Hi,
Just purchased a MSI TwinFrozr2 560ti w/ 2gddr5 to upgrade my old EVGA 9800gt card. Start up was fine with the 560 in but a heard a foreboding crackle followed but and abrupt power down while I was installing the drivers and afterburner program for the 560. I sniffed the tower and detected a slight fragrance or burning. Couldn't tell you exactly where it was coming from though.
At any rate, turned off psu, unplugged everything and then let it rest a few minutes before checking connections and for blatant scorch marks or whatever. Finding no faulty connections or parts still ablaze, I plugged it back in and booted it up. The LEDs on my mobo indicated everything was normal as far as power and ram goes, and there was no unusual post data, despite the fact the monitor refused to turn on and I got a weird little warbling beep from the mobo instead of the normal start up beep.
So now, I switched back to my 9800gt and booted the pc with no problems whatsoever, checked all my hard drives too, as I know they often are effected even by minor psu problems, and they are all fine. I'm really stumped why the pc wouldn’t boot properly if the problem was just the new gpu or why everything else is still functioning properly if the problem was the PSU.
So I would really appreciate some sort of diagnosis, as I am afraid to keep using my current PSU, but I don’t want to replace it unnecessarily.
Here's all my pcs components besides the aforementioned gpus:
EVGA x58 SLI LE mobo
Intel i7-920 @2.67 (not oc'd)
Corsair TX750W psu
Mushkin blackline 4gbx3
A slew of HDDs
Just purchased a MSI TwinFrozr2 560ti w/ 2gddr5 to upgrade my old EVGA 9800gt card. Start up was fine with the 560 in but a heard a foreboding crackle followed but and abrupt power down while I was installing the drivers and afterburner program for the 560. I sniffed the tower and detected a slight fragrance or burning. Couldn't tell you exactly where it was coming from though.
At any rate, turned off psu, unplugged everything and then let it rest a few minutes before checking connections and for blatant scorch marks or whatever. Finding no faulty connections or parts still ablaze, I plugged it back in and booted it up. The LEDs on my mobo indicated everything was normal as far as power and ram goes, and there was no unusual post data, despite the fact the monitor refused to turn on and I got a weird little warbling beep from the mobo instead of the normal start up beep.
So now, I switched back to my 9800gt and booted the pc with no problems whatsoever, checked all my hard drives too, as I know they often are effected even by minor psu problems, and they are all fine. I'm really stumped why the pc wouldn’t boot properly if the problem was just the new gpu or why everything else is still functioning properly if the problem was the PSU.
So I would really appreciate some sort of diagnosis, as I am afraid to keep using my current PSU, but I don’t want to replace it unnecessarily.
Here's all my pcs components besides the aforementioned gpus:
EVGA x58 SLI LE mobo
Intel i7-920 @2.67 (not oc'd)
Corsair TX750W psu
Mushkin blackline 4gbx3
A slew of HDDs
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