Dear folks,
Sorry for starting a new thread just to help answer my question but I'm not exactly very hardware savvy so I would appreciate some help from kind souls here.
Problem: I was playing games last night when my com was unresponsive for a few seconds and after which it claimed that it just recovered from a crash. After which the screen went gray but the com was still operational ( the background music was still playing)
So i did a hard reboot and upon reaching the windows login screen there were discoloured lines running across the whole screen. I figured my GPU drivers has crashed since its not the first time it has happened and seems to be quite a common issue with the AMD radeon drivers. So did the next sensible thing and deleted/re-installed the driver.
After my reboot from the driver installation, the whole screen just turned black when I reached the windows login. The com is not even functioning evident from the lack of any fan noise, nor could i turn caps lock on/off. Only thing I could do was reboot in safe mode, uninstall the AMD drivers.
So right now I am running on the on-board graphics and upon doing a little research I suspect that my CPU card is fried and needs replacing. (please correct me if I'm wrong)
My question here is, since my com is reaching the peak of its powers and needs replacing soon anyway, what can I get on the current market that is equivalent to my existing GPU AMD Radeon 7800 HD without breaking the bank? I am using the ASUS P8Z77-M PRO mobo by the way.
Would really appreciate the advise and thanks in advance.
Apologies for the long post just wanted things to be clear.
Sorry for starting a new thread just to help answer my question but I'm not exactly very hardware savvy so I would appreciate some help from kind souls here.
Problem: I was playing games last night when my com was unresponsive for a few seconds and after which it claimed that it just recovered from a crash. After which the screen went gray but the com was still operational ( the background music was still playing)
So i did a hard reboot and upon reaching the windows login screen there were discoloured lines running across the whole screen. I figured my GPU drivers has crashed since its not the first time it has happened and seems to be quite a common issue with the AMD radeon drivers. So did the next sensible thing and deleted/re-installed the driver.
After my reboot from the driver installation, the whole screen just turned black when I reached the windows login. The com is not even functioning evident from the lack of any fan noise, nor could i turn caps lock on/off. Only thing I could do was reboot in safe mode, uninstall the AMD drivers.
So right now I am running on the on-board graphics and upon doing a little research I suspect that my CPU card is fried and needs replacing. (please correct me if I'm wrong)
My question here is, since my com is reaching the peak of its powers and needs replacing soon anyway, what can I get on the current market that is equivalent to my existing GPU AMD Radeon 7800 HD without breaking the bank? I am using the ASUS P8Z77-M PRO mobo by the way.
Would really appreciate the advise and thanks in advance.
Apologies for the long post just wanted things to be clear.
jk