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I think I'm having problems with my GPU adn RAM

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Fredless12

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A little backstory: For the past two days I've had problems with my PC, it black-screened whenever I tried to boot it up. I tried re-installing windows but it crashed mid-way. After doing that two times I gave up. The next day (which is today) I tried booting up again, and somehow the installation was almost done... I just need to fill out which language I wanted, timezone etc. But then it crashed again and I took to a PC discord-server, they told me to use the motherboard output since that didn't work I tried checking my ram.

So, I had my HDMI plugged into my motherboard and that didn't work. I tried removing one of my ram-sticks, that didn't work, I put it back in and tried the other one: that worked. After downloading things I asked one of my friends what's going on with my Graphics card, and he said restart and stop using the motherboard output, and so I did. After restarting my pc my graphics card still didn't work and was listed as "N/A" I tried download NVIDIA where my pc black-screened again. Which is where I am now, back to the motherboard output and i can't play any games. I feel like it's my graphics card and my ram making my PC run like ****. What do you guys think?
 
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vger said:
Hello

Do you have an on board graphic's? If so take out the gpu card and see if it will boot and stay running..
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I don't think i have that. I'm surprisingly bad with computers. First of all, I don't even know what an "on board graphic's" are and secondly I don't know if i want to take out of my graphics card. I feel like I'm gonna destroying something.
I know I'm making your life harder, by being a noob - so I apologize
 
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Sorry to hear about your computer problems Fredless12 but as you are so unsure as to what hardware your computer has for safety's sake I strongly suggest that you get the computer checked by someone that is confident in what they are doing, at the end of the day damaging your hardware is secondary to you possibly being harmed by electrocution.
 
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phillpower2 said:
Sorry to hear about your computer problems Fredless12 but as you are so unsure as to what hardware your computer has for safety's sake I strongly suggest that you get the computer checked by someone that is confident in what they are doing, at the end of the day damaging your hardware is secondary to you possibly being harmed by electrocution.
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Yea I agree, I have a mate coming over tomorrow.
I'm very inpatient, so I'm having a hard time dealing with not being on my PC for 4-5 days, so I did everything in my way to try to fix it without getting my hands dirty but that doesn't look like the case.
 
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The thing is with computers it is not just the live mains electricity that you need to worry about there is also residual charge that stays in the capacitors on the MB and inside of the PSU, the charge in the caps on the MB can be enough to wipe out your hardware but the charge in a PSU can give you a shock and wipe out your hardware.
 
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