Is my hardware dead?! :(

[mememaster69]

I'm sorry for the poor image quality but i can try to explain what happened.

 

Boot time was taking alot longer than usual and suddenly these dots started appearing from the top of the screen and crawling their way down (about 2-3cm)

My initial reaction was "OH SHIT!?" and reached for the reset button on my PC and also managed to record a second of it on snapchat.

Ever since then I've had strange complete lock-ups and weird stutters/freezes in games such as League of legends and PUBG.

I'm sadly guessing this damage is pretty permanent but I'm really curious on what parts i will be needing to replace for my stuttering and the random lock-ups to stop.

 

Any ideas on what might be a cause or what will fix it is greatly appretiated.

 

SPECS:

asus 970 pro gaming/aura

fx 8350

gtx 970

600w psu corsair

2x4gig low profile vengence ram

2x4gig high profile vengence ram

ram sticks were bought separately and techstore i bought it from said low and high profile rams from this series are esscentially the same and should work

Again, any ideas or any input at all is really helpfull!

thanks <3

 

[kelvinhall05]

Clear CMOS. If that doesn't work, reinstall Windows. If that doesn't work, I bet it's hardware damage.

[mememaster69]

Just now, kelvinhall05 said:

Clear CMOS. If that doesn't work, reinstall Windows. If that doesn't work, I bet it's hardware damage.

mmh... I've cleared CMOS, reset all the settings in bios aswell as installed all new bios and drivers. Can't reinstall windows as i currently don't have enough storage to save my important files during the reinstallation

[HOOTSMON]

 

3 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Clear CMOS. If that doesn't work, reinstall Windows. If that doesn't work, I bet it's hardware damage.

^This

 

You could also take out your GPU and use on board graphics just to see if its the GPU, but yeah clear that CMOS. Think you may have to take out the CR2032 battery on the mobo to do this in your case, could be wrong.

[kelvinhall05]

3 minutes ago, mememaster69 said:

mmh... I've cleared CMOS, reset all the settings in bios aswell as installed all new bios and drivers. Can't reinstall windows as i currently don't have enough storage to save my important files during the reinstallation

What kind of stuff do you have? You could always put stuff that doesn't fit on some cloud storage using a free trial.

[mememaster69]

Just now, kelvinhall05 said:

What kind of stuff do you have? You could always put stuff that doesn't fit on some cloud storage using a free trial.

I guess you are right, But I'ts mostly that i have a shit ton of extensions, plug-ins and project files for programming environments that are customized to my liking that im guessing will be wiped after a clean install

[kelvinhall05]

9 minutes ago, mememaster69 said:

I guess you are right, But I'ts mostly that i have a shit ton of extensions, plug-ins and project files for programming environments that are customized to my liking that im guessing will be wiped after a clean install

Ah, I see. If you do find some way to be able to reinstall Windows, do that. I think that's your best bet.

[LienusLateTips]

12 minutes ago, HOOTSMON said:

 

^This

 

You could also take out your GPU and use on board graphics just to see if its the GPU, but yeah clear that CMOS. Think you may have to take out the CR2032 battery on the mobo to do this in your case, could be wrong.

There's no on board graphics on the CPU nor the motherboard

[mememaster69]

3 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Ah, I see. If you do find some way to be able to reinstall Windows, do that. I think that's your best bet.

I think im gonna commit to a complete reinstallation of windows. do you have any suggestions on what cloud based service i can use to store my files on meanwhile?

 

[kelvinhall05]

4 minutes ago, mememaster69 said:

I think im gonna commit to a complete reinstallation of windows. do you have any suggestions on what cloud based service i can use to store my files on meanwhile?

 

Google Drive? I personally hate cloud storage solutions, so I have no idea what's good and what isn't LOL.

Maybe just a quick Google search can find you a top 5 or something, IDK.

[mememaster69]

5 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Google Drive? I personally hate cloud storage solutions, so I have no idea what's good and what isn't LOL.

Maybe just a quick Google search can find you a top 5 or something, IDK.

yeah im using google drive, and ill just have to go through the painstaking process of reinstalling every component for the other softwares.

[mememaster69]

But does anyone have a clue on what those purple/yellow pixels that was sprawling on my screen ever where?!

[HOOTSMON]

4 minutes ago, mememaster69 said:

But does anyone have a clue on what those purple/yellow pixels that was sprawling on my screen ever where?!

I think its GPU related. 

 

Are you sure you dont have on board graphic? TBH i thought all mobo's did lol. Just try taking the GPU out and turning on the PC maybe.

[kelvinhall05]

9 minutes ago, mememaster69 said:

But does anyone have a clue on what those purple/yellow pixels that was sprawling on my screen ever where?!

GPU related, but I have no idea why it would be on, from what I could tell, the BIOS splash screen.

[mememaster69]

no, the thing is that my pc runs fine appart from the sudden ingame stutters and random stuff like the boot issue and lockups

1 minute ago, HOOTSMON said:

I think its GPU related. 

 

Are you sure you dont have on board graphic? TBH i thought all mobo's did lol. Just try taking the GPU out and turning on the PC maybe.

 

[mememaster69]

yes its the "press Del of F2 to open bios"- screen

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

GPU related, but I have no idea why it would be on, from what I could tell, the BIOS splash screen.

[HOOTSMON]

1 minute ago, mememaster69 said:

yes its the "press Del of F2 to open bios"- screen

Have you checked your temps?

[SupaKomputa]

- failing gpu

- bad hdmi / dvi cables

- bad monitor.

 

have you tried connecting to another monitor?

Before installing windows, make sure its not a hardware failure.

If its a hardware failure then you can save much time installing windows and all programs and just replace the failing hardware.

Your problem seems to be related to display, so in device manager, uninstall all gpu drivers, reboot and install the latest driver from nvidia website.

If you have a spare gpu, swap it first and examine.

[LienusLateTips]

Do you have some sort of spare GPU? If not, you can get them for about $20.

[mememaster69]

I have an amd hd 6950 xfx laying around somewhere...

[SupaKomputa]

yes swap it, and play it around for a while.

[mememaster69]

^These are my current temps and stuff, im currently just moving files to google drive and usb stick...

[mememaster69]

Anyone have a clue on why my max core clocks on the cpu are all different??

 

[SupaKomputa]

The cpu are fine, no need to worry about it.

Your main problem is with your gpu.

Is not a catastrophic damage, i would save time stop moving files to gdrive and focus on the gpu first. 

If the gpu is damaged, it can be fixed safely with a gpu swap.

[mememaster69]

would warranty still be a thing in this case?

3 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

The cpu are fine, no need to worry about it.

Your main problem is with your gpu.

Is not a catastrophic damage, i would save time stop moving files to gdrive and focus on the gpu first. 

If the gpu is damaged, it can be fixed safely with a gpu swap.