Having strange problems with my computer and can't figure out a solution.
This all started about a week ago I woke up and saw the VGA light was on on my motherboard and the screen had gone blank, I turned off the computer and went to work. When I came home the computer wouldn't boot the VGA light just kept coming on. Thinking I was having problems with my graphics card I tried moving it down to the second PCIe lane and was able to get the computer to post but it still wouldn't boot. Tore the entire computer down to one stick of ram and tried to boot through CPU's on board graphics and it still only posted. Ended up running the windows repair disk and had to completely reinstall windows 10. After i reinstalled drivers I was able to get everything up and running and was able to game
About a day or so later I go to play some games and get like 15-20 fps on games I always get 60+. Now I am trying to figure out why. Did some googling to see what my problem could be, first I tried the removing the graphics drivers and doing a clean install. Nothing. Searched some more and heard someone mention their graphics card was running at 8x instead of 16x and after a looking I saw my card is running at 4x in the first PCIe slot and at 8X in the second PCIe slot. these are both 16x slots. Checked both in the BIOS and using CPUID. I am running on a clean install of windows 10 with all the latest drivers. I wish i had another graphics card to try on my motherboard to see what is causing the problems...
PC
i5 4690k - stock
EVGA GTX970 SC
Asus Z97-AR
Corsair RM 750
This all started about a week ago I woke up and saw the VGA light was on on my motherboard and the screen had gone blank, I turned off the computer and went to work. When I came home the computer wouldn't boot the VGA light just kept coming on. Thinking I was having problems with my graphics card I tried moving it down to the second PCIe lane and was able to get the computer to post but it still wouldn't boot. Tore the entire computer down to one stick of ram and tried to boot through CPU's on board graphics and it still only posted. Ended up running the windows repair disk and had to completely reinstall windows 10. After i reinstalled drivers I was able to get everything up and running and was able to game
About a day or so later I go to play some games and get like 15-20 fps on games I always get 60+. Now I am trying to figure out why. Did some googling to see what my problem could be, first I tried the removing the graphics drivers and doing a clean install. Nothing. Searched some more and heard someone mention their graphics card was running at 8x instead of 16x and after a looking I saw my card is running at 4x in the first PCIe slot and at 8X in the second PCIe slot. these are both 16x slots. Checked both in the BIOS and using CPUID. I am running on a clean install of windows 10 with all the latest drivers. I wish i had another graphics card to try on my motherboard to see what is causing the problems...
PC
i5 4690k - stock
EVGA GTX970 SC
Asus Z97-AR
Corsair RM 750
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