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    System stopped cold - PSU or MOBO?

    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?
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    System stopped cold - PSU or MOBO?

    I 🤨 Interesting.
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    System stopped cold - PSU or MOBO?

    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)...
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    System stopped cold - PSU or MOBO?

    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...
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    System stopped cold - PSU or MOBO?

    Just how much do you think it cost me to swap in the old video card I said I had?
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    System stopped cold - PSU or MOBO?

    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.
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    System stopped cold - PSU or MOBO?

    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.
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    System stopped cold - PSU or MOBO?

    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.
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    System stopped cold - PSU or MOBO?

    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...
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    Before Making a Thread About Buying a PSU....

    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...
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    Before Making a Thread About Buying a PSU....

    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...
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