Computer randomly crashes every few hours

sorryboi

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Dec 26, 2016
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Hi, I am pretty sure this is something with my GPU. I get two different crashes, one where everything seems normal but my monitor just says like its going to sleep and another where the screen goes black for a few seconds while repeating audio, and then showing a random solid color on my screen until i power off the machine. The 2nd one, i noticed, happens when maybe the fan randomly stops spinning on my pc, i usually just reseat it into my pci slot and it works fine, and i await the next crash that usually happens within another few hours.
Also, reseating the gpu is a pain because the more it gets toward the end of the card the less deep it goes in.
 
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the gpu should be well seated on the board so you need to remove it and put it strait back in the way you explain it look like some contact are not fully in the motherboard slot .

sorryboi

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I think the problem was that the gpu keeps kind of falling down a bit, i was never- ever- able to get the entire gpu into the pci slot but it had always been close enough. Same still goes, but i attached straps so that the gpu wont fall.