Tom's Hardware: Topic New video card, no system power. Please help.
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I just installed a 512mb Gigabyte 9800gt into a system that was previously just using an on-board GPU. Its a brand new video card, was working perfectly fine for about 3 hours with the card installed nicely, then my pc just shut off unexpectedly.
If i slot in the 9800gt and plug in the 6-pin power cable from the PSU, then turn on the pc, absolutely nothing will happen, no power anywhere (sometimes the CPU fan will spin for a split second and power off again). If i unplug the 6-pin power cable but keep the video card in the pci-e slot it will boot up, but it takes a while for the monitor to display the boot process if i plug my monitor into the on-board GPU.
The pc works perfectly fine if i take the video card out completely and just use on-board.
What's gone wrong? 
Please help!
PS: and yes i went through the checklist at http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] -checklist
EDIT: imo this seems like a PSU issue, but then it wouldn't have lasted for those 3 hours if it was would it?
Message edited by shakalaka on 02-12-2009 at 12:46:57 PM
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