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LeafMuncher

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Hi all.

I've had my PC for just over 3.5 years and it seems my GPU has died (red VGA light on motherboard, no signal to monitor through both DVI ports)

i5 2500K (not OC'd currently)
16GB DDR3-1600 (2x8GB G.Skill)
Asus p8p67 (no onboard graphics, hopefully PCI-E slot is not the culprit)
Club3D HD6950 (the likely culprit)
Antec HCG750 (possible culprit but doubtful)
4 HDD (caviar greens) + 1 SSD (Samsung 840 Pro)

Basically the GPU has had issues in the past where it needed to be reseated (it's been bending slightly under it's own weight) which fixed the issue. I was away for 2 weeks and got back Monday night to find the issue. Reseating it 3 times has not helped this time around. The PC still boots to OS fine (windows music etc), would this happen if the PSU wasn't giving enough juice? I'll be able to test the card in another box later in the week, so hopefully I'll nail the culprit then, but is there any other way to check whether the PSU or motherboard are the weak link in the mean time?

If the GPU is the issue I would most likely upgrade to a GTX 770

Edit: I've tried with only one ram stick, the GPU and only SSD without any luck
 
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LeafMuncher said:
Hi all.

I've had my PC for just over 3.5 years and it seems my GPU has died (red VGA light on motherboard, no signal to monitor through both DVI ports)

i5 2500K (not OC'd currently)
16GB DDR3-1600 (2x8GB G.Skill)
Asus p8p67 (no onboard graphics, hopefully PCI-E slot is not the culprit)
Club3D HD6950 (the likely culprit)
Antec HCG750 (possible culprit but doubtful)
4 HDD (caviar greens) + 1 SSD (Samsung 840 Pro)

Basically the GPU has had issues in the past where it needed to be reseated (it's been bending slightly under it's own weight) which fixed the issue. I was away for 2 weeks and got back Monday night to find the issue. Reseating it 3 times has not helped this time around. The PC still boots to OS fine (windows music etc), would this happen if the PSU wasn't giving enough juice? I'll be able to test the card in another box later in the week, so hopefully I'll nail the culprit then, but is there any other way to check whether the PSU or motherboard are the weak link in the mean time?

If the GPU is the issue I would most likely upgrade to a GTX 770

Edit: I've tried with only one ram stick, the GPU and only SSD without any luck
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Please tell me you didnt forget to put the screw in to hold it in place.
 
It could be psu/gpu or mb from my own experience.
The psu could be damaged which in turn damaged the mb.
Or a similar scenario.
 
I had some feedback from an external midi/usb keyboard I used for music which did a fair bit of damage to my machine.
Luckily my GPU was under warranty so I got it sorted out.
3 GPU later, 3 power supplies, 3 mb.

It was a multitude of issues all stemming from the one device.
Once I stopped using the device causing the feedback and replaced everything again, I have not had the problem again.
 
I have the same motherboard, same graphics card (except it is an ASUS card).

If my card isn't seated properly it wont boot, if it is not getting enough power it wont boot.
Must say though i have had endless issues lately with it not booting, which turned out to be the ram slots on the motherboard.
 
Rickster said:
Please tell me you didnt forget to put the screw in to hold it in place.
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Funny story, I left the screw off this time and it's working :P

It seems to be the PCI-E slot causing the issues, my guess is the weight of the card has bent the inside of the slot a bit over time. Securing the card in a "straight" position isn't working, but letting it sag seems to be doing the job for now.

I tested my brother's 9500GT earlier (tiny card in comparison) and had no luck until I put a tiny bit of downward pressure on the corner and it suddenly worked, so I tried my own without the securing screw and voila, temporary solution! Now to find somewhere that still has socket 1155 boards at a reasonable price :/

web said:
I have the same motherboard, same graphics card (except it is an ASUS card).

If my card isn't seated properly it wont boot, if it is not getting enough power it wont boot.
Must say though i have had endless issues lately with it not booting, which turned out to be the ram slots on the motherboard.
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Yeah I had issues with the ram slots too at first (especially with my original corsair ram). IIRC the ram slots were labelled incorrectly in the English version of the manual for correct priority order
 
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LeafMuncher said:
Yeah I had issues with the ram slots too at first (especially with my original corsair ram). IIRC the ram slots were labelled incorrectly in the English version of the manual for correct priority order
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The RAM slot closest to the CPU is always A1.

And did you use MemOK?
 
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