Hi all,
I recently bought a GTX 770 (actual Nvidia brand from Best Buy), and installed it in my Dell XPS with no issues. Its worked fine for some time, then I woke up in the middle of the night last night to my PC fans all on high and no display on the screen. I tried rebooting and the system only restarted when I removed the graphics card and went to on board graphics. The card hasn't run hot at all, and was only running a itunes podcast when the issue arose. I believe (but am not sure since i was marginally awake at the time) that the fan in the gpu was working, but the leds on the card were not.
On a whim, I installed the card again and rebooted, and now the card seems to be working fine. I'd already set the card up for an RMA since its 2 months old, but I don't know now what caused the issue and hate to return a card unless the issue repeats itself or I can find a real problem. It seemed like it was an overheat issue at the time, but the GPU fan is working fine now, the leds are working, it is running at 48C with the little load that is on it at the moment.
What can i do to troubleshoot this? Is there a program that tracks and records GPU temps, relative to workload or software running that I should be using? I have speed fan installed but don't use it, and instead just rely on the default settings for cooling through the dell motherboard.
(System note: I added a 750 watt corsair PSU recently, and will soon be building a new system. I don't know if its related, but my sound card recently died, too. Its fairly old, but it could also be indicative of a intermittent fault with the PSU i suppose. I should probably monitor the PSU outputs and record them in the troubleshooting process as well.)
Thanks in advance!
Jim
I recently bought a GTX 770 (actual Nvidia brand from Best Buy), and installed it in my Dell XPS with no issues. Its worked fine for some time, then I woke up in the middle of the night last night to my PC fans all on high and no display on the screen. I tried rebooting and the system only restarted when I removed the graphics card and went to on board graphics. The card hasn't run hot at all, and was only running a itunes podcast when the issue arose. I believe (but am not sure since i was marginally awake at the time) that the fan in the gpu was working, but the leds on the card were not.
On a whim, I installed the card again and rebooted, and now the card seems to be working fine. I'd already set the card up for an RMA since its 2 months old, but I don't know now what caused the issue and hate to return a card unless the issue repeats itself or I can find a real problem. It seemed like it was an overheat issue at the time, but the GPU fan is working fine now, the leds are working, it is running at 48C with the little load that is on it at the moment.
What can i do to troubleshoot this? Is there a program that tracks and records GPU temps, relative to workload or software running that I should be using? I have speed fan installed but don't use it, and instead just rely on the default settings for cooling through the dell motherboard.
(System note: I added a 750 watt corsair PSU recently, and will soon be building a new system. I don't know if its related, but my sound card recently died, too. Its fairly old, but it could also be indicative of a intermittent fault with the PSU i suppose. I should probably monitor the PSU outputs and record them in the troubleshooting process as well.)
Thanks in advance!
Jim
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