- Sep 27, 2017
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A couple of days ago my PC crashed and would not reboot. It would turn on only for the graphics card to light up for a few seconds, and then shut off again, repeating this cycle.
Suspecting it was the psu or mother board battery, I was able to re-boot after disconnecting and reconnecting both.
However the PC froze again half an hour later.
I then stripped the PC putting it back together piece by piece, and realized that everything ran smoothly with the graphics card disconnected, and running off of the integrated graphics.
I have since gotten a refund on the graphics card, however I am still unsure as to whether it is entirely at fault, as it still works after re-installing, only to crash again several hours later.
Could the PSU not be pushing enough power to the graphics card, forcing the PC to freeze?
SPECS
I7-4790K
Gigabyte NVIDIA gtx970
Corsair vengeance pro series 16GB
EVGA supernova 750w
MSI Z97 gaming motherboard
Suspecting it was the psu or mother board battery, I was able to re-boot after disconnecting and reconnecting both.
However the PC froze again half an hour later.
I then stripped the PC putting it back together piece by piece, and realized that everything ran smoothly with the graphics card disconnected, and running off of the integrated graphics.
I have since gotten a refund on the graphics card, however I am still unsure as to whether it is entirely at fault, as it still works after re-installing, only to crash again several hours later.
Could the PSU not be pushing enough power to the graphics card, forcing the PC to freeze?
SPECS
I7-4790K
Gigabyte NVIDIA gtx970
Corsair vengeance pro series 16GB
EVGA supernova 750w
MSI Z97 gaming motherboard
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