I'm typing this on mobile so please bear with me.
A few weeks ago I'd purchased a Gtx 970 from the US.
My rig was an i5 2500, Intel DH67BL motherboard, 8 gigs Corsair Vengeance RAM and a Seasonic S12 520w PSU. I was told I'd be fine even with the added draw of the new card.
Well, yesterday I got the card in my hands and it didn't fit my cabinet at all so I had to go out and buy a new one, a Deepcool Tesseract.
One by one I assembled everything, looking at manuals and YouTube videos and even got some decent cable management going. I also replaced my old power cables and surge protector.
The PC booted on first try and everything seemed to run fine. I fired up the Witcher 3 and I felt like I had slightly low fps. My friend with a similar rig advised me to update the BIOS since everything else was up to date. I did that and checked the game again, this time with Afterburner monitoring temperature, usage and FPS. I was getting 55-60 on Ultra with a GPU usage of 99%. Lowering a few settings made the frame rate rock solid at 60 fps and usage went down to about 70%. Temperature was around the 80C mark if I remember correctly. Recorded a small clip using Shadowplay and it worked fine. I was happy.
Then I alt tabbed to check Facebook for a bit when my the computer randomly shut down and didn't boot up at all. I waited around twenty minutes and tried again, no luck.
Since then I've tried the following:
Replacing power cables
Unplugging GPU
Reconnecting CPU and 24 pin connectors
The "paper clip" trick, albeit with a wire.
No luck. The fans don't spin even slightly. The motherboard LED inside comes on when I connect the cables to the PSU, but it stays on even after I turn the switch off to the O position, only to go away on its own minutes later.
I'm suspecting the PSU is the problem, but here's where it gets slightly complicated. I had a similar issue a few months ago when my computer didn't boot. Took it to a repair shop and they told me it was a problem with the motherboard and fixed it for me. It worked for a while but honestly, I think I got ripped off there because it didn't boot again a few weeks later. This time it was just the power connector from the case's front panel going bad. I fixed that myself by rewiring it to the reset button to turn on the computer. Everything worked okay for a few months until one day my old GPU just failed while I was playing a game of dota. I took it to another guy who tested everything. He said the PSU was fine but the GPU had failed. The computer booted and ran okay without the GPU.
I thought buying a new GPU would solve everything. Turns out it didn't. Now I don't know if it's my PSU or the motherboard or God forbid, my brand new GPU.
A few weeks ago I'd purchased a Gtx 970 from the US.
My rig was an i5 2500, Intel DH67BL motherboard, 8 gigs Corsair Vengeance RAM and a Seasonic S12 520w PSU. I was told I'd be fine even with the added draw of the new card.
Well, yesterday I got the card in my hands and it didn't fit my cabinet at all so I had to go out and buy a new one, a Deepcool Tesseract.
One by one I assembled everything, looking at manuals and YouTube videos and even got some decent cable management going. I also replaced my old power cables and surge protector.
The PC booted on first try and everything seemed to run fine. I fired up the Witcher 3 and I felt like I had slightly low fps. My friend with a similar rig advised me to update the BIOS since everything else was up to date. I did that and checked the game again, this time with Afterburner monitoring temperature, usage and FPS. I was getting 55-60 on Ultra with a GPU usage of 99%. Lowering a few settings made the frame rate rock solid at 60 fps and usage went down to about 70%. Temperature was around the 80C mark if I remember correctly. Recorded a small clip using Shadowplay and it worked fine. I was happy.
Then I alt tabbed to check Facebook for a bit when my the computer randomly shut down and didn't boot up at all. I waited around twenty minutes and tried again, no luck.
Since then I've tried the following:
Replacing power cables
Unplugging GPU
Reconnecting CPU and 24 pin connectors
The "paper clip" trick, albeit with a wire.
No luck. The fans don't spin even slightly. The motherboard LED inside comes on when I connect the cables to the PSU, but it stays on even after I turn the switch off to the O position, only to go away on its own minutes later.
I'm suspecting the PSU is the problem, but here's where it gets slightly complicated. I had a similar issue a few months ago when my computer didn't boot. Took it to a repair shop and they told me it was a problem with the motherboard and fixed it for me. It worked for a while but honestly, I think I got ripped off there because it didn't boot again a few weeks later. This time it was just the power connector from the case's front panel going bad. I fixed that myself by rewiring it to the reset button to turn on the computer. Everything worked okay for a few months until one day my old GPU just failed while I was playing a game of dota. I took it to another guy who tested everything. He said the PSU was fine but the GPU had failed. The computer booted and ran okay without the GPU.
I thought buying a new GPU would solve everything. Turns out it didn't. Now I don't know if it's my PSU or the motherboard or God forbid, my brand new GPU.
