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PC won't boot up anymore after installing new GPU

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February 13, 2014 6:50:30 PM

I installed a GeForce GTX 780 yesterday, everything started out flawlessly. I played around with farcry 3 and a few other games to check out the new card. After about 5 hours, mostly idle work and video streaming, the power shut off as if something overheated while poking around in Guild Wars 2. The card was cool to the touch when I pulled it out and nothing else was radiating abnormal heat. I put the card back in and the PC booted up correctly.

Over the next 24 hours the PC was fine and suddenly powered off again while I was editing some text documents for school.

I pulled the card and put my old Radeon 5770 back in and the system won't boot up. The fans spin, LEDs light up, etc but no monitor picture or sound. The power supply fan starts up but then stops, its internal LEDs stay on.

The DRAM LED is solid red. I took the ram out and checked them one by one. I tried ram from another pc, nothing.

Specs:
Windows 8.1
Asus motherboard (can't remember model number)
Intel i7 920 2.8 GHz
4 GB DDR3 ram
Corsair GS800 power supply

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February 13, 2014 7:01:49 PM

Have you tried your PSU in another system or done the paperclip test? Same thing happened with my PSU right before it died, randomly shut off twice and it was no more.

Edit: Quick google link to how to do the paperclip test
http://www.corsair.com/us/blog/testing-your-corsair-pow...
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February 13, 2014 7:02:49 PM

Sounds like some sorta of power failure has killed your system... could try a diffrent power supply... or resetting Bios... Also you might need some temp program to monitor your temps of CPU and GPU...
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February 13, 2014 7:38:02 PM

That's what I hoped, since the PSU is still under warranty. I can test it in another system tomorrow, thanks for the quick responses.
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February 14, 2014 11:37:48 AM

The power supply works perfectly in another system.
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February 26, 2014 9:58:37 PM

Is your psu providing enough wattage.
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February 26, 2014 10:15:56 PM

Ruyo said:
I installed a GeForce GTX 780 yesterday, everything started out flawlessly. I played around with farcry 3 and a few other games to check out the new card. After about 5 hours, mostly idle work and video streaming, the power shut off as if something overheated while poking around in Guild Wars 2. The card was cool to the touch when I pulled it out and nothing else was radiating abnormal heat. I put the card back in and the PC booted up correctly.

Over the next 24 hours the PC was fine and suddenly powered off again while I was editing some text documents for school.

I pulled the card and put my old Radeon 5770 back in and the system won't boot up. The fans spin, LEDs light up, etc but no monitor picture or sound. The power supply fan starts up but then stops, its internal LEDs stay on.

The DRAM LED is solid red. I took the ram out and checked them one by one. I tried ram from another pc, nothing.

Specs:
Windows 8.1
Asus motherboard (can't remember model number)
Intel i7 920 2.8 GHz
4 GB DDR3 ram
Corsair GS800 power supply

The GPU might be starting to fail.
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