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First time poster, I didn’t build this pc and I’m new to PC repair so any help is appreciated.
I’m using a Radeon r7 370 gpu and an ASRock A88M - G/3.1 mobo.
A few weeks ago I changed apartments and must have jiggled something loose in my pc; the display completely stopped working and my pc wouldn’t stay on for more than a few minutes at a time. I guessed it was a cooling issue and replaced the thermal paste just in case, then dusted and reseated the GPU and suddenly the problem was solved. The whole thing worked fine, temps were low, et cetera.
A few days ago I suddenly started getting bluescreens (a different error code every time, but the ones I saw were IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and MEMORY_MANAGEMENT), lockups (screen locked, no inputs worked, speakers just played a loud, droning tone) and while the temps were normal during regular use, including when the pc locked up, they skyrocketed to 90 C immediately if I ran anything bigger than a browser.
While it was doing this, I made sure my drivers were up to date (there was a network device update) and ran chkdsk (which turned up nothing)
Then, yesterday, the display fails completely and I just get a backlit black screen. The monitor still seems to work, I can flip through display options and it can detect that it’s connected to something, it just doesn’t display. I’ve tried reseating the gpu again (no luck), then double checked all of the cables to ensure they were properly seated (no luck), tried removing the gpu to see if onboard graphics would work (they don’t), and tried removing the GPU and RAM to see if it would go into BIOS (it didn’t.) Also, I don’t think my mobo has an onboard speaker, but I don’t really know what I’m looking for. At the least, I’ve never heard it give a POST beep during normal use, and it didn’t give one under any of the above circumstances.
I’m not really sure what to try next, and I have a sinking feeling that this is going to be expensive to fix. If anyone has any ideas or advice, I’d appreciate it. Thanks!
I’m using a Radeon r7 370 gpu and an ASRock A88M - G/3.1 mobo.
A few weeks ago I changed apartments and must have jiggled something loose in my pc; the display completely stopped working and my pc wouldn’t stay on for more than a few minutes at a time. I guessed it was a cooling issue and replaced the thermal paste just in case, then dusted and reseated the GPU and suddenly the problem was solved. The whole thing worked fine, temps were low, et cetera.
A few days ago I suddenly started getting bluescreens (a different error code every time, but the ones I saw were IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and MEMORY_MANAGEMENT), lockups (screen locked, no inputs worked, speakers just played a loud, droning tone) and while the temps were normal during regular use, including when the pc locked up, they skyrocketed to 90 C immediately if I ran anything bigger than a browser.
While it was doing this, I made sure my drivers were up to date (there was a network device update) and ran chkdsk (which turned up nothing)
Then, yesterday, the display fails completely and I just get a backlit black screen. The monitor still seems to work, I can flip through display options and it can detect that it’s connected to something, it just doesn’t display. I’ve tried reseating the gpu again (no luck), then double checked all of the cables to ensure they were properly seated (no luck), tried removing the gpu to see if onboard graphics would work (they don’t), and tried removing the GPU and RAM to see if it would go into BIOS (it didn’t.) Also, I don’t think my mobo has an onboard speaker, but I don’t really know what I’m looking for. At the least, I’ve never heard it give a POST beep during normal use, and it didn’t give one under any of the above circumstances.
I’m not really sure what to try next, and I have a sinking feeling that this is going to be expensive to fix. If anyone has any ideas or advice, I’d appreciate it. Thanks!
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