I've been having some problems with my rig crashing lately. I powered it off to see if that helped, and now it won't power on at all. I've listed below the specs and the problems I've been having. Any help as far as what to test or what needs replacing would be really helpful, as I haven't the foggiest of what's going on.
Specs
Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 810
Sapphire HD 5850
4GB Nvidia-Branded RAM
160GB Seagate OS Drive (old)
Coolmax CUG-700B PSU
Problems
Ever since I installed the 5850, the AMD driver would randomly crash. It only happened every now and again, and it didn't really bother me because it would take me out of the game for 1 minute and then it would just pop back in. The system tray always popped up a balloon saying the driver had stopped responding. I got busy with school and never tried to fix it.
About 1/1.5 months ago, I bought FIFA 12 on sale. Game is great, but it would always crash about 20-30 minutes into the game. The crash was a complete cut to black screen with the audio hanging. No balloon pop-up. The only way to get it out was to do a hard reset. I thought this was a game specific problem as I had never seen it before.
Today I loaded Batman:AC, and it did the same crash about 20-30 minutes into the game. I did a hard reset, and reloaded the game with some system monitoring tools up. RAM was at 75%, CPU was about 75-80% at peak, and the GPU (which I thought was the culprit at the time) never hit 100% usage, and didn't rise about ~70C. After crashing again, I decided to try Team Fortress 2, as that had never seen one of these hard crashes. Sure enough, same gig.
I did a complete power down, and now it won't start back up. I press the power button and literally nothing happens. No fans, no LEDs, no beeps, nothing. I opened the case to make sure all the connections are solid. There is no visual indication that anything went wrong. No "pops", smoke, or obvious damage. There was some dust in the case, but it was actually pretty clean overall.
Do you guys have any idea what might be going on? Any tests I should/could run? Any help is really appreciated as I don't really know what to do. I know the parts are old, but the thing games just fine for me, and I'm wanting to spend the least amount of money as possible to get it going as there are some more pressing financial concerns at the moment.
Specs
Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 810
Sapphire HD 5850
4GB Nvidia-Branded RAM
160GB Seagate OS Drive (old)
Coolmax CUG-700B PSU
Problems
Ever since I installed the 5850, the AMD driver would randomly crash. It only happened every now and again, and it didn't really bother me because it would take me out of the game for 1 minute and then it would just pop back in. The system tray always popped up a balloon saying the driver had stopped responding. I got busy with school and never tried to fix it.
About 1/1.5 months ago, I bought FIFA 12 on sale. Game is great, but it would always crash about 20-30 minutes into the game. The crash was a complete cut to black screen with the audio hanging. No balloon pop-up. The only way to get it out was to do a hard reset. I thought this was a game specific problem as I had never seen it before.
Today I loaded Batman:AC, and it did the same crash about 20-30 minutes into the game. I did a hard reset, and reloaded the game with some system monitoring tools up. RAM was at 75%, CPU was about 75-80% at peak, and the GPU (which I thought was the culprit at the time) never hit 100% usage, and didn't rise about ~70C. After crashing again, I decided to try Team Fortress 2, as that had never seen one of these hard crashes. Sure enough, same gig.
I did a complete power down, and now it won't start back up. I press the power button and literally nothing happens. No fans, no LEDs, no beeps, nothing. I opened the case to make sure all the connections are solid. There is no visual indication that anything went wrong. No "pops", smoke, or obvious damage. There was some dust in the case, but it was actually pretty clean overall.
Do you guys have any idea what might be going on? Any tests I should/could run? Any help is really appreciated as I don't really know what to do. I know the parts are old, but the thing games just fine for me, and I'm wanting to spend the least amount of money as possible to get it going as there are some more pressing financial concerns at the moment.