Hello everyone,
I ran into a big problem recently.
Yesterday I decided to clean up my PC case from all the dust that settled there for quite some time. And I might have screwed something up... Let's go step-by-step:
1. I turned off my PC, brought it to a well-ventilated place and opened the case. Easy enough.
2. I used cleaning cloth to wipe the dust out of the fans of my GPU CPU and PSU.
NOTE: I did not remove any components, 'cause I was pretty paranoid I might screw something up as my knowledge about the innards of a PC is not excellent.
4. I used compressed air can to blow the dust from everywhere I could see any.
NOTE: I did touch some components with my hand (I'm not sure if it's anything good or bad as I found very little information about physical contact with human skin and computer components).
5. Final checks and everything seems to be fine.
6. Closed the case and ran the PC.
Now this is where it started getting messy.
Everything seemed to work fine. So I launched Skyrim to see if there are any problems with a GPU. I believe there was. After roaming around the forest for 1-2 minutes the screen started glitching and stuttering until eventually it got completely cover by light blue coloured stripes and the game crashed. The desktop started glithing too so I restarted the computer in confusion. After restating I ran Skyrim again and as soon as the screen started glitching I turned it off. The desktop seemed fine. I watched some youtube videos, it was smooth as always. I tried opening paint 3D just to see if this is GPU that's messing up. And yeah, after playing around for a bit Paint 3D crashed as well.
Today I turned on my PC and though I would start a game with lower requirements, so I started Half Life 2. But before that I ran GPU-Z to see some details. Everyhing seemed nice, but the GPU was at about 50 degrees while idle. Seemed quite much . Back to the game: after playing for 5 mins the screen scrashed. PC turned off and everytime I try to launch it - same thing happens. ASUS logo, Windows logo with loading circles and then blank. Nothing but black screen.
I'm stumped... I'm not very financially stable at the moment and this PC was the best thing I had to this day. Replacing the GPU would cost me hundreds so I just want to figure out if there's anything that can be done.
System specs were (I don't really remember well):
CPU: Intel core i7
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 200 series
RAM: 8GB
64-bit operating system
Windows 10 OS
Final moments:
https://ibb.co/hon7v6
https://ibb.co/fp7khm
Thanks in advance...
I ran into a big problem recently.
Yesterday I decided to clean up my PC case from all the dust that settled there for quite some time. And I might have screwed something up... Let's go step-by-step:
1. I turned off my PC, brought it to a well-ventilated place and opened the case. Easy enough.
2. I used cleaning cloth to wipe the dust out of the fans of my GPU CPU and PSU.
NOTE: I did not remove any components, 'cause I was pretty paranoid I might screw something up as my knowledge about the innards of a PC is not excellent.
4. I used compressed air can to blow the dust from everywhere I could see any.
NOTE: I did touch some components with my hand (I'm not sure if it's anything good or bad as I found very little information about physical contact with human skin and computer components).
5. Final checks and everything seems to be fine.
6. Closed the case and ran the PC.
Now this is where it started getting messy.
Everything seemed to work fine. So I launched Skyrim to see if there are any problems with a GPU. I believe there was. After roaming around the forest for 1-2 minutes the screen started glitching and stuttering until eventually it got completely cover by light blue coloured stripes and the game crashed. The desktop started glithing too so I restarted the computer in confusion. After restating I ran Skyrim again and as soon as the screen started glitching I turned it off. The desktop seemed fine. I watched some youtube videos, it was smooth as always. I tried opening paint 3D just to see if this is GPU that's messing up. And yeah, after playing around for a bit Paint 3D crashed as well.
Today I turned on my PC and though I would start a game with lower requirements, so I started Half Life 2. But before that I ran GPU-Z to see some details. Everyhing seemed nice, but the GPU was at about 50 degrees while idle. Seemed quite much . Back to the game: after playing for 5 mins the screen scrashed. PC turned off and everytime I try to launch it - same thing happens. ASUS logo, Windows logo with loading circles and then blank. Nothing but black screen.
I'm stumped... I'm not very financially stable at the moment and this PC was the best thing I had to this day. Replacing the GPU would cost me hundreds so I just want to figure out if there's anything that can be done.
System specs were (I don't really remember well):
CPU: Intel core i7
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 200 series
RAM: 8GB
64-bit operating system
Windows 10 OS
Final moments:
https://ibb.co/hon7v6
https://ibb.co/fp7khm
Thanks in advance...