I've had my PC since September of 2016 and everything was working fine up until now. My RX 480 died on me. It randomly stopped displaying to my monitor a couple times one day. I thought it was a bad DP cable at first until it finally gave out. I couldn't think of what caused this. The only thing I could think of at the moment was that i had recently updated the drivers that same morning.
I RMA'd the gpu and received a replacement (wasn't brand new). I didn't update to the recent drivers just in case that was the problem. It worked fine for about a week until it gave out during a game and left me with a gray screen. In both situations the gpus would still light up and the fans would spin but there was no display from any port. The PC wasn't recognizing it at all. I tried different PCIE slots and reinstalling with DDU among other things that didn't work. I'm still within the 90 day warranty period of the RMA so I'm going to send it back.
My question is what could be causing this? Is my PSU going bad? How can I tell?
Also, I've been using a window AC on the same breaker and I've also gotten a new monitor recently that draws slightly more power. I was wondering if this extra load to the circuit could be messing with the PSU's ability to draw it's own power in turn damaging the GPU? Not very tech savvy
and I really don't want this problem happening again.
pc specs:
Mobo: Asus TUF Sabertooth z170 s
CPU: i5-6600k
Cooler: Cryorig H7
GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 480 8GB OCL
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB DDR4 2400
PSU: Seasonic M12II 620w
Windows 10
I RMA'd the gpu and received a replacement (wasn't brand new). I didn't update to the recent drivers just in case that was the problem. It worked fine for about a week until it gave out during a game and left me with a gray screen. In both situations the gpus would still light up and the fans would spin but there was no display from any port. The PC wasn't recognizing it at all. I tried different PCIE slots and reinstalling with DDU among other things that didn't work. I'm still within the 90 day warranty period of the RMA so I'm going to send it back.
My question is what could be causing this? Is my PSU going bad? How can I tell?
Also, I've been using a window AC on the same breaker and I've also gotten a new monitor recently that draws slightly more power. I was wondering if this extra load to the circuit could be messing with the PSU's ability to draw it's own power in turn damaging the GPU? Not very tech savvy
and I really don't want this problem happening again.pc specs:
Mobo: Asus TUF Sabertooth z170 s
CPU: i5-6600k
Cooler: Cryorig H7
GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 480 8GB OCL
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB DDR4 2400
PSU: Seasonic M12II 620w
Windows 10
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