I don't know if this is the right thread to ask (I thought we had a computer problems OT but couldn't find it).
Playing Diablo 3 fried my computer yesterday. I was playing the game and all of the sudden the game froze, there was a high pitch sound coming from the speakers and the computer became totally unresponsive. I pressed the power button for 15 seconds to manually restart it, and when it came back, the first screen I usually have when I turn my computer was all messed up. The image was really faint and some of the letters in the words were wrong or in the wrong areas. Again I restarted and then I got nothing as the screen was completely blank. Could the video card have gone bad?
My suspicion was that if the video card was busted, windows would still boot up in the background. To test this, I let it run for an amount of time I was sure always brings up the main Windows login screen. And then I pressed the power button which usually takes about 15 seconds to shut down the computer. This didn't happen. When I get home from work, I'm going to try some more troubleshooting by removing things.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I would really appreciated. I really hope it's not the CPU or the motherboard. What are the symptoms when the power supply goes bad? Will it still run the fans?