- Dec 28, 2013
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Upon turning my computer on after two seconds of the Windows 8.1 splash screen (just before the loading circle) the computer will crash and turn off.
My motherboard has a faulty PCIEx16 port. At random intervals, for no explicable reason, output will stop from the port. Through every combination of PSU and GPU I have ever owned, that problem has persisted. This morning I attempted to move my GTX 970 into the PCIx4 port, but never had time to test it because I was called into work.
So, I turned the computer on, everything seemed normal until the crash. I proceeded to turn it on again, just in case it was one of those random occurances, but it happened again. I then moved it back to the PCIx16 lane, and the problem persisted. So I unplugged the 8-pin and 6-pin power cords going into the GPU, but obviously the BIOS told me to plug them back in.
Specs:
AMD FX-8350 (not OCed) with CM Hyper 212 evo heatsink
Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970
Gigabyte GA970-DS3 motherboard
Crucial Ballistic Sport 8GB 1333 DDR3
Corsair CXM500
Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB
TP-Link PCI Wi-Fi network card
My motherboard has a faulty PCIEx16 port. At random intervals, for no explicable reason, output will stop from the port. Through every combination of PSU and GPU I have ever owned, that problem has persisted. This morning I attempted to move my GTX 970 into the PCIx4 port, but never had time to test it because I was called into work.
So, I turned the computer on, everything seemed normal until the crash. I proceeded to turn it on again, just in case it was one of those random occurances, but it happened again. I then moved it back to the PCIx16 lane, and the problem persisted. So I unplugged the 8-pin and 6-pin power cords going into the GPU, but obviously the BIOS told me to plug them back in.
Specs:
AMD FX-8350 (not OCed) with CM Hyper 212 evo heatsink
Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970
Gigabyte GA970-DS3 motherboard
Crucial Ballistic Sport 8GB 1333 DDR3
Corsair CXM500
Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB
TP-Link PCI Wi-Fi network card
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