I'm having trouble even getting to the windows startup screen (sometimes it crashes and freezes on bios screen) A friend said that maybe it was the motherboard (Biostar TA790GXB3) since my GPU is literally pretty f'ing huge and heavy it may have caused damage to the PCI-E slot. I'm rather hoping this isn't the case obviously, but I've tried using the built in GPU to test and it doesn't work at all either. Any ideas? And yes I know that has nothing to do with skyrim, but I'm hoping SOMEONE may know so I can get BACK to skyrim. EDIT: oh and before anyone asks, yes I fully removed the discrete graphics card before testing the built-in, and I get the same results, either nothing shows up and the computer hangs and crashes or I see a bunch of blue boxes going nuts on the screen and the computer hangs and crashes. i actually did some digging and found their tech support for skyrim so here it is 410 568 3685 give them a ring and stress the issue so we can get this fixed