So recently after about 1.5-2 hours of pc use my computer will crash.. Usually when playing an intensive video game, at first I thought this was a heat issue. I brought myself over two desk fans and set them up to help cool down my PC. When my computer crashes I can hear the video game I was playing in the background, but my screen is blank and I get a "No signal" from my monitor. Could this be a GPU issue? The hard drive that holds m personal files and OS is about 5 years old now, I know they like to deteriorate over time. It doesn't help that it's mounted in a "ghetto" fashion (It's suspended over the other hard drive resting on some elastic type material). I also applied new thermal paste about a month ago, and before that two months. I also have an issue that could be seperate but related. When booting up, my PC will go into the BIOS screen with the ASUS logo showing and something along the lines of "Press f5(?) to go to bios menu". When the computer crashes or I turn it on after turning it off. the ASUS logo disappears and I'm stuck at that screen, but if I turn off my PC and back on by holding the power button it starts up normally and goes to the BIOS. Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated. (My team mates in Rainbow Six Sieges are getting mad at me for disconnecting so often)
SPECS:
OS -- Windows 10
CPU -- AMD FX-6300 Vishera 6-Core 3.5 GHz Socket AM3+
GPU -- MSI Gaming N780 TF 3GD5/OC G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 780 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card
Motherboard -- ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
HDD(S) --
#1 (Personal Files/OS): 500gb Hitachi
#2 (Games/Files): western digital 1tb black 3.5 internal hard drive wd1003fzex
RAM -- x2 Kingston 4gb
SPECS:
OS -- Windows 10
CPU -- AMD FX-6300 Vishera 6-Core 3.5 GHz Socket AM3+
GPU -- MSI Gaming N780 TF 3GD5/OC G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 780 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card
Motherboard -- ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
HDD(S) --
#1 (Personal Files/OS): 500gb Hitachi
#2 (Games/Files): western digital 1tb black 3.5 internal hard drive wd1003fzex
RAM -- x2 Kingston 4gb