- May 21, 2013
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My computer started crashing during gameplay recently to a blue or gray screen, and I would have to manually reboot. Once, I got these red bars on the BIOS screen made up of horizontal red lines, and the computer would not boot to Windows, but when I rebooted it worked fine. Last night, the computer crashed during normal use (nothing strenuous in the past hour plus). Since then, it has been giving me the red bars and not booting to Windows.
Here is video of what it is doing: https://youtu.be/IK7xoxn18yk (There is a lot of noise in the audio but nothing important I don't think--just creaky ceiling fan, AC, etc. Feel free to mute.)
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 7950
CPU: AMD FX-8350
PSU: OCZ ZT 750W
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+
I have tried:
(1) Running the computer with each stick of RAM separately.
(2) Running the computer without the GPU in. (I do not have on-board video, so I was not able to use the monitor, but the keyboard and mouse lights, which were going out when Windows failed to boot before, stayed on indefinitely.)
(3) Reseating the GPU and the the cords connecting it to the PSU.
(4) Checking the voltages in BIOS, which all seemed to be within normal ranges.
(5) I have been monitoring the temp of the GPU and CPU lately, since the crashes began, and cleaning everything neurotically. I have not seen any dangerously high temps.
I suspect the graphics card is a goner, but I was hoping someone with more expertise could verify if that is the most likely case before I drop money on a new one.
Here is video of what it is doing: https://youtu.be/IK7xoxn18yk (There is a lot of noise in the audio but nothing important I don't think--just creaky ceiling fan, AC, etc. Feel free to mute.)
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 7950
CPU: AMD FX-8350
PSU: OCZ ZT 750W
Motherboard: Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 ATX AM3+
I have tried:
(1) Running the computer with each stick of RAM separately.
(2) Running the computer without the GPU in. (I do not have on-board video, so I was not able to use the monitor, but the keyboard and mouse lights, which were going out when Windows failed to boot before, stayed on indefinitely.)
(3) Reseating the GPU and the the cords connecting it to the PSU.
(4) Checking the voltages in BIOS, which all seemed to be within normal ranges.
(5) I have been monitoring the temp of the GPU and CPU lately, since the crashes began, and cleaning everything neurotically. I have not seen any dangerously high temps.
I suspect the graphics card is a goner, but I was hoping someone with more expertise could verify if that is the most likely case before I drop money on a new one.
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