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I purchased a new graphics card from amazon, the ASUS Strix GTX 970, and it arrived this Monday the 29th of August. I installed it when it arrived.
Immediately, there were no issues. However, soon I discovered that my computer was creating a burning smell, like maybe burning plastic or dust. This only happened when the card was under load: playing GTA V or giving it work for mersenne.org.
After a while, I got worried, as the burning smell continued. I opened up the case and inspected the card for any labels I missed (as per a thread I found on this forum), any loose connections, perhaps any wires touching something, but there wasn't anything significant I found.
So I put the card back in, and decided to ignore it, and try to return it if it broke. I was relieved because the burning smell started to fade away, but then my computer powered off. When I tried to switch it on, the fans spun for half a second and stopped. Reading more forum posts on this site, I checked all the connections, cleaned the dust out, replaced the mobo battery, and miraculously it was able to power on again.
Everything was normal, and I decided to be ballsy and try put the GPU under load again. After maybe 2 minutes the computer powered off again.
Again, reading forum posts here, I decided to try the "paperclip test" on my PSU (google it if you don't know what it is, there's tonnes of posts about it). Finally, some insight: when I switched the power on with the paperclip in, the fans spinned and then stopped, just as before. So, conclusion: PSU is busted...sort of, because for some reason doing the paperclip test allowed the computer to power on again once everything had been reconnected...(this happened twice)
So, I should buy a new PSU, right? But I'm worried that there's something wrong with the card, and that it somehow broke the PSU...reading reviews for my PSU on amazon, there were a LOT of people complaining that the PSU "exploded" after a few months, so maybe I just bought a bad model/brand...I'm worried that if I buy a new PSU, the new graphics card will break it...
Should I:
- Scrap this PSU and buy a new one
- Bring the desktop in to a repair shop nearby (they also built this PC) and see what they think
- Something else?
Here's the build:
CPU: Intel Core i5 3.33 Ghz
Motherboard: Intel DH5TC
RAM: 8GB 1333(Mhz?)
GPU: ASUS Strix GTX 970 (old one was the NVidia GTX 550 Ti)
PSU: "Alpine 700W PSU 120mm Red Fan"
Drives:
- Liteon 24x SATA DVD RW
- 1TB Sata hard drive
- 120gb Samsung 850 EVO SSD (System drive)
OS: Windows 7 Home premium 64bit
Advice would be appreciated!
Immediately, there were no issues. However, soon I discovered that my computer was creating a burning smell, like maybe burning plastic or dust. This only happened when the card was under load: playing GTA V or giving it work for mersenne.org.
After a while, I got worried, as the burning smell continued. I opened up the case and inspected the card for any labels I missed (as per a thread I found on this forum), any loose connections, perhaps any wires touching something, but there wasn't anything significant I found.
So I put the card back in, and decided to ignore it, and try to return it if it broke. I was relieved because the burning smell started to fade away, but then my computer powered off. When I tried to switch it on, the fans spun for half a second and stopped. Reading more forum posts on this site, I checked all the connections, cleaned the dust out, replaced the mobo battery, and miraculously it was able to power on again.
Everything was normal, and I decided to be ballsy and try put the GPU under load again. After maybe 2 minutes the computer powered off again.
Again, reading forum posts here, I decided to try the "paperclip test" on my PSU (google it if you don't know what it is, there's tonnes of posts about it). Finally, some insight: when I switched the power on with the paperclip in, the fans spinned and then stopped, just as before. So, conclusion: PSU is busted...sort of, because for some reason doing the paperclip test allowed the computer to power on again once everything had been reconnected...(this happened twice)
So, I should buy a new PSU, right? But I'm worried that there's something wrong with the card, and that it somehow broke the PSU...reading reviews for my PSU on amazon, there were a LOT of people complaining that the PSU "exploded" after a few months, so maybe I just bought a bad model/brand...I'm worried that if I buy a new PSU, the new graphics card will break it...
Should I:
- Scrap this PSU and buy a new one
- Bring the desktop in to a repair shop nearby (they also built this PC) and see what they think
- Something else?
Here's the build:
CPU: Intel Core i5 3.33 Ghz
Motherboard: Intel DH5TC
RAM: 8GB 1333(Mhz?)
GPU: ASUS Strix GTX 970 (old one was the NVidia GTX 550 Ti)
PSU: "Alpine 700W PSU 120mm Red Fan"
Drives:
- Liteon 24x SATA DVD RW
- 1TB Sata hard drive
- 120gb Samsung 850 EVO SSD (System drive)
OS: Windows 7 Home premium 64bit
Advice would be appreciated!
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