Hi all,
components:
MOBO: B75MA-E33 {4 years old}
CPU: i7 3770 {4 years old}
GPU: asus strik 970 {1 year old}
RAM: 16gb hyperx fury (dual kit) [ddr3] {6 months old}
PSU: Antec Edge 650w {1 year old}
-OS on ssd, hdd for space, both a year old-
a few days ago my pc froze up while booting Overwatch (completely, no cntrl alt del, no mouse movement) and after a manual shutdown from the front case switch it refuses to reboot.
when I would attempt to restart nothing would happen at all. However, my gpu has a white light on it (stable, doesn't blink) which i always assumed indicated power. This light usually only comes on when the pc itself is turned on (from memory), however it was turning on as soon as the psu was flipped to on.
I'm not 100% on this, but i may of heard an audible pop on about my fifth attempt to turn the psu on, however this could of just been the switch and i couldn't smell anything or see anything blown on at least the mobo.
any advice would be great, also I'd like to know the risk of putting this gpu into another machine. If I can't get the thing to post it's a good excuse to upgrade some of the old hardware, but I'm concerned that maybe the gpu caused the freeze and i don't want it to fry any new parts. I say this only because of it happening when i booted a game and because of the led. i have attempted to boot without the gpu installed to no joy.
Thanks all in advance!
components:
MOBO: B75MA-E33 {4 years old}
CPU: i7 3770 {4 years old}
GPU: asus strik 970 {1 year old}
RAM: 16gb hyperx fury (dual kit) [ddr3] {6 months old}
PSU: Antec Edge 650w {1 year old}
-OS on ssd, hdd for space, both a year old-
a few days ago my pc froze up while booting Overwatch (completely, no cntrl alt del, no mouse movement) and after a manual shutdown from the front case switch it refuses to reboot.
when I would attempt to restart nothing would happen at all. However, my gpu has a white light on it (stable, doesn't blink) which i always assumed indicated power. This light usually only comes on when the pc itself is turned on (from memory), however it was turning on as soon as the psu was flipped to on.
I'm not 100% on this, but i may of heard an audible pop on about my fifth attempt to turn the psu on, however this could of just been the switch and i couldn't smell anything or see anything blown on at least the mobo.
any advice would be great, also I'd like to know the risk of putting this gpu into another machine. If I can't get the thing to post it's a good excuse to upgrade some of the old hardware, but I'm concerned that maybe the gpu caused the freeze and i don't want it to fry any new parts. I say this only because of it happening when i booted a game and because of the led. i have attempted to boot without the gpu installed to no joy.
Thanks all in advance!