- Mar 22, 2012
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I've got a rough situation with my computer and there's always Faq's or what to do's when your pc dies on this site and since I've tried everything I can think of or have read I have decided to make a topic about it asking the good people of toms hardware.
Intro;
For a while my computer was always overheating, the fans were churning, just really loud and over the top annoying, I knew it was the PSU fan and I would clean it out on occasion. One day while playing on a video game, the pc was going crazy and froze a bit here and then then suddenly completely shut off. Nothing would work so I took it in the computer store, Apparently both the cpu and mobo blew up together, the tech person didn't mention anything to do with the PSU though, so I thought maybe it was the mobo and cpu making everything wrong. It was replaced with the same brand/type.
Motherboard Details.
Gigabyte GA-G41M-combo
After this I thought my computer would be new-ish and run fine like it used to before these issues, previously I could play most games on ultra, BF3 on high.
Same issues where my fps in-game would constantly drop from 40 to 10-15 no matter what I was doing, constant slowness, browser slowness, just SLOW.
I learnt to live with it up until one day yet again my computer just completely shut up and was showing no signs of power, which was about a week prior to making this topic. I tried all that I could, tried new power cords and everything but to no avail so I looked it up on my laptop and it appeared that my PSU was dead. So I spent 90dollars on a psu that would work with my system, my computer turned on.. I took it into my room and plugged up the monitor, it would not show any screen or display. I turned it off and moved the psu cables around thinking I had wrongly connected the cables to the Graphics card (it doesn't actually connect to the graphics card) this was not working so I, thinking I had reput my ram in the wrong slots, put my ddr2 ram into the DDr3 slots and turned it on, this caused smoke to come up, just a small ball of it. I turned it off and took out the ram just incase and now whenever I turn it on it will beep 3 times, not 1 long two short, but just beep beep beep, all at same speed. Apparently it's a 64k ram/memory issue. The beeping is coming from around the mobo/graphics card, it sounds like the graphics card but i cannot be 100%.
I tried putting my mates DDr3 ram into the DDr3 slots and it still made the beeping noises, so I don't know if it's the ram, I've properly fastened the ram, I don't think i've bent the slots or damaged them.
I also tried his harddrive and random things the net told me to.
It will cost quite a bit of money just for the local tech to look at it and tell me he's going to have to charge me a million dollars to fix it (may be an exaggeration)
So mr. tomshardware kind people, please respond and guide/inform me what I've done and how it if possible can be fixed, I'd be happy to tell you any information requested. I cannot turn it on but I know most of the info.
Windows 7 32-bit 4gb ram 2.50gz dual core.
Gigabyte GA-G41M-combo Motherboard
Ati radeon 5500 - Old yes I know, planning on upgrading.
Intro;
For a while my computer was always overheating, the fans were churning, just really loud and over the top annoying, I knew it was the PSU fan and I would clean it out on occasion. One day while playing on a video game, the pc was going crazy and froze a bit here and then then suddenly completely shut off. Nothing would work so I took it in the computer store, Apparently both the cpu and mobo blew up together, the tech person didn't mention anything to do with the PSU though, so I thought maybe it was the mobo and cpu making everything wrong. It was replaced with the same brand/type.
Motherboard Details.
Gigabyte GA-G41M-combo
After this I thought my computer would be new-ish and run fine like it used to before these issues, previously I could play most games on ultra, BF3 on high.
Same issues where my fps in-game would constantly drop from 40 to 10-15 no matter what I was doing, constant slowness, browser slowness, just SLOW.
I learnt to live with it up until one day yet again my computer just completely shut up and was showing no signs of power, which was about a week prior to making this topic. I tried all that I could, tried new power cords and everything but to no avail so I looked it up on my laptop and it appeared that my PSU was dead. So I spent 90dollars on a psu that would work with my system, my computer turned on.. I took it into my room and plugged up the monitor, it would not show any screen or display. I turned it off and moved the psu cables around thinking I had wrongly connected the cables to the Graphics card (it doesn't actually connect to the graphics card) this was not working so I, thinking I had reput my ram in the wrong slots, put my ddr2 ram into the DDr3 slots and turned it on, this caused smoke to come up, just a small ball of it. I turned it off and took out the ram just incase and now whenever I turn it on it will beep 3 times, not 1 long two short, but just beep beep beep, all at same speed. Apparently it's a 64k ram/memory issue. The beeping is coming from around the mobo/graphics card, it sounds like the graphics card but i cannot be 100%.
I tried putting my mates DDr3 ram into the DDr3 slots and it still made the beeping noises, so I don't know if it's the ram, I've properly fastened the ram, I don't think i've bent the slots or damaged them.
I also tried his harddrive and random things the net told me to.
It will cost quite a bit of money just for the local tech to look at it and tell me he's going to have to charge me a million dollars to fix it (may be an exaggeration)
So mr. tomshardware kind people, please respond and guide/inform me what I've done and how it if possible can be fixed, I'd be happy to tell you any information requested. I cannot turn it on but I know most of the info.
Windows 7 32-bit 4gb ram 2.50gz dual core.
Gigabyte GA-G41M-combo Motherboard
Ati radeon 5500 - Old yes I know, planning on upgrading.
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