My HDD died. Probably.

[Edvinio]

Hello, I know it's time to change my computer because it is 9 years old. I want to spend my last month with it to do some benchmarks and maybe give it away. It was quite a high end once I bought it. It packed these insane specs (2007-2008):

CPU - Amd Athlon x2 6000+ 3Ghz 2Cores
Motherboard - GA-M52L-S3P ATX
Ram - 4X 1GB 800Mhz
Graphics card - Radeon HD 3870
PSU - Codegen 400W
HDD - Some 500GB samsung

Firstly my graphics card died 2 years ago so I bought a pretty much worse than I had - R7 240.

Now last 3-4months my pc started to randomly turn off, funny thing is - it didn't turn off if I was gaming, it would turn off when I was browsing internet or watching youtube.

NOW, this week, my HDD started squeaking louder and louder, even my relatives mentioned that something is going to happen, it felt nothing too bad for me, but few days ago my PC shut down, I turned it on again and I got a message - L Disc read error occurred press ctrl-alt- delete: , and after i tried to restart my PC shut down, and as I was clicking power on button it would start going for like 2 seconds and shut down, pushed the power on button for like 10 times and same thing was happening. 

So I reseated everything, cleaned up, did everything I could, of course used google for help and then I pressed power on again - everything starts running normally but there is no display on screen, HDD doesn't give any noises anymore, at all.

Today I bought SSD and PSU and seated everything correctly - power on - everything goes on great but no screen display.

So now I am lost, everything was pointing towards either PSU (shut downs without warning and no info behind it) or HDD (Awful sounds, probable death), now I changed both of them and yet it is still not working.

I did reseat everything, remove the CMOS battery, put in only 1 stick of ram etc.

Help?

Ps my new build that I'll be building next month, anything I could replace?

CPU - Intel I3 6100
Motherboard - MSI H110MPRO-VD
RAM - 2X8GB HyperX 2133 DDR4 (same price as 1x 8GB)
GPU - MSI GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB 
PSU - Silverstone Strider 500W (Bought)
SSD - Samsung Evo 750 250GB (Bought)

[19_blackie_73]

replace the GTX960 for a rx470/480/GTX1060 what ever fits in your budget because it's performing badly compared to the mentioned cards.

To your old pc: that hdd is dead IMO

Maybe the PSU died and screwed the gpu? maybe try another gpu.

 

[Vode]

Yeah pretty much don't get a GTX 960.

 

Get a R9 280, R9 380 or better RX 470 instead.

[pyrojoe34]

Although an i3 would be fine, I would personally recommend saving up a bit more for an i5, it would make a pretty big difference in almost any task and would be well worth the $60-80 difference. Also, don't bother with a 960 unless you're paying less than $100 for it. There's a nice little bit of GPU competition going on right now with the low/mid range new gen cards so you can get some great performance for cheap.

[Edvinio]

1 hour ago, 19_blackie_73 said:

 

replace the GTX960 for a rx470/480/GTX1060 what ever fits in your budget because it's performing badly compared to the mentioned cards.

To your old pc: that hdd is dead IMO

Maybe the PSU died and screwed the gpu? maybe try another gpu.

 

HDD is dead for sure but it wouldnt prevent monitor showing anything like bios I think, Graphics card? It gives a little spin like it used to do. And as I said I bought PSU and SSD and seated everything. The point about GPU is good one, altho never had problems with it, CPU was getting "PC Clock watchdog timeout" blue screens or something like that, PSU sudden turn offs, HDD squeakiness and GPU nothing.

 

Yes I agree about those new graphic cards. BUT. There is a problem, I live in Europe and getting one is quite a problem. Im talking about getting a normal one for a good price. Right now I cant find Radeon Rx 480 or any other of these new gpus for advertised prises, found Rx480 in a lithuanian shop that offers best prices - 380 Euros... 

 

Was thinking about R9 380 too, but as I had AMD all my life I thought that I would give NVIDIA a go