[SOLVED] Is my GPU Dead ?

[d3mon4tor]

Rig:

Gigabyte 970a-ds3p
AMD FX-8350
Sapphire R9 270X 4GB
Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 (CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10)
Corsair VS650
Seagate Barracuda - 1TB

Haven't used this Rig for a couple of years. The RAM and HDD are brand new(Bought them a week back).

Installed windows 10 , worked fine for 2-3 days. Even played BF1 as well as BF4.

Then started getting BSOD's on boot.
Mostly IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error or System thread unhandled error or criticalrocess died error.
Could not boot into windows at all. Kept crashing every-time.

Tried formatting HDD and re-installing Windows 10 again. Didn't work.

Decided to try older windows 7.

Re-formatted and reinstalled windows 7.

Ran windows Memory Diagnostic tool to check Memory , nothing showed up there.

Now, windows crashes with BSOD, everytime I try to install AMD Driver for the GPU or when I try to run sfc /scannow on command prompt.

Also , Windows does not recognize the GPU in device manager. It just says generic VGA Device from AMD(I've connected it in the HDMI port).
Also , even in current windows 7, boot sometimes gets completely stuck on the windows Symbol(Will have to hard reboot in such case) .

I suspect either GPU is dead or something is Messed up in the Motherboard boot settings or both.

Any help is appreciated. TIA.

 

[Darkbreeze]

First thing I'd do is replace that PSU. It was not very good even when it was brand new, much less now many years later AND after having sat for a while with the internal capacitors degrading.

While it's certainly possible the graphics card is to blame, I think it's easily MORE likely to be a power supply issue.

There is also the possibility that it IS a motherboard problem, since that board was never in any way capable of reliably handling an 8 core FX processor. It was a decent board, for FX 6 core or lower, but it's very sketchy for 8 core usage and absolutely possible that the power delivery and VRM subsystems on that board simply became too weak to continue working due to the thermal fatigue they almost certainly suffered prior to be putting out to pasture previously, and now put back into service.

Regardless, if you plan to go forward with this system, which is probably not even worth putting money into, a new power supply or swapping in a KNOWN good quality working unit in it's place, is where I would start.