2 Year old computer will no longer boot with Graphics Card installed

meie1kyl

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I have recently been having issues booting my pc with the graphics card installed. This was a gradually worsening problem, the computer was working normally and over the course of about 3 weeks began to not boot when powered on. This began as a problem every 10th boot or so and continued to worsen until the computer will no longer boot at all if the card is installed. When trying to boot, the computer will power up the fans and that's all, no bios flash on the screen, nothing. If the graphics card is removed, the computer will boot every single time and the on board graphics work. I assumed the problem was the card and RMA'd it with ASUS. I sent in the card, received a replacement, and again, the computer will not boot. I assumed the card sent to me was DOA, but tried it in another computer and the graphics card works on that computer. I am unable to try another graphics card in my computer since the only ones I have available have 2 power connectors and my PSU (modular) only has one connector available, I'm unable to find additional cords for it.

At this point I'm suspecting the power supply or motherboard, I could pull the power supply from my wife's computer to test, haven't tried that yet.

SPECS:

Intel i5 3470k
ASUS P8Z77-M Motherboard
ASUS GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST
Corsair CX500M PSU
SAMSUNG 840 EVO 120GB SSD
2X WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM
G.SKILL 2 x 4GB RAM
Win7 64 bit

Computer was built Dec 2013

Extreme outer vision website calculated power consumption at 370 watts.
 
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I would think it'd be the motherboard if it works without the GPU. That same 12V would be powering the system without the GPU as it would with it.

I think cleaning the PCIe slot with some isopropyl alcohol and a toothbrush would be a good idea. It might have poor contact.

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I would think it'd be the motherboard if it works without the GPU. That same 12V would be powering the system without the GPU as it would with it.

I think cleaning the PCIe slot with some isopropyl alcohol and a toothbrush would be a good idea. It might have poor contact.

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holyprof

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Umm, no. The integrated GPU draws much less power than any dedicated card.
Still, trying your solution will not hurt. He can try relocating the GPU to another PCI-E slot as well.