Hello everyone, I'm a total computer nub and really don't know very much about hardware and what to do when things break but I am able to follow instructions so I'm really hoping that someone here can help me as I'm so upset about what's happened. I play WoW, it's the only game I play and I used to play on a laptop...yesterday I bought a brand new desktop PC specifically for playing WoW, I was told that spec-wise this computer was total overkill and would have no problems whatsoever running it. Between yesterday morning and 1pm today I have probably [;ayed for about 6 hours and the PC was shut down overnight... I played for 1 hour today and all of a sudden my screen flickered black and the PC restarted, needless to say I was shocked. Upon restarting it showed an error 'Hyper transport flood error press f1 to resume', so I pressed f1 and it booted up as normal so I thought no more of it and hoped it was a once time occurance. I proceeded to reopen wow but as soon as I double clicked the icon the PC restarted again and presented me with the exact same error message. This time though when it restarted and I pressed f1 my screen went black and said 'no signal' as though my monitor had become unplugged or something. So I checked all the connections which were all fine, tried restarting the computer but the screen will not come back on. I have plugged into the integrated graphics port to write this and all is working fine but as soon as I plug into the card I get the 'no signal' message.
So far I have tried completely restoring the PC to factory settings, uninstalled/reinstalling the graphics drivers and disabling the onboard graphics in the BIOS (which gave me a POST of 1 long beep and 2 short beeps). I have also tried an old nvidia graphics card which does work but not properly, I guess it is not compatible with windows 7 as even after installed nvidias drivers it still did not display properly.
Does it sound like the graphics card is completely dead? I'm pretty sure that's what it is but would like a second opinion as I am so upset that the computer is only a day old and the graphics card has already broken, and I think its quite strange that it was working perfectly until I got that strange error.
Thank you so much in advance to anyone who can offer some advice!
Specs
ADVENT CBE1401 CENTURION
Black Edition AMD Phenom II X2 550 3.1Ghz CPU stock (up to 3.4Ghz in automated accelerated turbo overclocked mode)
- Foxconn AMD780 chip motherboard
- 4GB DDRII RAM (2x2GB 800Mhz)
- Watercooled CPU - for better noise reduction!
- Gigabyte AMD HD5750 1GB gaming graphics card with twin dual link DVI, HDMI, DisplayLink
- 750GB HDD
- WINDOWS 7 HOME PREMIUM