troubleshoot Whats wrong with my PC?

[Asmodeus336]

These are my current specs:
GTX 1660 Super, Ryzen 5 3400G, 2x 8 gb ripjaw V 3200mhz, gigabyte A320-S2H, 128 crucial ssd, seagate barracuda 2tb. I also probably have a grey market Windows 10 Pro key if that matters. 

 

For the past couple weeks I've been having issues with my pc crashing during games. For the record I bought it off OfferUp. This all happened abruptly when I installed my 2tb hard drive. At the time I had a GTX 1060 6gb founders edition. I had to take it out because I couldn't reach the sata ports with it in. My first concern was that when I uninstalled it, I didn't notice the latch that I had to unlatch so I pulled on it for a bit until I realized it was there. 

 

When I plugged the sata port in, I couldn't see where the slot was for my gpu so I kinda fidgeted for a little bit. Then it went in. Powered it up, after some time playing the game crashed. Played again, more crashes. Over time I got blue screens which gave me the error about the gpu drivers. This was further backed up when I played Overwatch windowed while I was looking at task manager and got a driver crash error. DDU'd the drivers, issues persisted. Thought it was the GPU being broke so I got rid of it and bought a 1660 Super. Issues continued so it wasn't the gpu itself. DDU'd for sanity check, issues continued.

 

Today I reinstalled windows assuming it was a windows drivers issue. Guess what? Still continued.

 

These are my hypothesis:
1) Somethings wrong with my CPU (not that confident in this)
2) When I first uninstalled my gpu I may have damaged the PCI slot the gpu is in and causing these issues
3) Something may be wrong with the boot ssd (also doubtful)

 

What do you guys think?
 

[AndrewZScorpion]

Try running the GPU in a different PCIe slot.

[Asmodeus336]

2 minutes ago, AndrewZScorpion said:

Try running the GPU in a different PCIe slot.

Its the only PCIe slot thats big enough for a GPU

[AndrewZScorpion]

5 minutes ago, WitheredWing1313 said:

Its the only PCIe slot thats big enough for a GPU

Sorry, I was looking at the wrong board. Try asking a friend?