PC cycling power

I have seen a computer that would do the same thing every time you touched it the wrong way.

Without fail every time it was worked on in the inside like replacing the PSU or something it would have this problem.

The fix every time was just to push hard on the RAM and it would start working again.

Bad boards are the most common failure point in new builds. As you would expect, since everything goes through the mother board. I've had my share.

I will try that in the morning. I did do that the last time this happened which didn't fix it but i'll try again.

BTW, Clutchc, I would rate the RAM and the PSUs as more often the points of failure in new computers instead of motherboards.

It would definitely make sense to try playing around with the RAM before you go RMAing things at this point.

Try it with just 1 stick and try it in each slot, then try the other one in each slot.

- edit - Dont forget to push hard on it like I said before.

Update:

I RMA'd the board because I took my PSU and RAM and slapped them onto my old mobo. Powers up fine (i'm posting from the PC now).

My motherboard must have failed sometime in the past month or so.

More like you destroyed your video card on day 1. Furmark does that.

That is why Nvidia builds into their newest drivers code that will keep the video card from working at more than 50% while Furmark is running.

The manufacturer shouldn't have to pay for you blowing up your own video card with carlessness and I hope they don't. It clearly says in the Furmark website that this program can destroy good video cards and that sounds exactly like what happened to me.

How about here

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/for [...] amage.html

In that thread it talks about people using Furmark to destroy a video card on purpose so they can get another one for free with the warranty.

Those people aren't happy about it either in that thread.

Or how about here

http://www.geeks3d.com/20081124/fu [...] available/

Nice little comment from there "The win32 installer is the only simple solution I found to be sure that the user reads and accepts the EULA. Because FurMark is not a kind software: it can destroy your graphics card… VLC can’t kill your graphics card…

I’m sure there are some mirrors that host a zipped version of FurMark…"

And how about here

http://www.overclock.net/t/864322/ [...] onsumption

As we all have learned at this point the GTX580 has both hardware and software (driver) influenced power monitoring features. As it detects high current usage, it will purpose cut the clocks by 50% to decrease consumption. This is not an issue for gamers but this has been an absolute headache for reviewers as most still could not unlock the full power of the card with applications like Furmark and OCCT.

Nvidia uses a new technology dubbed Advanced Power Management on the GTX 580. It is used for monitoring power consumption and performing power capping in order to protect the card from excessive power draw.

Dedicated hardware circuity on the GTX 580 graphics card performs real time monitoring of current and voltage. The graphics driver monitors the power levels and will dynamically adjust performance in certain stress appllications such as FurMark and OCCT if power levels axceed the cards spec.

Power monitoring adjust performance only if power specs are exceeded and if the application is one of the apps Nvidia has defined in their driver to monitor such as FurMark and OCCT. This should not significantly affect gaming performance, and Nvidia indeed claims that no game so far has managed to wake this mechanism from its slumber. For now, it is not possible to turn off power capping.


So yes, everything I said is factual and you 99% likely did blow up a perfectly good card by doing something stupid.

Where I am from, if people break something they pay for it themselves, not go around asking other people to pay for it. Take some personal responsibility.

I guess every forum has to have someone like that on it.

Not like all this stuff isn't well known by people that have some idea what is going on in the world of computers.

The last thing we need are people on here using Furmark because you are doing it and they blow up their cards too.

Sorry if its not sugar coated enough for you, but you are indirectly hurting other people and it is not cool and I don't condone that.

Don't go around making a big deal about how you are indirectly harming others and NP.