May 19 2012, 08:08 AM
I knew the RAM was a problem from the first sentence :/ There are normally accompanying beeps or indicator lights for proc failure, and if it was a GPU issue, you can normally still tell the HDDs are spinning up. It's normally pretty easy to borrow a stick of ram too and swap it.
"Most people think time is like a river, that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you, they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm."