After launching gta5 for the first time my PC got bricked

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piotor98

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I built my PC in January 2018 these are the specs:
Could: Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: Asus 1060 6gb
Mobo: MSI b350 tomahawk
Ram: Corsair vengeance lost black 8gb
Psu: Corsair cx550
Ssd:Kingston 120gb
Hdd:WD blue 1tb

I finished downloading gta5 for the first time on this PC. I pressed start and my PC froze with a loud and just awful noise in my headphones. I turned it off and back on, just to be greeted by my bios screen saying it's going to start automatic repair, but instead going into a black screen, from wich I rebooted. This repeated multiple times sometimes going into a Windows 10 bsod. The PC never gets past this black screen after the bios screen tells me it's gonna start repairing. I left the PC on for 1 hour on this black screen but it was still the same so I'm guessing it's not doing anything there?

Booting into a win10 bootable USB wasn't possible unless I unplugged the ssd.

I unplugged both my hdd and ssd and put in a drive from a laptop that's screen got damaged. I installed win10 on it and got all the way to the fresh windows desktop. Only to get a bsod after downloading updates through windows update. Now it's the same as with my original drives, black screen after bios loading screen.

So it's not the OS or the drives fault, what do I do? How can I further troubleshoot components if I don't own any other PC components to swap around with?

PC repair is like 100 euro just for them to unscrew the side panel so I'd rather avoid that
 
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nostall

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Hopefully you have a friend or two with computers; perhaps they will let you bring your RAM stick(s) to their place and use their PC to test them. If they are willing to do that just make sure that their system will accept the same RAM as yours (DDR4). Remember to turn off and unplug your PC (and theirs) before removing or installing the RAM.
If it isn't the RAM, then I would suggest that the motherboard or power supply is bad. Not a positively certain way to check the PSU given the symptoms/problems, but can you borrow a known, good working psu (as a second option you could buy a new psu but sometimes those are defective from the start) and try it on your PC. If you have the same problem with the known working PSU then I would suspect the Mobo.
 
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piotor98

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I cleared the cmos earlier and it didn't do anything. I managed to boot into safe mode earlier but it was insanely slugish and ended with a blue screen. I left my pc at a repair shop today so I'll post the result.
 
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All my friends are console plebs so I left the pc at a repair shop since I have no components to swap around.
 
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nostall

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Roger that. Please let us know what they discovered. Good Luck.
 
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The repair shop took 2 weeks to find the problem somehow, I live in a small town though. A little bit under 3 years I think. It was a 120gb kingston UV400. I'm thinking of getting a Crucial MX500 250GB as the replacement.
 
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