Total Windows crash, not sure whats going on


  1. Posts : 71
    Windows 7 Professional, 64bit
       #1

    Total Windows crash, not sure whats going on


    I was sitting at my PC when very suddenly the screen went all distorted, when I restarted it looked something like this (attached file). I tried to repair but installation DVD wouldn't even see the windows installation, so I reinstalled, it was painfully slow and got some failed to install messages along the way and finally it became distorted again. This is most likely hardware failing but which hardware? hard drive? MB? graphics card? its a averagely old PC which I've been using alot so I'm not sure what is not working exactly.

    Edit: my specs on here are correct if you are wondering about them.
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  2. Posts : 111
    Win7 Ultimate/X84
       #2

    Test those hardware parts on other computer and see if it causes any issues on that. I don't think there's any other way to identify the problem.
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  3. Posts : 179
    Windows 7 x64 Pro
       #3

    At first I thought it's only graphics card but since whole system is slow,well,hard disk or RAM might be also dying.

    Or...
    Power supply might be slowly dying so all other hardware will suffer.
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  4. Posts : 3,487
    Win 7 Pro x64/Win 10 Pro x64 dual boot
       #4

    My best guess would be the power supply going bad.
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  5. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #5

    Trying to give guidance on a PC/Laptop or what ever is impossible unless we know what we are working with.

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  6. Posts : 111
    Win7 Ultimate/X84
       #6

    unrealRage said:
    At first I thought it's only graphics card but since whole system is slow,well,hard disk or RAM might be also dying.

    Or...
    Power supply might be slowly dying so all other hardware will suffer.
    I agree with you. Power Supply should be tested first
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  7. Posts : 2,781
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #7

    This is failing GPU, can you get a friends card and test it in your machine?
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