Any ideas / help please

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Computer crashed last night.

At first blacks of colour started appearing over the Windows screen, but I could Alt Tab back into the game and play as normal.

Decided to turn on and off, now it just does the following, before going to a black screen with a block of changing colour.

Monitor splash screen.
Chillblast splash screen.
Ethernet boot agent message.
Windows blue window with spinning dots.
Then dead.

The curser still moves.

Running a gtx780 and i2500k no overclocking and Windows 10.

Thinking of digging out old graphics card to see if that's the problem.

Any other suggestions.

Thanks
 
Hi.

Im not the best at things like this but had my pc die on me a little while back, so I'll try help where I can.
Its a case of narrowing down the components one by one.

Firstly I'd check all your connections to your mobo, make sure nothing has popped out etc. Then I would try running the pc with just 1 stick of ram to see if that makes it boot up.
If no luck then I'd try removing the gpu, and running off on board graphics to see if this the gpu.

That's probably the first /easiest things to try... Give them a go at first and see how you get on.
 
Thanks for the replays guys.

Swapped my trusty old 560ti in and everything was back to normal.

So looks like the 780 had died (only 18 months old.)

Was going to wait until the new pascal cards came out before upgrade, just my luck.

As I only game at 1080p I guess a 970 should be fine, any suggestions?

Thanks
 
Wait for pascal ,
seems a waste of money to buy something now , when the newer cards will be out shortly ( a month or two ) .
unless you game a lot and can't wait , as for the 970 i have g1 gaming from gigabyte , but others will recommend the MSI card , both are bloody cards , as well as the evga's too .
just make sure your case fits a larger card as the G1 is a good 12inch long
 
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I'd imagine it's still in warranty so no need to buy a new one just yet.

Rarely see a GPU with less than 2 years warranty.
 

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