- Mar 4, 2016
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Hello!
So basically I built another PC with my older components leftover when I upgraded. I don't use it that often as its connected to my TV and its not my main machine. When we built the PC we tested it to make sure everything worked and it did.
Specs:
650w PSU
i7 3770k
GTX 770
120gb SSD
1tb HDD
8gb Ram
Asrock Z77 pro4-m
All of a sudden when I decided to play some PC games on my TV and turned on the PC there was no video output from the GTX 770. When we plugged the HDMI/VGA cable into the onboard slots to look at the BIOS, the system browser showed all of the PCI-E slots being empty.
We tried reseating the GPU. changing to another PCI-E slot and replacing the power cables but came up empty.
We then tried switching the GPUs from my machines over (GTX 770 and 970) to test it and the GTX 770 worked fine in my main machine but my GTX 970 was still not recognized by the BIOS in the second PC. So it sounds like a motherboard issue.
We then tried one last test, to see if the PCI-E slots on the motherboard were faulty by using a PCI-E Wireless card in the slots and the BIOS recognized it and it works.
I dont understand whats happened, it makes sense for one PCI-E slot to break but not all of them at once? It also doesnt make sense that my wireless card works in the slots, if they were truly broken. The issue is not with the GTX 770 as it works in my main machine.
So basically I built another PC with my older components leftover when I upgraded. I don't use it that often as its connected to my TV and its not my main machine. When we built the PC we tested it to make sure everything worked and it did.
Specs:
650w PSU
i7 3770k
GTX 770
120gb SSD
1tb HDD
8gb Ram
Asrock Z77 pro4-m
All of a sudden when I decided to play some PC games on my TV and turned on the PC there was no video output from the GTX 770. When we plugged the HDMI/VGA cable into the onboard slots to look at the BIOS, the system browser showed all of the PCI-E slots being empty.
We tried reseating the GPU. changing to another PCI-E slot and replacing the power cables but came up empty.
We then tried switching the GPUs from my machines over (GTX 770 and 970) to test it and the GTX 770 worked fine in my main machine but my GTX 970 was still not recognized by the BIOS in the second PC. So it sounds like a motherboard issue.
We then tried one last test, to see if the PCI-E slots on the motherboard were faulty by using a PCI-E Wireless card in the slots and the BIOS recognized it and it works.
I dont understand whats happened, it makes sense for one PCI-E slot to break but not all of them at once? It also doesnt make sense that my wireless card works in the slots, if they were truly broken. The issue is not with the GTX 770 as it works in my main machine.
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