Hello, I'm totally new here, so I hope I haven't posted this in a wrong section or something. Also, please excuse my not-so-good English, it's not my main language.
Straight to my problem, tho.
For Christmas I've ordered brand new 16GB of RAM, which I terribly needed, because working in few Adobe apps at once takes more than 8 gigs, which I had before. Anyways, I replaced the old kit, put in the new one. For a day, everything was fine, but after I booted my computer the next day and launched Watch Dogs 2, it froze completely. Hard reset was the only way out. Tried the same procedure 2 more times just to make sure that it wasn't random. I obviously got a little bit mad because I blamed the new RAM for the issue. Tried using different slots (originally used 2nd and 4th, tried 1st and 3rd). It actually worked... but just for few hours. After that computer froze again, weird glitch art (heh) or something popped on the screen, sound stuttered and then I got BSOD. Well, I thought that I will just put the old RAM kit in and it's goona be fine, sadly, it didn't work either, which got me confused.
Now, the problem's even worse - computer sometimes doesn't even get to a MOBO boot screen (shuts down after few seconds), few times ended up in a boot loop. But usually I get to the welcome messeges of fresh Windows installation, then BSOD.
Since I ran out of ideas what to try to find out what's wrong or which component is broken, I'm reaching out for help.
What I've tried so far:
- Reinstalling Windows
- Using old RAM, using different RAM slots
- Booting without GPU, using the integrated one
- Resetting BIOS
- And booting Ubuntu from live USB (since that didn't freeze or anything, I'm assuming it's the HDD, but not sure)
Computer Specs (nothing is OC):
- Core i5-4690k
- MOBO MSI Z97 Gaming 3
- GTX 660
- HDD Western Digital Black 1TB
- Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB
- PSU Chieftec GPA-400S8
Straight to my problem, tho.
For Christmas I've ordered brand new 16GB of RAM, which I terribly needed, because working in few Adobe apps at once takes more than 8 gigs, which I had before. Anyways, I replaced the old kit, put in the new one. For a day, everything was fine, but after I booted my computer the next day and launched Watch Dogs 2, it froze completely. Hard reset was the only way out. Tried the same procedure 2 more times just to make sure that it wasn't random. I obviously got a little bit mad because I blamed the new RAM for the issue. Tried using different slots (originally used 2nd and 4th, tried 1st and 3rd). It actually worked... but just for few hours. After that computer froze again, weird glitch art (heh) or something popped on the screen, sound stuttered and then I got BSOD. Well, I thought that I will just put the old RAM kit in and it's goona be fine, sadly, it didn't work either, which got me confused.
Now, the problem's even worse - computer sometimes doesn't even get to a MOBO boot screen (shuts down after few seconds), few times ended up in a boot loop. But usually I get to the welcome messeges of fresh Windows installation, then BSOD.
Since I ran out of ideas what to try to find out what's wrong or which component is broken, I'm reaching out for help.
What I've tried so far:
- Reinstalling Windows
- Using old RAM, using different RAM slots
- Booting without GPU, using the integrated one
- Resetting BIOS
- And booting Ubuntu from live USB (since that didn't freeze or anything, I'm assuming it's the HDD, but not sure)
Computer Specs (nothing is OC):
- Core i5-4690k
- MOBO MSI Z97 Gaming 3
- GTX 660
- HDD Western Digital Black 1TB
- Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB
- PSU Chieftec GPA-400S8
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