Need help once again, Gigabyte GTX 770 4g throwing CPU_LED on boot!

Wu941

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http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1983719/gigabyte-gtx-770-boot.html

Well I sort of gave up for a while after I closed the above thread and I chose a solution once I was able to POST with graphics card but still not 100% failure free. Now I am at the point where I need to decide if its the Mobo or the graphics card. I am still receiving the CPU_LED when I try to cold start in the mornings when I get up (time of day doesn't matter I guess) and I have done all the following:

-checked Mobo PINs to make sure they are seated correctly
-re seated the graphics card... multiple times
-swapped PCIE cables to see if one was bad
-changed default graphics adapter to PCIE instead of AUTO in BIOS
-swapped my graphics card with my friends much older GTX 465, which works without any issues in my computer. However when my GTX 770 is installed in his, the computer won't even give a response when you hit the power button... slight chirp, then silence. Granted his is much older, but it does have a 750W PSU which is the same as mine and his MOBO supports PCIE16. As soon as you take the GTX 770 out the computer POST... coincidence?

So just to re cap, I CAN get the GTX 770 to POST in my computer SOMETIMES. If I power down after getting the CPU_LED and then switch off the PSU / take out the power cable and then plug it back in the computer almost always starts up on the next boot.

 
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It's all so silly. Go with the defunct card theory and exchange it. Relying on such a thing as 'It will run fine if I boot it half a dozen times.' is just - silly. It's silly. Computers - from the builder and user perspective - a relatively simple things. They should boot up the first time every time, or they should be repaired. If your card doesn't work in two entirely different machines, it's bad. Dud cards aren't that uncommon.

Best of luck.

Wu941

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Eh, I doubt that both of the PSUs are bad... especially since my friends has been working for him no problem and now all of the sudden when I put my card in his it won't start. To me it seems like the PCIE connections on the card are faulty. But I have found that cycling the power really does nothing except for placebo effect... I thought it made a difference but I read another thread where someone was getting CPU_LED on first boot up over night but then could get the PC started after 2 or 3 power downs / boot ups. What is the difference between leaving it shut down over night opposed to just shutting down and rebooting... because I can shut down and reboot no problem it's just when the PC sits for extended periods (like going to Sleep) off or on that it throws the CPU_LED. Below is the link to that thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1773872/boot-time-cpu-led-stays-time-booting-works-fine.html
 

clayofthe757

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It's all so silly. Go with the defunct card theory and exchange it. Relying on such a thing as 'It will run fine if I boot it half a dozen times.' is just - silly. It's silly. Computers - from the builder and user perspective - a relatively simple things. They should boot up the first time every time, or they should be repaired. If your card doesn't work in two entirely different machines, it's bad. Dud cards aren't that uncommon.

Best of luck.
 
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Wu941

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so apparently it was a faulty PSU... I guess it was sending varied power to the MOBO and it didn't like it. Got a brand new one of the same model and I have 0 issues.