PC Keeps Crashing

Karnee

Karnee

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Hey guys, tell me if this is the wrong place, but I have an issue with my PC crashing.

A while back I had to replace my HDD with a new SSD and HDD. Before that a few months ago I had to buy a new Graphics Card and RAM Cards. Just giving you guys a timeline. Since the new HDD things haven't been working as planned. I say the new HDD but I'm not exactly sure when this started happening all I can tell you is that since then it has happened more often.

My PC is crashing, but in a weird way. It starts with the screen changing colour. The whole screen changes a colour instantly and stays that way. The only way to stop it is to reboot the PC. That worked fine until recently. Not it is happening every day, it's stopped changing colour and now it just goes dark. I know the PC is crashing as changing to HDMI or DMI shows the same thing. The Graphics card is months old. I can't believe that is causing this.

What do you guys think? I could really do with some advice on this. I am personally under the belief that this is due to my motherboard. It's about 7 years old and the oldest thing left on my PC I think.
 
So is it crashing, or just making your monitor go funny? Have you tried a different monitor? My old 24" developed a weird 2 inch thick line of...pink shading, very weird, I thought it was the graphics, but it was just the monitor in the end! So try the monitor if its only the colour that is the issue
 
Karnee said:
Hey guys, tell me if this is the wrong place, but I have an issue with my PC crashing.

A while back I had to replace my HDD with a new SSD and HDD. Before that a few months ago I had to buy a new Graphics Card and RAM Cards. Just giving you guys a timeline. Since the new HDD things haven't been working as planned. I say the new HDD but I'm not exactly sure when this started happening all I can tell you is that since then it has happened more often.

My PC is crashing, but in a weird way. It starts with the screen changing colour. The whole screen changes a colour instantly and stays that way. The only way to stop it is to reboot the PC. That worked fine until recently. Not it is happening every day, it's stopped changing colour and now it just goes dark. I know the PC is crashing as changing to HDMI or DMI shows the same thing. The Graphics card is months old. I can't believe that is causing this.

What do you guys think? I could really do with some advice on this. I am personally under the belief that this is due to my motherboard. It's about 7 years old and the oldest thing left on my PC I think.
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it could be motherboard as from what you have written it seems like the oldest part there apart from the CPU.

but yeah I would try the 1 part at a time diagnostic technique. just plug in 1 part at a time and turn it on and monitor it. run memtest on that memory.

it sounds like the GPU might be running on a faulty PCI lane/slot try changing that it might help.
 
Idleman said:
Can you list your full system spec?
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HDDs:
SSD-OCZ-AGILLITY3 -225GB.
HDD-Seagate Seagate Barracuda -2TB

GPU:
MSI HD 7850 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express

Processor:
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8400 3.00GHZ.

RAM:
2x2GB Crossair XMS2

Motherboard:
Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3
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This is all I can find from the Device Manager. The PC is very old and I can't find all the documentation. I can't find what model the PSU is either. If anyone knows how to find out that info I would appreciate it.

colax said:
Most likely the graphics card. Try a different monitor to rule that out.

When you mean the whole screen changes colour, do you mean like this http://img.techpowerup.org/080401/DSCN2519a.jpg, or as in a solid colour and nothing else?

Can you borrow a friends graphics card for a few hours to test that?
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It's a solid colour. One thing to note is that since posting this I have been using my HDMI cable and it has yet to crash. EDIT: It has crashed and multiple times since this post. It happens a lot more when I am playing games it seems.

I'll see what I can do about the graphics card.
 
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Any luck switching back to your old graphics card?

You said this one was new so I'm guessing you're like most of us and have kept the old one in a safe place "just in case" (which 90% of the time ends up rusting in the attic instead of being used to take a massive chunk of the price for the next wondrous card).
 
This definetely sounds like a graphics card problem, due to colour flashing on the screen, have you tried taking the GPU out and plugging your cable into your mobo thatd be your next bet!
 
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