So yesterday afternoon I got on my computer to do my normal things (gaming, watching livestreams, etc...) when out of nowhere my PC just completely shut down. At first I didn't really think much of it and went to reboot it, but when I did that nothing happened but I did notice the led in my power button dimly lit.
I was looking around on some forums and such and saw that it could be either that my psu is not generating sufficient power or it could be a problem with my mobo/gpu.
The first thing I did was I took out my gpu from the PCI-E port and disconnected the 6 pin power cord. After that I went to turn on the PC and it booted fine. Next I decided to try to put my GPU into the PCI-E but with no power this time and tried to boot but again nothing happened - even without power to the GPU.
I took the GPU from my brothers computer and tried the same thing (plugging the GPU into the pci-e with no power) and voila my PC booted fine. Also I couldn't get power to his card since his is weird and doesn't have the same 6 pin as mine does.
So now I'm really confused and feel like my gpu is just dead and is causing problems with booting my computer.
I have an Alienware X51 R1 that has not been upgraded.
Specs:
CPU - Intel® Core™ I7-3770 Quad Core (8MB Cache, up to 3.40GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
RAM - DDR3 PC3-10666 NON-ECC (1333 MHz) 16 Gb
PSU - 330W Dell Alienware X51 i7 AC Adapter Charger Power Cord
GPU - Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
Mobo - Stock Alienware Mini-itx (not sure exactly what it is as I cannot find it)
Also as sort of a FYI; I cannot test my gpu in another computer as my brothers computer doesn't have the space for it and I don't know anyone else that would let me test. (May make things a bit more complicated I guess :/ sorry)
I was looking around on some forums and such and saw that it could be either that my psu is not generating sufficient power or it could be a problem with my mobo/gpu.
The first thing I did was I took out my gpu from the PCI-E port and disconnected the 6 pin power cord. After that I went to turn on the PC and it booted fine. Next I decided to try to put my GPU into the PCI-E but with no power this time and tried to boot but again nothing happened - even without power to the GPU.
I took the GPU from my brothers computer and tried the same thing (plugging the GPU into the pci-e with no power) and voila my PC booted fine. Also I couldn't get power to his card since his is weird and doesn't have the same 6 pin as mine does.
So now I'm really confused and feel like my gpu is just dead and is causing problems with booting my computer.
I have an Alienware X51 R1 that has not been upgraded.
Specs:
CPU - Intel® Core™ I7-3770 Quad Core (8MB Cache, up to 3.40GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
RAM - DDR3 PC3-10666 NON-ECC (1333 MHz) 16 Gb
PSU - 330W Dell Alienware X51 i7 AC Adapter Charger Power Cord
GPU - Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
Mobo - Stock Alienware Mini-itx (not sure exactly what it is as I cannot find it)
Also as sort of a FYI; I cannot test my gpu in another computer as my brothers computer doesn't have the space for it and I don't know anyone else that would let me test. (May make things a bit more complicated I guess :/ sorry)
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