PC won't boot correctly and bars of static on screen

I was playing games for a hour or so when my PC suddenly locked up and crashed to a black screen. I restarted my pc but suddenly it would no longer boot past the windows troubleshooting screen. Additionally there are these large bars of static. I have attached a photo for reference. I don't think it's an issue with my SSD because I unplugged it and plugged in an old HDD and that had the same issue. I tried unplugging the HDMI from my GPU into the motherboard to utilize the integrated graphics but I get no signal.

Possibly relevant: A few days ago I was moving my PC to another house via car. When I tried to boot my PC afterward it wouldn't boot even to bios and instead beeped I think 4 times. I removed the covers of my PC to check for any lose cables but I didn't notice anything wrong. I tried to boot again and it worked and I didn't have any problems since today.

Also I don't know what my windows version number is because I can't boot my PC.

Edit: after testing, I think I have narrowed the issue down to my GPU. After taking it out, my pc now boots fine. When I put it back in it stops working again.

You have a hardware GPU problem. Google the trick of baking it an oven which fixes poor solder connections for some. If that fails you need a new GPU.

deepfrybanana said:

I decided to just buy a new one but I'm wondering. Why does a faulty GPU cause a PC to lockup and crash in the first place? Why would it prevent booting as well? Since the GPU is just for graphics i would've figured the PC would keep running fine it'd just have no display

I once had a PC which would fail to boot due to a faulty GPU. I could enter the BIOS where I could see video tearing which was the clue the GPU was faulty.