- Jul 22, 2013
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Hello people,
My question is to some experts who have experience in GPU hardware faults.
I bought a used XFX GTX 260 core edition about 4 months ago. It was working fine till last week.
Then last week when I tried to turn on my PC, the fans moved for a sec and then stopped. I spent alot of time to figure out it was the Card causing the fault.
What I believe is the Card's circuit is shorted somewhere so when I tried to turn on the PC, some "auto-protect-from-short-circuit" feature (from the PSU I believe) didn't let it run.
Later I disassembled the Card's heatsink so see if there was some surprise inside but there was none.
Then I tried to test for the short using multimeter ( I am not an expert, I just know basic electronics) and I found the terminals except in red circles in the picture, were all shorted to the ground.
So My question is, Is this normal ? Can anyone confirm if this is normal ?
I want to be sure that its the CARD.
My specs are :
Cooler Master 550GX, 2X4GB Corsair DDR3, AMD FX6100, Gigabyte GM-D2H MOBO, And the GPU (had) XFX GTX 260 core edition.
IS this possible that the PSU is causing a problem ? I've been using this PSU for about 10 months and It never caused any problem. I used GTX 285 card with this PSU before.
Please any help is appreciated. This was a good card for 1360x768 resolution.
I'll have to sell my stuff to get a new one now. I just spent my money a week ago.
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