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Tldr; Video card stopped giving signal during AC4 and a few days later the power supply went out. Now I wonder what caused what? And what do I begin to check?
Really unfortunate stuff has happened with my computer and now I am unsure how bad it is. It began when the video card stopped giving signal during gaming, mostly Assassins creed 4 – Black flag. I believe (though I don’t remember 100 %) it happened with another game at some point early on but after that only Ac4. In the middle of the game, the screen would go black, and then go searching for input and after a couple of seconds go to sleep. The only way I would get the monitor back on was to turn the computer off, using the power button, and, at least I think (and later concluded might be significant), turn off power to the computer. At first it happened very infrequently an in conjunction with specific actions in AC4 so I figured it was a bug with the game that somehow messed with graphics drivers. It sounds stupid now, but I didn’t think too hard into it.
However, after a few days, the issues started happening over and over again with AC4 and not in conjunction with the specific action. I tried turning all graphics options down as much as possible which did seem to prolong the amount of time I could play before the issue occurred, but no more than that. I checked the temperature of the GPU every minute or so until the issue occurred several times and it never reached the specified “during load” temperature, it was 61-62 degree Celsius at most. After googling other’s experiences with similar issues my take on it was that the graphics card was slowly dying and there was nothing I could do. I gave up on AC4 for now and used the computer for other games and surfing and no crashes happened. But 2 or 3 days later the computer randomly just died. Like there had a split-second power outage but nothing else had gone out. When I tried turning it on it turned on for a fraction of a second before dying. Now, nothing happens if I try to turn the computer on and I assume the power supply has gone to meet its ancestors.
So now I am trying to figure out, what came first? The video card issue? Or the power supply issue? Are they unrelated or did one cause the other? I hope that the video card was acting up due to power issues and is otherwise fine. But maybe the video card has been damaged due to the power issues? Or maybe it’s more likely that the power supply died due to a faulty video card eating too much power? The video card is less than two years old, but I bought it preowned, from someone who seemed reliable and stated it hadn’t been heavily used, but who knows. On the other hand, I reused the power supply from an earlier build, I believe it was at least five years old, and it wouldn’t be too surprising if it died on its own.
I could borrow a power supply from another build, but I am worried that the video card is a fault and will damage the new power supply too. What do I start with here? Any suggestions? Unfortunately, I don’t have the budget for a new graphics card at the moment, so buying a new one is out of the question currently.
Sorry that there is so much text. I wasn’t sure what was significant. Thanks in advance for any help!
Build specs:
Power supply: Antec 620 W: http://store.antec.com/highcurrentgamer/hcg-620m.html
Video card: MSI GTX 970: https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GTX-970-GAMING-4G.html
Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4: https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77%20Extreme4/
CPU: Intel i5 3570k: https://ark.intel.com/products/65520/Intel-Core-i5-3570K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8 gb DDR3: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Memory/Memory-High-Performance/Vengeance%C2%AE-%E2%80%94-8GB-Dual-Channel-DDR3-Memory-Kit/p/CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9
Hard drive: Seagate Firecuda 2 tb: https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/hdd/firecuda/#3-5-inch-specs
Tldr; Video card stopped giving signal during AC4 and a few days later the power supply went out. Now I wonder what caused what? And what do I begin to check?
Really unfortunate stuff has happened with my computer and now I am unsure how bad it is. It began when the video card stopped giving signal during gaming, mostly Assassins creed 4 – Black flag. I believe (though I don’t remember 100 %) it happened with another game at some point early on but after that only Ac4. In the middle of the game, the screen would go black, and then go searching for input and after a couple of seconds go to sleep. The only way I would get the monitor back on was to turn the computer off, using the power button, and, at least I think (and later concluded might be significant), turn off power to the computer. At first it happened very infrequently an in conjunction with specific actions in AC4 so I figured it was a bug with the game that somehow messed with graphics drivers. It sounds stupid now, but I didn’t think too hard into it.
However, after a few days, the issues started happening over and over again with AC4 and not in conjunction with the specific action. I tried turning all graphics options down as much as possible which did seem to prolong the amount of time I could play before the issue occurred, but no more than that. I checked the temperature of the GPU every minute or so until the issue occurred several times and it never reached the specified “during load” temperature, it was 61-62 degree Celsius at most. After googling other’s experiences with similar issues my take on it was that the graphics card was slowly dying and there was nothing I could do. I gave up on AC4 for now and used the computer for other games and surfing and no crashes happened. But 2 or 3 days later the computer randomly just died. Like there had a split-second power outage but nothing else had gone out. When I tried turning it on it turned on for a fraction of a second before dying. Now, nothing happens if I try to turn the computer on and I assume the power supply has gone to meet its ancestors.
So now I am trying to figure out, what came first? The video card issue? Or the power supply issue? Are they unrelated or did one cause the other? I hope that the video card was acting up due to power issues and is otherwise fine. But maybe the video card has been damaged due to the power issues? Or maybe it’s more likely that the power supply died due to a faulty video card eating too much power? The video card is less than two years old, but I bought it preowned, from someone who seemed reliable and stated it hadn’t been heavily used, but who knows. On the other hand, I reused the power supply from an earlier build, I believe it was at least five years old, and it wouldn’t be too surprising if it died on its own.
I could borrow a power supply from another build, but I am worried that the video card is a fault and will damage the new power supply too. What do I start with here? Any suggestions? Unfortunately, I don’t have the budget for a new graphics card at the moment, so buying a new one is out of the question currently.
Sorry that there is so much text. I wasn’t sure what was significant. Thanks in advance for any help!
Build specs:
Power supply: Antec 620 W: http://store.antec.com/highcurrentgamer/hcg-620m.html
Video card: MSI GTX 970: https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GTX-970-GAMING-4G.html
Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4: https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77%20Extreme4/
CPU: Intel i5 3570k: https://ark.intel.com/products/65520/Intel-Core-i5-3570K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8 gb DDR3: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Memory/Memory-High-Performance/Vengeance%C2%AE-%E2%80%94-8GB-Dual-Channel-DDR3-Memory-Kit/p/CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9
Hard drive: Seagate Firecuda 2 tb: https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/hdd/firecuda/#3-5-inch-specs
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