- Apr 18, 2015
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Hello,
First off, I'm no expert on computers or graphics cards, that I leave to my father. But I'll do my best, so bear with me.
OK, yesterday I was in the middle of playing Metal Gear Solid V, a very well optimized game that runs smoothly and doesn't demand much from our graphics card, when the computer suddenly shut down. I tried rebooting, but with no success. I disconnected everything, removed one of the side lids to see if anything was out of place (not that I could tell, like I said, not an expert). With the computer back in place and everything reconnected, I tried again hoping for the best. Nothing.
I asked my father to see what was wrong. Initially, he thought it was our power source, but then he told me it was our graphics card (Nividia Geforce GTX970 GDDR 4GB, I think). When he removed the graphics card, the computer booted up normally. But when he reinstalled it, the computer refused to turn on. I asked him his opinion why the graphics card wasn't working and how it affecting the system, but he wasn't sure.
Thoughts?
Our system specs:
Nvidia Geforce GTX970
Intel Quad Core i7 2600k 3.4GHz
8GB RAM
Windows 7 64-bit
1920x1080
First off, I'm no expert on computers or graphics cards, that I leave to my father. But I'll do my best, so bear with me.
OK, yesterday I was in the middle of playing Metal Gear Solid V, a very well optimized game that runs smoothly and doesn't demand much from our graphics card, when the computer suddenly shut down. I tried rebooting, but with no success. I disconnected everything, removed one of the side lids to see if anything was out of place (not that I could tell, like I said, not an expert). With the computer back in place and everything reconnected, I tried again hoping for the best. Nothing.
I asked my father to see what was wrong. Initially, he thought it was our power source, but then he told me it was our graphics card (Nividia Geforce GTX970 GDDR 4GB, I think). When he removed the graphics card, the computer booted up normally. But when he reinstalled it, the computer refused to turn on. I asked him his opinion why the graphics card wasn't working and how it affecting the system, but he wasn't sure.
Thoughts?
Our system specs:
Nvidia Geforce GTX970
Intel Quad Core i7 2600k 3.4GHz
8GB RAM
Windows 7 64-bit
1920x1080
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