Freezing coloured screens now progressed to quick black screen

Lee Monk

Lee Monk

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Hi all,

With the help of a number of forum goers here I built my new PC over the Christmas break.

I gave, what is my very old PC, to my Son. So far so good. He is playing a combination of games...... all of which he has played before on the same PC when it was mine when I was at work etc.

However over the last few days he was getting an ever increasing number of freezing screens. These were mainly in Valorant (on low settings) and then went on to far less demanding games such as Terrarria (I think it's this game). The pace at which these freeze screens came increased to culminate in black screen within seconds on turning on the machine.

This morning I managed to get into the BIOS (no idea why I did this) but then BS'd within a few seconds. On BS the caps lock and number lock light doesn't switch.

It's an old PC (very old - about 8-10 years) but was working well and was working on the same games all over the Christmas break. My Son assures me he has not messed around with anything and hasn't tried to overclock the machine.

Upon turning on the machine it WILL display the windows logo and various other loading elements but then crashes again.

This morning I had these images. So we know it's working to a certain degree.






This is a post from a long time ago about the machine: LINK

Thoughts on what can be done? Annoying, It's his birthday weekend and he is hosting 5 other friends and, naturally, gaming was supposed to be the highlight of the day. He can use my machine for this (gulp) but ideally we needed a spare for him.

Thanks in advance
 
So it is an i5 3570k with HD 5800 ?

First try to boot with just one stick of ram.

If that does not help then I would get your new psu and gpu and plug them into the old pc and try to boot with those. If the old psu is upto task of running the newer gpu then try that first, is easier and quicker to just change gpu.

If you still have same issue once the new psu and gpu are in use then the core system components are faulty. If you have multiple ssd/hdd connected then disconnect all superfluos ones and try to boot with just the window ssd/hdd.

This is most likely a mobo fault and not much you can do about that. Is an old system and components do not last forever
 
Thanks guys.

There are a lot of drives in there. So I'll take those out.

In the end the only thing that got upgraded was the power.

How do I ensure ANY/ALL Overclocking is set to default?
My son downloaded MSI Afterburner. Is that something I can use? or is it done from the BIOS?

Oddly, he started the PC about an hour ago and it turned on. We took some data off of it and then just turned it off again until we're ready to tacjkle it again.
 
Lee Monk said:
Thanks guys.

There are a lot of drives in there. So I'll take those out.

In the end the only thing that got upgraded was the power.

How do I ensure ANY/ALL Overclocking is set to default?
My son downloaded MSI Afterburner. Is that something I can use? or is it done from the BIOS?

Oddly, he started the PC about an hour ago and it turned on. We took some data off of it and then just turned it off again until we're ready to tacjkle it again.
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In the bios there will be an option to load default settings then you will have to select boot device also save and exit.

Other option is to clear the cmos on the motherboard there a jumper pin tgat need to bed set for 15 seconds while removing the bios battery and power plug. Put every thing back as is then boot back to bios and select boot device and set any other lije time and date..

Would try the windows repair first then default bios next , clearing cmos last.

Motherboard manual will be handy.
 
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Just an update on this incase it makes a difference anywhere.

The PC worked long enough to create a W10 Media installation. I removed all of the old HD/SSD's and put in a new unused one.

First powerup took me to the BIOS however it quickly BS'd from there. Now it BS's almost instantly upon powering up.

Does this tell me/you anything?

There is currently no operating system as I couldn't even change the bootable disk.
 
Pulseammo said:
Did you clear CMOS already to rule out anything being badly configured in the BIOS?
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Hi,

No. Not done this yet. General speak like this scares the crap out of me. But I just read a little on how to do this.

I don't have a manual so I'll just opt for the batter method.

Once I do this, will the BIOS sort itself out? There isn't anything else I need to do in advance of removing the batter?

Thanks
 
Lee Monk said:
Hi,

No. Not done this yet. General speak like this scares the crap out of me. But I just read a little on how to do this.

I don't have a manual so I'll just opt for the batter method.

Once I do this, will the BIOS sort itself out? There isn't anything else I need to do in advance of removing the batter?

Thanks
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If you pop the battery out for a couple of minutes then it should have the same effect as using a clear cmos jumper or button (some motherboards have them but it tends to be higher end ones).

It will put your BIOS back to factory defaults which should be generally more compatible and allow the system to boot.

You may need to change your boot device order in the BIOS settings (i.e. selecting the hard drive where windows is installed, if it is still installed).
 
Hey all,

Thanks for your help on this.

We've established that it was the GPU. I didn't think the mobo had an on board GPU but it did. Found an old cable and it all worked.

We re-tried the GPU in various slots but it works for about 60 seconds and then blackscreens. Is this anyway recoverable? If it turns on then I guess it kinda works ???

I've brought back to life an old thread of mine where I'm asking for replacement options on the GPU. I had one before but it didnt actually fit the mobo/case. It wasn't to long, just wouldn't fit in the slot.

Thanks again.
 
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