Not sure if this is the right section for this but...
I was playing good ol' GTA San Andreas when the screen went very staticy/fuzzy. Minimized the game - everything looks fine. Got back into the game and the screen started getting worse in a hurry. By the time I got to a save point about 20 seconds later, I could barely see. Saved, quit the game, and realized that the desktop now had some fuzzy specs all over the screen.
Restarted. It froze on the Starting Windows screen. This has happened before, I know what to do: open up the case, re-seat the GPU and RAM. Power on... It runs for about two seconds before shutting down and starting back up five seconds later. Rinse and repeat. No beeps, nothing unusual.
Took the GPU and RAM out again and put them back in. Same thing.
Took each RAM stick out one by one and keep trying various combinations. Same thing.
PSU is only about a year old - after my old one died I made sure to get a better unit than before. Hard drive is only about a month old. This morning I went out and bought a new GPU but that didn't solve the issue either.
Specs below. This thing is about three years old.
CPU: i5 2500K quad-core 3.3GHz.
GPU: Took out the old 512MB GeForce 8800GT and instead put in a GTX 750ti this morning.
RAM: 2x4GB Ripjaws DDR3 1600
MSI P67A-C43 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
New SSD.
Win7.
My only thought is that I need a new mobo but I figured I'd seek advice before dealing with that headache.
I was playing good ol' GTA San Andreas when the screen went very staticy/fuzzy. Minimized the game - everything looks fine. Got back into the game and the screen started getting worse in a hurry. By the time I got to a save point about 20 seconds later, I could barely see. Saved, quit the game, and realized that the desktop now had some fuzzy specs all over the screen.
Restarted. It froze on the Starting Windows screen. This has happened before, I know what to do: open up the case, re-seat the GPU and RAM. Power on... It runs for about two seconds before shutting down and starting back up five seconds later. Rinse and repeat. No beeps, nothing unusual.
Took the GPU and RAM out again and put them back in. Same thing.
Took each RAM stick out one by one and keep trying various combinations. Same thing.
PSU is only about a year old - after my old one died I made sure to get a better unit than before. Hard drive is only about a month old. This morning I went out and bought a new GPU but that didn't solve the issue either.
Specs below. This thing is about three years old.
CPU: i5 2500K quad-core 3.3GHz.
GPU: Took out the old 512MB GeForce 8800GT and instead put in a GTX 750ti this morning.
RAM: 2x4GB Ripjaws DDR3 1600
MSI P67A-C43 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
New SSD.
Win7.
My only thought is that I need a new mobo but I figured I'd seek advice before dealing with that headache.
