Hi, im new to these forums and not so good with computers. If i have posted in the wrong section i apologize for the inconvenience. I'll give some basic info on my system below and then try as best as i could to explain the problem i am having.
Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit)
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz
4 GB Ram
1 TB Hard Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
I was having some random computer shutdowns a couple months back. The computer would suddenly shutdown without letting me know, and would not allow me to re start it for a few seconds. I would wait a minute and try to boot up again and as soon as it starts up after a few seconds it would shut down again. It only did this if i had my computer open for a long time. After taking it to the technician, he said it was my cpu fan, he replaced it and when i got my pc back it started doing a whole different kind of crashing.
When i got the pc back (after they replaced the cpu fan) i started getting pc crashes resulting in my mouse curser slowing down dramatically untill it completely freezes and i would also notice red/pink lines on certain areas of the screen. The only way to get out of this was to manually shut down my pc then reboot it and everything would be normal again. This usually only happened when i had a few programs open and/or many tabs open in my internet browser. So i took it back to the technician and told him what was happening, he formated my pc and said it should be fine, but if anything it got worse. When i got back the pc it would take long to get past the windows icon screen upon start up, sometimes staying there and forcing me to reboot manually.
After doing some research and asking some friends, people were saying its either my graphics card or maybe the ram was failing. I got the pc formatted again but went for 64 bit version of windows instead of the 32 bit it was runing (i found out that i would not make use of full ram with 32 bit veersion) and it was still doing the same thing. So then i decided to test each ram stick by removing one and trying to open the pc with only 1 ram stick in it. With one ram removed it didnt start up at all, so i tried putting back the ram and removing the other and the pc started up. I had no issues for about 2 days then i got the same problem occuring again. I bought 2 new rams (2x2GB Kingston RAM) and installed it a few days back. Didn't have any issues for the first 2 days then i start getting the very same issue again.
I have updated drivers ect. and cant figure out what the issue is, iv'e spent enough money on this old machine as it is and dont want to go buy a new part for it like i did with the ram to discover im still getting the same issue again. Everything points toward the GPU but is it possible i may have damaged the CPU maybe with the faulty fan it had on previously? Or could it be the motherboard?
Any advice and help would be greatly appreciated, im sorry for the long post but i wanted to be as thorough as i could providing as much info that could help determine the issue.
Note: I only get the BSOD once in a while, not as frequent as the freezes with red pink pixel fragments. Also the BSOD reboots the system and i don't really have enough time to check the error messages.
Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit)
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz
4 GB Ram
1 TB Hard Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
I was having some random computer shutdowns a couple months back. The computer would suddenly shutdown without letting me know, and would not allow me to re start it for a few seconds. I would wait a minute and try to boot up again and as soon as it starts up after a few seconds it would shut down again. It only did this if i had my computer open for a long time. After taking it to the technician, he said it was my cpu fan, he replaced it and when i got my pc back it started doing a whole different kind of crashing.
When i got the pc back (after they replaced the cpu fan) i started getting pc crashes resulting in my mouse curser slowing down dramatically untill it completely freezes and i would also notice red/pink lines on certain areas of the screen. The only way to get out of this was to manually shut down my pc then reboot it and everything would be normal again. This usually only happened when i had a few programs open and/or many tabs open in my internet browser. So i took it back to the technician and told him what was happening, he formated my pc and said it should be fine, but if anything it got worse. When i got back the pc it would take long to get past the windows icon screen upon start up, sometimes staying there and forcing me to reboot manually.
After doing some research and asking some friends, people were saying its either my graphics card or maybe the ram was failing. I got the pc formatted again but went for 64 bit version of windows instead of the 32 bit it was runing (i found out that i would not make use of full ram with 32 bit veersion) and it was still doing the same thing. So then i decided to test each ram stick by removing one and trying to open the pc with only 1 ram stick in it. With one ram removed it didnt start up at all, so i tried putting back the ram and removing the other and the pc started up. I had no issues for about 2 days then i got the same problem occuring again. I bought 2 new rams (2x2GB Kingston RAM) and installed it a few days back. Didn't have any issues for the first 2 days then i start getting the very same issue again.
I have updated drivers ect. and cant figure out what the issue is, iv'e spent enough money on this old machine as it is and dont want to go buy a new part for it like i did with the ram to discover im still getting the same issue again. Everything points toward the GPU but is it possible i may have damaged the CPU maybe with the faulty fan it had on previously? Or could it be the motherboard?
Any advice and help would be greatly appreciated, im sorry for the long post but i wanted to be as thorough as i could providing as much info that could help determine the issue.
Note: I only get the BSOD once in a while, not as frequent as the freezes with red pink pixel fragments. Also the BSOD reboots the system and i don't really have enough time to check the error messages.