Odd Computer Error

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YukiFujimoto

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A few days ago I overclocked my computer and It was working fine. It did go between 55 - 65 C with Intel Cpu Heat sink. I was told it should be fine and it was. Then one day I wanted to see why my Graphics Card wouldn't power. I was switching adapter pieces. Then I noticed why and I was using an adapter on the CPU power connector (8 Pin) thinking it was a 8 pin PCI-E connector. I have done this before and It would only trip and not turn on. My PSU is modular and I received it off a friend. This PSU is odd because it uses 6 Pin PCI-Es as the modular cable and it did not come with a 6 pin PCI-E to 6 pin PCI-E to hook my Graphics Card up. So as I said earlier I bought an incorrect adapter. Even though I tried to use a 8 Pin Cpu power to a 6 Pin PCI-E before it did nothing, The second test around where I find out why I am an Idiot I noticed about the problem. I boot the computer up and it starts failing. It started failing. Windows was running super slow and funny and I started receiving weird boot error in the system half the time it wouldn't boot. I turned off the Overclocking and still it acted so funny and slow. I am wondering what this could be. Any help would be nice. One thing that I can remember very vividly was watching YouTube. I watched the video and the audio would fail and other symptoms alike.

My Specs:
Intel Core Duo E7300
Asus P5Q-EM
A slimgate 1tb Laptop Hard Drive
Geforce 7600 GS
 
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You were overclocking the system, and using the wrong power connector, you have a lot of failure points there.

You could have damaged the video card, power supply could be bad, hard drive could be bad, that system is a mess in general old CPU, old video card, laptop hard drive which may be running at 5400 rpm and slowing down the whole computer.

I would not put time or money into fixing this system, buy a used Core i3 or i5 tower system with a 280+ watt power supply, get a GTX 750 Ti card for it. Whole thing should be about $150 total including a used working video card. Just make sure you test it before buying.
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You were overclocking the system, and using the wrong power connector, you have a lot of failure points there.

You could have damaged the video card, power supply could be bad, hard drive could be bad, that system is a mess in general old CPU, old video card, laptop hard drive which may be running at 5400 rpm and slowing down the whole computer.

I would not put time or money into fixing this system, buy a used Core i3 or i5 tower system with a 280+ watt power supply, get a GTX 750 Ti card for it. Whole thing should be about $150 total including a used working video card. Just make sure you test it before buying.
 
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YukiFujimoto

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Thank you for your solution and it is not a bad idea. I was studying and testing with the other junk I have and found out the SATA cable went bad and the system it self did not like that. My power cable in the system is slight sensitive and that did not help out the cause. Once again thanks for your time.

 
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