- Aug 8, 2013
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I have a Dell XPS Studio 435t:
i7 920
6 gigs DDR3
Original power supply: 475 watt(can probably get specific currents if needed)
Some weeks ago I upgraded the GPU to a GTX 660ti. Everything was running great until one day weeks later I got that amber light of death when I tried to start her up. No beeps, no post screen, no nothing...just the fans running and what seemed like no activity from the processor. I assumed the motherboard or the CPU was the culprit, but I had no way to determine that without extra parts. So, like an idiot, I gave it to the geek squad(please don't hurt me too bad for that...it was the only place I could go in this area). Well I guess they're so incompetent that they can't even run a diagnostic without a video display, so they claimed it was pci failure. I can tell you it was more than that because the mouse and the keyboard wouldn't power up either.
Ok so in an attempt to run down the problem I put the original GPU back in, and still had the same problem. I'm wondering if its possible that installing the 660ti could have done something to the motherboard that caused it to fail. I know that sounds unlikely...especially since I've read at least one user doing the same thing to the same computer with the same GPU and his still works apparently. I just don't want to get all new components and have the same thing happen again.
i7 920
6 gigs DDR3
Original power supply: 475 watt(can probably get specific currents if needed)
Some weeks ago I upgraded the GPU to a GTX 660ti. Everything was running great until one day weeks later I got that amber light of death when I tried to start her up. No beeps, no post screen, no nothing...just the fans running and what seemed like no activity from the processor. I assumed the motherboard or the CPU was the culprit, but I had no way to determine that without extra parts. So, like an idiot, I gave it to the geek squad(please don't hurt me too bad for that...it was the only place I could go in this area). Well I guess they're so incompetent that they can't even run a diagnostic without a video display, so they claimed it was pci failure. I can tell you it was more than that because the mouse and the keyboard wouldn't power up either.
Ok so in an attempt to run down the problem I put the original GPU back in, and still had the same problem. I'm wondering if its possible that installing the 660ti could have done something to the motherboard that caused it to fail. I know that sounds unlikely...especially since I've read at least one user doing the same thing to the same computer with the same GPU and his still works apparently. I just don't want to get all new components and have the same thing happen again.
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