- Nov 15, 2016
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tldr: PC fails to POST 90% of time, wondering if it's motherboard or graphics card dying and what tests I can do to find out (see imgur link for more info)
For the past two weeks my PC has been having issues turning on. At first thought it seemed like my motherboard is going bad but now I'm having second thoughts.
90% of the time when I boot up my PC it fails to POST. It's gives me multiple different codes to check, usually clear cmos, reinstall SATA, or reinstall PCI. After messing with it, unplugging and replugging hardware, clearing CMOS, it usually powers back on and boots to windows just fine with no errors until I shut down. When booting to windows, it will occasionally power off and restart, which led me to believe it may be my power supply and not my motherboard.
I grabbed a spare 750w power supply and put that in my PC last night, booted up just fine and all seemed well until I restarted.. Failed to post..
After getting it to work again, ran for about 20 minutes and then my screens went black, primary monitor booted up again, secondary monitor stayed powered off. Weird green lines started showing on my screen looking like the matrix, and when I went to my graphics card driver, it did not show up as a GTX 1080 (pics below)
https://imgur.com/a/ML7GI
After all these trials and changes, I'm starting to lean more towards my graphics card dying than my motherboard, I'm wondering what further tests I could do to be sure. The card is no older than 3 months, and the motherboard is 2.5 years old.
Specs:
ASRock x99 Extreme6
Intel i7 5820k
EVGA GTX 1080 SC
16GB (4x4) GSkill Ripjaw DDR4
600w Corsair power supply (swapped currently with Thermaltake 750w)
San disk 125gb SSD
Western digital 1TB HDD
For the past two weeks my PC has been having issues turning on. At first thought it seemed like my motherboard is going bad but now I'm having second thoughts.
90% of the time when I boot up my PC it fails to POST. It's gives me multiple different codes to check, usually clear cmos, reinstall SATA, or reinstall PCI. After messing with it, unplugging and replugging hardware, clearing CMOS, it usually powers back on and boots to windows just fine with no errors until I shut down. When booting to windows, it will occasionally power off and restart, which led me to believe it may be my power supply and not my motherboard.
I grabbed a spare 750w power supply and put that in my PC last night, booted up just fine and all seemed well until I restarted.. Failed to post..
After getting it to work again, ran for about 20 minutes and then my screens went black, primary monitor booted up again, secondary monitor stayed powered off. Weird green lines started showing on my screen looking like the matrix, and when I went to my graphics card driver, it did not show up as a GTX 1080 (pics below)
https://imgur.com/a/ML7GI
After all these trials and changes, I'm starting to lean more towards my graphics card dying than my motherboard, I'm wondering what further tests I could do to be sure. The card is no older than 3 months, and the motherboard is 2.5 years old.
Specs:
ASRock x99 Extreme6
Intel i7 5820k
EVGA GTX 1080 SC
16GB (4x4) GSkill Ripjaw DDR4
600w Corsair power supply (swapped currently with Thermaltake 750w)
San disk 125gb SSD
Western digital 1TB HDD
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