Got A New GPU and This Happened
Alright bros heres a little background info before the problem started. A couple of days ago i had replaced my gpu and ram. The gpu was upgraded from Powercolor 7770 to Sapphire dual-x R9 280 while the ram was replaced with the exact same one (Gskill 1600mhz 8gb). Currently my specs are
i5-3470 & Asrock B75M-DGS
G.skill 1600mhz 8gb
HP DVD RW
Hitachi 500gb
Sapphire dual-x R9 280
FSP Raider 550w
Aside from the newly replaced gpu and ram the other parts just turned 2 this year. Oh and I'm using windows 7.
Now here comes the problem. A day after i replaced the parts, i was playing dota 2 when suddenly my computer froze with the display still on and producing a buzzing sound. Keyboard and mouse were completely unresponsive and i had to force shut down my computer. I managed to turn it on again thinking it was nothing but this time is froze again at the game's loading screen.
After force restarting it AGAIN, i did not enter any games or programmes this time and downloaded CCleaner to cleanup my computer as i read on some forum that it may help. I then restarted my computer properly this time round, HOWEVER it failed to even reach the login page before freezing again. Subsequent attempts to restart my computer produced the same results, with the computer freezing at various timings. Sometimes it lasted all the way past the login screen before freezing shortly, other times it froze a few seconds after bootup.
I have tried to enter Safe Mode but it even freezes there as well, leading me to suspect that its a hardware problem. Interesting thing to note is that the longer i leave my computer off, the longer time it takes to freeze up and if i constantly try to boot my computer it freezes much faster each time.
Im really at my wits end haha, can't believe my comp is dying on me so quickly after i bought it new parts!!
(( Any help would be appreciated guys and thanks so much for reading through this long post!!
Alright bros heres a little background info before the problem started. A couple of days ago i had replaced my gpu and ram. The gpu was upgraded from Powercolor 7770 to Sapphire dual-x R9 280 while the ram was replaced with the exact same one (Gskill 1600mhz 8gb). Currently my specs are
i5-3470 & Asrock B75M-DGS
G.skill 1600mhz 8gb
HP DVD RW
Hitachi 500gb
Sapphire dual-x R9 280
FSP Raider 550w
Aside from the newly replaced gpu and ram the other parts just turned 2 this year. Oh and I'm using windows 7.
Now here comes the problem. A day after i replaced the parts, i was playing dota 2 when suddenly my computer froze with the display still on and producing a buzzing sound. Keyboard and mouse were completely unresponsive and i had to force shut down my computer. I managed to turn it on again thinking it was nothing but this time is froze again at the game's loading screen.
After force restarting it AGAIN, i did not enter any games or programmes this time and downloaded CCleaner to cleanup my computer as i read on some forum that it may help. I then restarted my computer properly this time round, HOWEVER it failed to even reach the login page before freezing again. Subsequent attempts to restart my computer produced the same results, with the computer freezing at various timings. Sometimes it lasted all the way past the login screen before freezing shortly, other times it froze a few seconds after bootup.
I have tried to enter Safe Mode but it even freezes there as well, leading me to suspect that its a hardware problem. Interesting thing to note is that the longer i leave my computer off, the longer time it takes to freeze up and if i constantly try to boot my computer it freezes much faster each time.
Im really at my wits end haha, can't believe my comp is dying on me so quickly after i bought it new parts!!
(( Any help would be appreciated guys and thanks so much for reading through this long post!!
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