Is that a Death of GPU or Driver/Power Issue ?

VenX

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Sep 2, 2013
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Hello everyone, today a lot of weird stuff happened for my PC.

So i was playing a video game "Grid Autosport", then after some time my screen went black, i've tried to restart PC several times and the screen was always black after windows loading screen or i was moved to system restore menu, there i was trying to make a system restore via CMD and after that the issue repeated. So later i've tried a clean reinstall of my OS ( moved to Windows 7 from 8.1 Pro ) at first everything was fine, but after gpu driver installation the same issue occured, now just in a bit different way, sometimes i got the same black screen, sometimes a solid blue and sometimes i've seen my desktop with a glitched horizontal lines/artifacts and after few secs PC just crashed ( automatic restart or just freeze ).

More info:
My PC worked fine for almost 2years also it was not modified or OC'ed.

I don't have a GPU ( D-Sub / DVI ) output from the motherboard, i'm now using cable from my GPU ( it's not totally dead i guess 😀 )

Also i've seen some errors like "BOOTMGR IS MISSING", some errors in a row while installing Win7 ( Windows 7 files is corrupt or damaged etc. ), also one time PC just turned off while installing win7 at ~70%, not sure if it was Hardware issue or the power cable was not deep enough, because i moved the PC a bit from my desk, so i can switch my secondary HDD to CD-Room ( CD Room is turned off by default, due to lack of SATA cables inside ).

I've tried to remove the GPU to check the smell, there was no burn-like smell and didn't noticed anything weird on it, also it was not very dusty. The temperatures was always pretty good, 40-60celsius ( used HWMonitor to check maximum temps ).

Specs:

PSU: OCZ ZS 650W
GPU: Radeon HD 7850 2GB
CPU: i5-2320 @ 3.0 ( 3.3Ghz ) ( Sandy )
RAM: BallistiX Sport 8GB ( 2x4GB )
HDD: WD Green
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB
MB: GA-P61-S3

So i'm sitting in front of my PC with a fear to install GPU Drivers, atleast the basics works 😀