GTX 660 Failed After A Few Days?

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Hello all. So I built a new gaming computer (specs below) and everything was running fine until last night. When I powered down my computer and came back home after work the next day, my graphics card wasn't outputting a signal whatsoever. I've tried different PCIe slots on my motherboard, tried different outputs on my card, made sure it was seated, the whole nine yards. The drivers were not updated or anything (don't have internet currently due to some problems), an older 512MB graphics card works fine in the same slot, and integrated graphics work fine. The graphics card was running superbly for maybe four days (BF4 on high settings with consistent 80 FPS!) right up until it randomly failed. I've contacted Asus customer support (they were great about the whole thing) and they suggested RMAing the card (acquired from Newegg). I REALLY don't want to have to wait forever for an RMA to go through, and was wondering if any of you had any suggestions? Thanks ahead of time!

My computer specs are:
CPU: i5-4670K Intel Processor at 3.4Ghz
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste: Arctic 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Paste
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme4 LGA 1150
RAM: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1866
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200 RPM
GPU: Asus nVidia GTX 660
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer
OS: Windows 8.1 OEM

Edit: PSU is a Corsair CX600M
 
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I tried that before, and just tried it again. The driver software won't install because it doesn't recognize the card is even in the computer. :( To my computer, the card doesn't exist, but my older 512MB card works fine
 
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I'm almost 100% positive. The fans on the card are spun up/spinning and there is a green LED on the card over where the power cables go into, and it is on.
 
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hmmm, maybe your card got fried but idk how it would, you have a quality power supply so it's not like I would expect a random surge from it. maybe try different power cables from your PSU if possible, is the 660 take 1 or 2 6 pins?
 
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The 660 takes a single 6-pin connector, but I've tried all of the different ones that came with it. I don't know how it would've gotten fried either. It's not overclocked (was planning on doing that later, guess not lol), I have the PSU plugged into a good power strip with a decent surge protector built in, and the computer was off too. Also, everything else was fine. I'm thinking I'm going to have to RMA it, but I don't want to because we have a snowstorm and some bad winter weather coming in to our area, and I know it wouldn't ship out for at least an extra day and a half/two days (St. Louis, Missouri area).
 
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simple troubleshoot
try to clear cmos
I would try 1 stick of ram each time to test as well changing to different channels
remove any overclock programme you recently installed
 
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Tried it before and tried it again, nothing. Computer still doesn't recognize the card, and the card won't output any signal.
 
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take the card and test it on friend rig or another power supply
if same thing happened you gonna have to send it to asus for rma
 
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I might be screwed, lol. The only other computer/PSU I have access to is a family computer with a 300W PSU, and I don't think that it will be able to handle the card. I took the old 512MB card out of that system, and the system could decently handle it with some power fluctuations.
 
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I guess so lol , because there only two options here
1-another good power supply to be extra sure it's the gpu
2-asus RMA

but nothing to lose to try these 300 watt pc you got if it's a good 300 watt it will power the card 660 uses 97 to 140 and it's not like you gonna play on 300 watt
it's just for signal testing
 
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Yeah, it's not outputting on the 300W PSU on the other computer either. Looks like and RMA is the only choice. Crap, lol
 
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