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I am a long time lurker of the site and I just powered up my first custom built desktop and am already having issues I am desperate for help with.

Here the story: Bought this computer from a friend who was getting rid of it on the cheap. He built it custom and it has worked great for him.
I moved off to college, and bought the PC from him, but kept it at home for awhile.
I decided I wanted it at college, so I had my family package is snug in a piece of luggage and take it out with them to visit me at college.
When I got the computer, the cpu cooling fan had fallen out so I plugged it back in and locked it back onto the motherboard.

I waited for a week for a power cord to come in because my parents forgot the power cord so I got a 16AWG cord from monoprice.

Anyways, I just turned on the PC for the first time and all was looking well for about 30 minutes, till everything crapped out.
Now I know this isn't a display issue, but its an issue that has display symptoms.
Attached is a video of what the display looks like.

Basically the display works great on startup, but after about 30 seconds from login, the computer goes fuzzy and everything freezes up.
I looked inside the computer and pulled some components to clean them out. Ran the computer and still had issues.

One thing I noticed which may have to do with something, but I am too nooby to know, is that these little capacitor looking things on the graphics card look like they were blown up. I'll upload a picture to show you.
I don't know if that has any effect on anything, I'm just trying to list all the symptoms.
I'm using a geoforce 7300gt

specs:
Tower- ATX Tc3j-4050
Motherboard- Intel dp67ba
cpu- i5 2500k
graphics- geoforce 7300gt
RAM- 2X4GB= 8GB Corsair RAM
HDD- 1TB and 2 TB drives

Thank you so much for any help!

http://youtu.be/g4aRYLf_roU - FUZZY SCREEN

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60170022@N04/8121041484/in/photostream - graphics card
post #2 of 4
Before reading about the GPU capacitors, I locked in on a problem right away.

If the cooler fell off the CPU, then it would not have been enough to just put it back. You see that TIM is not good anymore. You'd have to remove the cooler, clean the TIM off both CPU and cooler heatsink, apply new TIM, and reinstall cooler. Otherwise you'd have heat issues and that would be why after 30 min your computer would freeze and shut off.

Now, if your card has blown capacitors, please replace and don't use as that may just blow the mobo and other components on your computer.

So two things here, replace your GPU and take the steps I mentioned for your CPU/Cooler.

Good luck.
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BitofHeaven
(16 items)
 
Sarabera
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GreenLee
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CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i5-3570K ASRock Z77E-ITX mITX  Sapphire HD 5970 OC G.SKILL Ripjaws 2X4GB DDR3-1600 
Hard DriveHard DriveOptical DriveCooling
Crucial SSD 128GB mSATA SATA III 6GB  Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATAII 32MB 7200RPM LG DVD R/W SATA with LightScribe Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H100 
OSMonitorKeyboardPower
Win 7 Professional x64bit Samsung SynchMaster 24" Widescreen TFT-LCD Logitech G15 Corsair AX850 Gold Fully Modular 
CaseMouseMouse PadAudio
BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ATX Black  Microsoft Sidewinder X5 Redmond Mouse Pad Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel i5 750 @4.0GHz - 1.325V Gigabyte P55 UD3R Galaxy 8800 GT OC G. Skills Ripjaws 2x2GB 1600MHz 
Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATAII 32MB 720... LG DVD R/W SATA Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H50 Win 7 Professional x64bit 
MonitorKeyboardPowerCase
Samsung 22" Widescreen TFT-LCD Logitech Deluxe 250 Cooler Master Silent Pro 1000W Cooler Master Cosmos 1000 
Mouse
Logitech MX 518 
CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core 2 Quad 6600  Motherboard: XFX 780i SLI Galaxy 8800 GT OC OCZ Reaper HPC SLI DDR2 1066MHz 2GB Kit 
Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
Western Digital Caviar 500GB SATAII 7200RPM Samsung Super Writer Master Thermaltake Max Orb Win Vista 32bit 
MonitorKeyboardPowerCase
LG 22" Widescreen TFT-LCD Logitech Deluxe 250 Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750W Antec Mid Tower 
Mouse
Microsoft Comfort 1000 
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Thanks for the help, I ended up ordering a xfx r7770 graphics card since I got it on the cheap.
Well, turns out, I don't think my computer has the 6 pin cable required to power the graphics card.
When I turn the computer on without the graphics card I get a series of two long beeps, a pause, and then two long beeps.
When I turn the computer on with the graphics card, I get the same series of beeps. (That is, without having the 6 pin on the graphics card plugged into the power supply)
My guess is its time for a new power supply, but that is just instinct telling me that. What do you guys think? Again, I'm new at this.

Here are the specs
Power supply- 450watt
Tower- ATX Tc3j-4050
Motherboard- Intel dp67ba
cpu- i5 2500k
graphics- xfx 7770
RAM- 2X4GB= 8GB Corsair RAM

Edit: Stupid me. I didn't read the side of the box, says 500watt power supply mandatory. So do those beeps indicated a need for more power or what?
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Update: Tried the old broken graphics card again to see if it would even start up. Sure enough, nothing. Flashed on for a second but immediately shut off. I'm hopeless
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