Hey all,
Right basicly Iv had some issues with my pc for some time, and now it's all come to a head, so I will explain and I would love some ideas.
Previously: when i booted the machine it would sometimes stall on the screen before windows loads, i would have to restart the pc 3 times and then it would boot windows, this only happened sometimes, not every time. The pc would also randomly restart from time to time, not always with a bsod, only sometimes, i also got a ton of error messages after a while on any graphic intencive games.
So, I replaced my GFX card yesterday, I took a guess that because i was getting gfx errors it might be the card, so I bought a Radion HD3850, installed it and it all seemed to be a bit weird, it worked but if i tabbed out of one window to another i got about 0.1 fps for 5 seconds or so, then it was ok... however after a few reboots my screen would randomly go blank after a few mins of the pc booting and i would have to restart again before i could see anything; now however, if i reboot or boot it won't load windows. I have tried to replace the RAM, i have 2 sticks and i tried one at a time and it didnt seem to help, the GFX card is new but would the machine even boot to that phase if it was a mobo fault? so CPU?
All In all I'm a skint student who doesnt have much random hardware lying around to try replacing bit by bit each component, I'm really a bit stuck and I have a real need to make this work.
If people think mobo could you please recoment me a good AMD 939 pin, pci-e mobo thats fairly cheap! tbh i just want me pc to work, built it from scratch a while back and i would just love to not have the hassle. Thx a lot for reading, please help!
- Loz
Right basicly Iv had some issues with my pc for some time, and now it's all come to a head, so I will explain and I would love some ideas.
Previously: when i booted the machine it would sometimes stall on the screen before windows loads, i would have to restart the pc 3 times and then it would boot windows, this only happened sometimes, not every time. The pc would also randomly restart from time to time, not always with a bsod, only sometimes, i also got a ton of error messages after a while on any graphic intencive games.
So, I replaced my GFX card yesterday, I took a guess that because i was getting gfx errors it might be the card, so I bought a Radion HD3850, installed it and it all seemed to be a bit weird, it worked but if i tabbed out of one window to another i got about 0.1 fps for 5 seconds or so, then it was ok... however after a few reboots my screen would randomly go blank after a few mins of the pc booting and i would have to restart again before i could see anything; now however, if i reboot or boot it won't load windows. I have tried to replace the RAM, i have 2 sticks and i tried one at a time and it didnt seem to help, the GFX card is new but would the machine even boot to that phase if it was a mobo fault? so CPU?
All In all I'm a skint student who doesnt have much random hardware lying around to try replacing bit by bit each component, I'm really a bit stuck and I have a real need to make this work.
If people think mobo could you please recoment me a good AMD 939 pin, pci-e mobo thats fairly cheap! tbh i just want me pc to work, built it from scratch a while back and i would just love to not have the hassle. Thx a lot for reading, please help!
- Loz
