started making a loud engine-like noise as well as a tiny "ticking" sound every few seconds or so. This problem would continue until Tuesday, but outside of that, everything was working just fine.
Then comes Tuesday morning. I turn on my PC and suddenly, it shuts off. So I unplugged and replugged the power connector to the motherboard, wondering if that was the issue again.
Turned on my PC again and it started to Blue Screen in the middle of the Windows startup again. Then, it would suddenly shut off.
After unplugging and replugging all of my other power connectors to the motherboard (GPU, CPU, RAM, Hard Drive), I booted it up again. This time, it looked like everything was working fine at first. Windows startup, welcome screen, desktop...then another blue screen and power down.
I thought this was an issue with my GPU, so I took it out and started using the integrated GPU on the motherboard. And it started working a little bit better: Windows startup, welcome screen, desktop, everything seemed normal.
However, now I would get a blue screen if there's a lot of things loading on the screen. For example, if I'm browsing YouTube or Facebook and a lot of things are loading, the PC would start to slow down...then the screen goes temporarily black...then a blue screen and then shut down.
Now of course the PC should be slower with the integrated graphics, but THIS slow? And then a blue screen after that?
Long story short, I'm able to use my PC to some capacity. I just can't load too much.
I've tried playing the basic Windows games like Solitaire and Minesweeper, but I'm worried that anything demanding I do would cause my PC to blue screen again.
Here's what the blue screen says:
http://i.imgur.com/k1pTXll.jpg
It starts with "STOP: 0x00000124" then a whole bunch of other numbers, then it says something about "crash dump" or "disk dump".
And here are my PC specs (as of February 2017):
Case: NZXT Gamma
Motherboard: ASRock B75M-DGS
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 - 3.4GHz
GPU: GIGABYTE NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 - 6GB
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz (Team Group Xtreem Dark 4GB + Kingston Hyper X Blu 4GB)
PSU: XFX TS Series 550W (Non-Modular)
OS: Windows 7 Professional - 64-bit
Storage (Internal): Seagate ST35000414CS 3.5" HDD - 500 GB
Storage (External): Seagate Expansion Drive USB 3.0 - 1TB
Mind you, I've had this PC for almost 5 years (since December 2012). I added an extra 4GB of RAM immediately after getting this PC, upgraded the CPU in May 2014, upgraded the power supply in August 2016, and upgraded the GPU this month. All the other PC parts (minus the external drive) have been there since 2012.
As for how much space I have on my internal drive, there's about 230 GB of free space left.
What do you think could be the issue?
Update: See here.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3333817/blue-screens-suddenly-shuts.html#19321616
About a couple of weeks ago, I upgraded to the Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB graphics card. My previous graphics card was the Galaxy GTX 560 1GB that I had for almost 5 years. The upgrade was a success and it was working fine.
However, problems began on Friday (Feb. 10) when my PC wouldn't shut down for some reason. So I went to bed, thinking it was just taking a while to shut down.
When I woke up the next day (Saturday, Feb. 11), the PC was still on. So I had to press the power button to force it to shut down (actually, I think I turned it back on and everything was ok. I don't quite remember). I had to leave for the day.
When I came back and turned on my PC, it started having issues. Suddenly, it would blue screen on me in the middle of the Windows startup screen. I had to manually shut it down again.
I waited a while, and it started working again. Everything was normal. I browsed, gamed, did everything.
However, hours later, the "Windows theme" on my desktop would suddenly change to the default generic look instead of the Aero look. Not only that, but my PC started making a loud engine-like noise as well as a tiny "ticking" sound every few seconds or so. This problem would continue until Tuesday, but outside of that, everything was working just fine.
Then comes Tuesday morning. I turn on my PC and suddenly, it shuts off. So I unplugged and replugged the power connector to the motherboard, wondering if that was the issue again.
Turned on my PC again and it started to Blue Screen in the middle of the Windows startup again. Then, it would suddenly shut off.
After unplugging and replugging all of my other power connectors to the motherboard (GPU, CPU, RAM, Hard Drive), I booted it up again. This time, it looked like everything was working fine at first. Windows startup, welcome screen, desktop...then another blue screen and power down.
I thought this was an issue with my GPU, so I took it out and started using the integrated GPU on the motherboard. And it started working a little bit better: Windows startup, welcome screen, desktop, everything seemed normal.
However, now I would get a blue screen if there's a lot of things loading on the screen. For example, if I'm browsing YouTube or Facebook and a lot of things are loading, the PC would start to slow down...then the screen goes temporarily black...then a blue screen and then shut down.
Now of course the PC should be slower with the integrated graphics, but THIS slow? And then a blue screen after that?
Long story short, I'm able to use my PC to some capacity. I just can't load too much.
I've tried playing the basic Windows games like Solitaire and Minesweeper, but I'm worried that anything demanding I do would cause my PC to blue screen again.
Here's what the blue screen says:
http://i.imgur.com/k1pTXll.jpg
It starts with "STOP: 0x00000124" then a whole bunch of other numbers, then it says something about "crash dump" or "disk dump".
And here are my PC specs (as of February 2017):
Case: NZXT Gamma
Motherboard: ASRock B75M-DGS
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 - 3.4GHz
GPU: GIGABYTE NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 - 6GB
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz (Team Group Xtreem Dark 4GB + Kingston Hyper X Blu 4GB)
PSU: XFX TS Series 550W (Non-Modular)
OS: Windows 7 Professional - 64-bit
Storage (Internal): Seagate ST35000414CS 3.5" HDD - 500 GB
Storage (External): Seagate Expansion Drive USB 3.0 - 1TB
Mind you, I've had this PC for almost 5 years (since December 2012). I added an extra 4GB of RAM immediately after getting this PC, upgraded the CPU in May 2014, upgraded the power supply in August 2016, and upgraded the GPU this month. All the other PC parts (minus the external drive) have been there since 2012.
As for how much space I have on my internal drive, there's about 230 GB of free space left.
What do you think could be the issue?
Update: See here.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3333817/blue-screens-suddenly-shuts.html#19321616
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