Short Circuit Problem

808nheart

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Aug 1, 2014
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Yesterday I was changing out my WLAN card because 8.1 was giving me problems..I was in a rush n wasn't thinking and pulled it out while the system was on. It touched the back of my MSI r9 270x 2GB card n it sparked and caused the system to shutdown. I was able to turn it on and the card works but not fully. Before I was able to play most games at 1080p on highest settings with 60fps. Now it shutters so bad I get fps around 30. I switched out my card with my HD 7770 n it also shutters bad too; it never did that on that card either. So I don't know if it's the pci-e, the card or the whole mobo.

I'm using an AMD fx-6300 with a gigabyte 970a-ud3p mobo. The weird thing is I can run furmark and look on msi afterburner n see it running fine but in game the gpu ussage jumps up n down drastically.

Any thoughts or ideas?
 

clutchc

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That's unfortunate. It sounds (from your description) that you may have smoked something on the motherboard by grounding out a circuit on the back of the gfx card.
You may get lucky and it be only a temporary thing. Unplug the PSU for awhile and reset the BIOS by removing the CMOS battery and using the CLR CMOS jumper. (Any setting changes you made in BIOS will have to be re-done)
 

808nheart

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I put the bios in it default settings. I had a slight overclock to the CPU at 4.5 and the volts at ~1.4. I also had the memory at XMP1 1866. After that the shuttering stopped but the card finally bit the dust I played a bit of PVZ: GW and it gave me a light blue screen. I put the old card back in and it ran fine...again the overclock I had was fine before the shock but I don't know. It works fine for now, I might bump it back up later on and see if it acts up again.
 

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