Brief history. I built a W7 machine a few months ago, and overall it has been working pretty well. I noticed shortly after purchasing that I'd occasionally have problems where my system would entirely freeze up (I thought it was the so-called W7 black screen of death). This would happen about 1-2 times a week.
Things got better and I didn't notice any major problems until last week when my PC froze about 15 times in a 4-day period. Things got better again for 5 days until today. Now I can't even get the machine to boot into Windows at all. The PSU will power-up the machine, but all I see is a black screen. I thought it might be my power supply, but I tried a spare I had and that didn't work either. I'm pretty sure now that it is either my video card or my MB, but don't know for certain. If I disconnect my monitor from the video card, I get the standard notice that the monitor is disconnected, but I'm not sure if that eliminates a video card problem.
Unfortunately I don't have a spare MB or video card to use as a tester, so I'm trying to pinpoint as much as possible. I'm inclined to say it's a MB problem at this point, but these problems are tricky to identify. Does anyone have any ideas?
Motherboard:
ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790X
Video card:
EVGA GeForce GTS 250
Things got better and I didn't notice any major problems until last week when my PC froze about 15 times in a 4-day period. Things got better again for 5 days until today. Now I can't even get the machine to boot into Windows at all. The PSU will power-up the machine, but all I see is a black screen. I thought it might be my power supply, but I tried a spare I had and that didn't work either. I'm pretty sure now that it is either my video card or my MB, but don't know for certain. If I disconnect my monitor from the video card, I get the standard notice that the monitor is disconnected, but I'm not sure if that eliminates a video card problem.
Unfortunately I don't have a spare MB or video card to use as a tester, so I'm trying to pinpoint as much as possible. I'm inclined to say it's a MB problem at this point, but these problems are tricky to identify. Does anyone have any ideas?
Motherboard:
ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790X
Video card:
EVGA GeForce GTS 250