I’m new to pc gaming and for over 3-4 months now I have been completely powering down my computer not realizing that is was basically frying it. Regardless I have asked all my friends as to what they think is the source of the problem and I have heard that it is either the graphics card, motherboard, or hard drive. I’m looking to figure out once and for all what the issued component is so I can fix it or replace it. Thank you!
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Originally posted by vgerHello
What do you mean exactly when you say you are powering the pc down? Have you been having issues with heat? Please provide us with your pc spec’s.
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Originally posted by jmarketHi there Caleb
I’m afraid I don’t understand your issue. What exactly is going on?Comment
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Originally posted by Caleb949Rather than turning my pc off like most normal people, allowing it to shut down properly, I have been force closing it,
Originally posted by Caleb949Now it’s apparent that this abrupt shut down must have taken its toll over time and I think it has basically fried my hard drive or graphics card
Whilst we wait for someone to assist can you please supply us a Speccy report?
Please go HERE and download the portable version of Speccy. Save it to somewhere you can find, locate the file and as it comes as a Zip file use your favorite unzip application to decompress it. Open the newly created folder and double left click Speccy.exe if you have a 32 bit system or Speccy64.exe if yours is 64bit. If you are not sure what your system is click HERE.
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Speccy will open and after a short wait will display a summary of your system specs.
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[li]Click on the file menu.[/li][li]Then click Publish snapshot.[/li][/ol]
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A dialogue box will ask you to confirm, select yes.
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Another dialogue box will open
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[li]Click Copy to Clipboard.[/li][li]Then click Close.[/li][/ol]
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Now that your link has been copied please paste it into your next post. It should look something like the example below
BTW: once you have finished with speccy and no longer want it removing it is easy because it is a portable app with no install. Simply delete the downloaded file and folder you created when you decompressed it. Gone:thumbsup:Comment
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yep, what jmarket said, why do you think things are fried?
what errors are you getting? what’s not working?
you may have lost unsaved data, or corrupted an open program when it was forced shut.
run a sfc /scannow and a chkdsk c: /r from an elevated command prompt.
worst case, you may have to do a repair install of Windows and maybe whatever app you are having issues with.Comment
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Originally posted by Bruceyep, what @jmarket said, why do you think things are fried?
what errors are you getting? what’s not working?
you may have lost unsaved data, or corrupted an open program when it was forced shut.
run a sfc /scannow and a chkdsk c: /r from an elevated command prompt.
worst case, you may have to do a repair install of Windows and maybe whatever app you are having issues with.Comment
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Originally posted by Caleb949but the display was not working and hasn’t worked ever since
Have you got another monitor you can test with?
And if that does not fix the issue, to diagnose this can you take out your graphics card from your PC and then connect your monitor cable to the onboard (motherboard) graphics port and see if you can get video when you reboot?Comment
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