- Jul 9, 2008
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I've had issues with my PC while playing Skyrim, where the game would crash and I'd get blue artifacts and dashes on the screen. I would need to do a hard reboot and I would get back to windows normally. But I wouldn't be able to continue since the same issue would happen again, so I just stopped.
But the other day I just browsing the internet, no graphic heavy or CPU heavy programs on or working in the background and my screen just went black. I had to hard reboot and while POST-ing, there appeared blue dashes on the screen and other random characters covering the regular POST text. I can't boot to windows normally, all I get is a black screen. I could, however, boot into Safe Mode but there are blue dashes all over the screen. So I suspect it's my GPU being the culprit and it got fried.
I also suspected it's my RAM, so I tried removing one of the two sticks and shuffle them around but same issue.
Here's a video of my PC screen while POST-ing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0jt-_RCU5k ) and a couple of screenshots of the desktop (http://imgur.com/a/XT6eQ#mSd2d )
My current build:
PSU: Gigabyte 1000W
Processor: Intel Quad Core Q9300 2.5GHz
RAM: Corsair 2x2GB DDR2
Motherboard: XFX 780i 3way SLI
GPU: XFX Nvidia GTX 280
OS: Windows VISTA Ultimate 64-bit
(All hardware are on default factory settings and no overclocking is done)
So the issue right now is getting a new GPU, I don't want to spend too much and would appreciate some good suggestions which will be good for my build AND compatible. The other thing is the spacing of the GPU itself to fit in my case. My current GPU is pretty big at 26.7cm x 11.1cm and fits (just!)
I checked the dimensions of the newer nVidia cards and I'm worried if they would fit, especially given the layout of my motherboard which has a bulky northboard heatsink just over the primary PCI-E 2.0 slot. Picture of my motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813141005
But the other day I just browsing the internet, no graphic heavy or CPU heavy programs on or working in the background and my screen just went black. I had to hard reboot and while POST-ing, there appeared blue dashes on the screen and other random characters covering the regular POST text. I can't boot to windows normally, all I get is a black screen. I could, however, boot into Safe Mode but there are blue dashes all over the screen. So I suspect it's my GPU being the culprit and it got fried.
I also suspected it's my RAM, so I tried removing one of the two sticks and shuffle them around but same issue.
Here's a video of my PC screen while POST-ing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0jt-_RCU5k ) and a couple of screenshots of the desktop (http://imgur.com/a/XT6eQ#mSd2d )
My current build:
PSU: Gigabyte 1000W
Processor: Intel Quad Core Q9300 2.5GHz
RAM: Corsair 2x2GB DDR2
Motherboard: XFX 780i 3way SLI
GPU: XFX Nvidia GTX 280
OS: Windows VISTA Ultimate 64-bit
(All hardware are on default factory settings and no overclocking is done)
So the issue right now is getting a new GPU, I don't want to spend too much and would appreciate some good suggestions which will be good for my build AND compatible. The other thing is the spacing of the GPU itself to fit in my case. My current GPU is pretty big at 26.7cm x 11.1cm and fits (just!)
I checked the dimensions of the newer nVidia cards and I'm worried if they would fit, especially given the layout of my motherboard which has a bulky northboard heatsink just over the primary PCI-E 2.0 slot. Picture of my motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813141005
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