Well, the serial number on the card certainly is easily accessible these days!
I gotta ask: are you really a dead parrot, or just Pinin’ away for the Fjords?
An EVGA 970GTX.
Haven’t pulled the cover/fan shroud off to see in it, yet. No discoloration on the bottom, but I would think that would be unlikely.
I have a multimeter; a short is easy to read, and an open circuit equally so, but what Ohm range is indicative of the circuit being (potentially)...
No, hearing people’s operational experience is a good thing. Im gathering from this that video cards are a more common cause of the set of failure symptoms I had (albeit without your sparks), than what one might think.
Good point. Although since the system won’t POST when that vid card goes...
I thought that you had a low likelihood of being right, but I had an old video card to pop in, and things are running now. Thanks.
If only....recently moved to a town of 5-6000 residents. No such place here.
Thank you for the reply.
It has been some years since I visited this forum. As I recall, it had a sticky on power supply quality evaluations. I can’t seem to find it now. Was that thread too cumbersome to maintain?
The PSU is (or was) an OCZ GXS 600, btw.
Further , everything in the case is of 2014-2017 vintage except for a new Samsung EVO 970 .m2 NVMe SSD.
Motherboard is Gigabyte 170 chipset Gaming Series 7, LGA 1151. PSU is an OCZ that I haven’t yet checked the model of.
I was gaming last night, with no issues, maybe a frame stutter or two, when everything quietly went dead - no smoke, no smells, no CPU, GPU or case fans. Just the blue power light the case front panel. I felt the components, nothing felt particularly hot.
Upon attempting to restart, all that...
Consider the following power supply, an Enermax Noisetaker ATX 12V Ver 2.01:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-103-459&depa=1
A user review in the link says the 20/24 pin adapter is built into the 24-pin connector - slip off the portion with the last four pins...
I have an "Award" brand PSU, 400W. Any knowledge of this brand?
It runs hot, powering my Athlon 2600+, ATI 9800 Pro, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, single hard drive, single CD-RW unit, even when e-mailing or web browsing. During heavy gaming (NR 2003) I will get brief video stutters, and CTD when...