My computer crashed last night as though it lost power, I smelled a bit of burning, and the power supply felt very warm. I took the PS out this morning, and brought it to a store. They tested it and confirmed it was fried. Bought a new one, and brought it home. Computer starts up again now, but I get no display. I checked, and the fan isn't even running on my card. This is an old card (GTX 570) and I was using a single cable with 2 8 pin (6+2, using only the 6-pins) that came with the new power supply. I tried plugging it into multiple outlets on the power supply (modular, so there's a VGA1 & VGA2). I also tried seating the card in 2 different slots. My motherboard has an onboard graphics card, so I plugged my monitor into that instead and it worked fine.
I figured maybe when the PS went it fried my graphics card too. Talked to a guy at the store, he said it would be that for sure ("no need to test it"). I bought a new graphics card - GTX 1060 3GB mini. The fan on it also won't start spinning. It's using a different cable (1 8pin 6+2 cable, just the 6 plugged in), and I have tried seating it in different slots too. I'm at a loss...even if the motherboard's fried in a way that only affects PCI-E slots (if that's possible), shouldn't the power run the fan on the graphics cards? As a last ditch option, I tried updating drivers, but "NVIDIA Installer cannot continue; This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware." Any ideas on next steps?
I figured maybe when the PS went it fried my graphics card too. Talked to a guy at the store, he said it would be that for sure ("no need to test it"). I bought a new graphics card - GTX 1060 3GB mini. The fan on it also won't start spinning. It's using a different cable (1 8pin 6+2 cable, just the 6 plugged in), and I have tried seating it in different slots too. I'm at a loss...even if the motherboard's fried in a way that only affects PCI-E slots (if that's possible), shouldn't the power run the fan on the graphics cards? As a last ditch option, I tried updating drivers, but "NVIDIA Installer cannot continue; This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware." Any ideas on next steps?
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