LeVeL
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So here I am playing good ol' GTA San Andreas lol when the screens goes very staticy/fuzzy. Minimize the game - everything looks fine. Get back into the game and the screen starts getting worse in a hurry. By the time I get to a save point about 20 seconds later, I can barely see. Save, quit the game, and realize that the desktop now has some fuzzy specs all over the screen.
Restart. It freezes on the Starting Windows screen. This has happened before, I know what to do: open up the case, reseat 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.
Take each RAM stick out one by one and keep trying various combinations. Same thing.
Specs below. This thing is about three years old. Yes, the GPU sucks.
I'm guessing it's a problem with GPU or mobo... right?
Restart. It freezes on the Starting Windows screen. This has happened before, I know what to do: open up the case, reseat 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.
Take each RAM stick out one by one and keep trying various combinations. Same thing.
Specs below. This thing is about three years old. Yes, the GPU sucks.
I'm guessing it's a problem with GPU or mobo... right?
CPU: i5 2500K quad-core 3.3GHz.
GPU: 512MB GeForce 8800GT
RAM: 2x4GB Ripjaws DDR3 1600
MSI P67A-C43 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
New SSD.