- Oct 23, 2014
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Hi. Two months ago, sometimes, when I turned on my PC, the fans from my graphics card (an EVGA NVIDIA 780 GTX 6 GB) would spin at the highest speed, and the card would not output display. This happened seldomly for the first few weeks, then it became frequent. Every single time the fix was to clear the BIOS CMOS.
However, today my machine just wouldn't turn on. I tried clearing the CMOS to no avail. I took my computer to a technician who told me my PSU (a Corsair RM850) was damaged. The PC actually turned on when disconnecting the graphics card, but then it would shut down sometime afterwards. This also happened using the PSU in another machine.
I RMA'd my PSU, and I'm expecting a new one in one or two weeks. However, when I returned home I installed an old PSU I had (Thermaltake TR2 700W) which used to work with my PC and it too didn't turn on the machine when I left the graphics card. If I removed the graphics card, it started. I even put an old GPU (a Nvidia 680 GTX) and everything worked ok.
I'm afraid my GPU died, that perhaps the PSU killed it. It seems weird to me that using a different PSU which actually was the previous one installed in the same PC doesn't work now and exhibits the same kind of behaviour the last one had (can turn on the PC without the graphics card, can't turn on with the graphics card)
Is it ok to be worried about my GPU?
However, today my machine just wouldn't turn on. I tried clearing the CMOS to no avail. I took my computer to a technician who told me my PSU (a Corsair RM850) was damaged. The PC actually turned on when disconnecting the graphics card, but then it would shut down sometime afterwards. This also happened using the PSU in another machine.
I RMA'd my PSU, and I'm expecting a new one in one or two weeks. However, when I returned home I installed an old PSU I had (Thermaltake TR2 700W) which used to work with my PC and it too didn't turn on the machine when I left the graphics card. If I removed the graphics card, it started. I even put an old GPU (a Nvidia 680 GTX) and everything worked ok.
I'm afraid my GPU died, that perhaps the PSU killed it. It seems weird to me that using a different PSU which actually was the previous one installed in the same PC doesn't work now and exhibits the same kind of behaviour the last one had (can turn on the PC without the graphics card, can't turn on with the graphics card)
Is it ok to be worried about my GPU?
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