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my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« on: June 11, 2017, 02:32:10 AM »
So i was on youtube on one monitor and just booting up a game on the second when all of a sudden my pc froze and had a ton of screen tears appeared over both screens since this has happened before i knew what to do just turn it off and back on again but this time after the windows symbol on boot up the screen just went black i waited for half a hour then realized it would not work tried a few more times still nothing so i go online on my phone and look everywhere on how to fix it and found a video then i followed all the steps and nothing didn't work but i found out about safe mode from that video and have been using it to temporarily use my pc but not only did it not boot but when i started safe mode i noticed 2 weird colored bars down my screen that change color depending on whats behind then gray becomes green or purple and such at this point i realized this isn't something small something is going really wrong so i started searching thought could it be my cpu? no it can't be surely if that was working i would not be able to use my pc at all maybe my monitor switched monitor still got screen glitch can't be hard drive i can still access files so at this point im starting to think its my graphics card it may not be completely broken but maybe its dying maybe thats why i have the screen glitch and maybe that's why my pc wont boot so i take out my gpu clean it put it back in try again still have the same problems so what im asking is does anyone know what the *censored* is going on?! i need to know exactly what is wrong so i can fix it, if it's not the graphics card i don't wanna buy a new one and find out i was wrong and be out £300 so pls someone help

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2017, 06:33:38 AM »
Great punctuation...your post is impossible to read.

It's likely the vid card.
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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2017, 08:04:40 AM »
If the mobo has onboard graphics try plugging the monitor in that port.

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2017, 08:09:37 AM »
And you don't have to spend a dime to test if it's the card or not...borrow a known good card and swap it in there...
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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2017, 08:11:27 AM »
can't be hard drive i can still access files
How do you know this exactly?

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2017, 08:14:22 AM »
And you don't have to spend a dime to test if it's the card or not...borrow a known good card and swap it in there...

and where would i get this card to "borrow"

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2017, 08:15:07 AM »
How do you know this exactly?

as i said before i can use my pc in safe mode and in that i can still use my hard drive

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2017, 08:15:41 AM »
Great punctuation...your post is impossible to read.

It's likely the vid card.

and sorry dude i did post this at 2 in the morning

if i could still modify i would fix it

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2017, 08:18:07 AM »
If the mobo has onboard graphics try plugging the monitor in that port.

sadly i don't have that port on my motherboard

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2017, 08:24:04 AM »
and where would i get this card to "borrow"

If you can't be creative enough to help yourself then there's nothing we can do...
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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2017, 08:27:47 AM »
If you can't be creative enough to help yourself then there's nothing we can do...

m8 its not about being creative i live in a area where there is barely anyone around and the few that are our old and have no clue what a gpu is so don't go getting all high and mighty saying if you don't help yourself there is no point

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2017, 08:29:55 AM »
i live in a area where there is barley
A farming district?

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2017, 08:31:55 AM »
A farming district?

lol pretty much i live in cornwall moved here from london

(look im still half asleep ok i have been up all night sorting this out then along comes this dickhead who is not help full at all, im on about patio)

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #13 on: June 11, 2017, 08:44:12 AM »
There's a Maplin in Truro, maybe you could get a dead cheap video card just to test things.

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #14 on: June 11, 2017, 08:46:44 AM »
There's a Maplin in Truro, maybe you could get a dead cheap video card just to test things.

good idea when iv'e got some free time i will go give that a try thx

Edit: here we go cheap one i just found http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/evga-1gb-gef-210-ddr3-r65lj

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #15 on: June 11, 2017, 08:58:08 AM »
Thanx for the compliment...welcome to my ignore list.
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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #16 on: June 11, 2017, 09:01:56 AM »
Thanx for the compliment...welcome to my ignore list.

yay thx excited to be here

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Re: my computer is dead by the looks of it but what part?
« Reply #17 on: June 11, 2017, 12:18:29 PM »
Hello 1O1Games,

Don't try to watch YouTube and play a game.
Unless it is a very basic game.