Hard drive and gfx card failing at the same time

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Adam

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So i was playing a game today and my computer crashed while loading into a map, after rebooting the boot image was distorted and it failed to boot into windows 8. bios functioned but there was graphical errors, i replaced my gfx card with my integrated graphics and the graphical errors were gone, but windows still failed to boot. i tried booting into windows 7 on my old hard drive and it worked fine, i could browse files on my new hardrive as well and videos seem uncorrupted. is it possible that gfx card failure could corrupt a windows installation, or that a broken harddrive could corrupt a gfx card? is my only option to wipe my harddrive? and can the bios on my graphics card be restored if that is the problem with it?
 
I would suggest that you find a USB drive, throw SeaToolsDOS on it and run some tests on those HDDs. You never want a broken HDD.
It's a free utility from Seagate (can be used on any HDD) and it's very good.
Have you tried using your GPU in a different PC?
 
Seatools reported that my drive failed the drive self test but passed the others, my graphics card had the same problems on another computer.
 
That's an odd combination of failures. I wonder if you have heat issues causing these failures.
 
Twiki said:
That's an odd combination of failures. I wonder if you have heat issues causing these failures.
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That was my thought as well. When you upgraded your GPU did you make sure that your PSU could handle the upgrade. If not, it could cause similar problems in the booting phase. A similar situation recently happened to a friend of mine, turns out it was his low PSU that caused the problem.
 
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