- Mar 10, 2018
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Hello,
I'm having a weird issue where I unplugged a USB PCI card I wasn't using and suddenly the 2 monitors I have no longer detect my computer. I'm positive this pci card is the issue as when I plugged it back in the monitors detected the gpu again.
In a backwards attempt, I cleared the cmos with the card uninstalled and now the computer isn't detected with or without the pci card in. However all other peripherals and components are working properly and the computer boots into windows 10 (even though I can't see it).
I believe it is some motherboard power issue so here are the relevant components:
Gigabyte Z370 Gaming 7 Motherboard
i7-8700k
Gigabyte Aorus WB 1080ti
Some cheap USB 3.0 PCI card I got from newegg.
Additionally, I was initially unplugging the PCI card because another hard drive wasn't being detected. After switching through all the ports, only sata port 1(maybe it was 2 I lost track) was working. I researched and found ports 4 and 5 were on a switch with the NVME slot I was using and slot 0 was on a switch with the pci slot my useless USB card was in. So I was trying to see if sata ports would become available with that slot open. But I only have two hard drives and all the other slots should be fine, so after this PCI mess I'm convinced there's some power allocation issues with this motherboard that I don't know about. Just a hunch so any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
I'm having a weird issue where I unplugged a USB PCI card I wasn't using and suddenly the 2 monitors I have no longer detect my computer. I'm positive this pci card is the issue as when I plugged it back in the monitors detected the gpu again.
In a backwards attempt, I cleared the cmos with the card uninstalled and now the computer isn't detected with or without the pci card in. However all other peripherals and components are working properly and the computer boots into windows 10 (even though I can't see it).
I believe it is some motherboard power issue so here are the relevant components:
Gigabyte Z370 Gaming 7 Motherboard
i7-8700k
Gigabyte Aorus WB 1080ti
Some cheap USB 3.0 PCI card I got from newegg.
Additionally, I was initially unplugging the PCI card because another hard drive wasn't being detected. After switching through all the ports, only sata port 1(maybe it was 2 I lost track) was working. I researched and found ports 4 and 5 were on a switch with the NVME slot I was using and slot 0 was on a switch with the pci slot my useless USB card was in. So I was trying to see if sata ports would become available with that slot open. But I only have two hard drives and all the other slots should be fine, so after this PCI mess I'm convinced there's some power allocation issues with this motherboard that I don't know about. Just a hunch so any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
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