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GPU fans at full on black screen

atthegates

atthegates

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Just installed a 4070 super and new PSU . Was working fine. I changed the fan curve to kick in at 75% when it reached high temps. Now At boot I get a post beep. Then the fans go 100% and all I have is a black screen. Very worried and wondering what's up?
 
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Turned off precision boot overdrive in the bios and can get into the desktop now. Can you folks who know more than me about this stuff give me a rundown of what I should do now with the GPU? Where the fans should be at? What settings to adjust so it doesn't happen again?
 
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Randomly did it again while i was browsing the desktop. Fans ramped up to max, pc stayed on and the screen went black. I updated the bios and chipset to the latest versions. Seems ok at the moment but i'm scared to try any games on it now. This is why people stay away from pc's. Have to turn into troubleshoot timmy now to try and get this sorted.
 
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Haha hope you're right mate. If not I appreciate it anyway. You're always trying to help out and the community as a whole on here is brilliant. Would be a very lonely place if we didn't have this forum to consult when we're all trying to get some answers.
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No problem fella. Even if I'm not right, as you say this is a good community and you'd work it out.

But don't be worried, whether it's a component itself that needs swapping out or a software solution that you need to get to the bottom of, it can always be worked out with tech.

Much easier than dealing with people :D
 
Oh and if you have updated the BIOS, you may still need to pull the battery or short the jumper after doing so. So you may still have to try that if things aren't yet resolved. It's normal practice to have to do that after a BIOS update.
 
heatonpkmassive said:
No problem fella. Even if I'm not right, as you say this is a good community and you'd work it out.

But don't be worried, whether it's a component itself that needs swapping out or a software solution that you need to get to the bottom of, it can always be worked out with tech.

Much easier than dealing with people :D
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Lol yeah much easier than that I'm sure
 
Happening again now. I've noticed it seems to happen when I'm using monitoring programs like afterburner. Had afterburner open when I was browsing the desktop and it happened twice. Insanely annoying.
 
atthegates said:
No but I have it set on the default fan curve for cooling on there.
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Click the "reset" button within afterburner and then close it down completely or even uninstall it.
It shouldn't be causing any issues of itself but this will remove it as a possibility.

A card going black screen and fans going 100% can indicate a dying card, I doubt it's something you did.
 
andybird123 said:
Click the "reset" button within afterburner and then close it down completely or even uninstall it.
It shouldn't be causing any issues of itself but this will remove it as a possibility.

A card going black screen and fans going 100% can indicate a dying card, I doubt it's something you did.
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I reset afterburner. Hope to God it's not the card dying. It's a new 4070 super I bought in December. I opened the case to give a look around and check all the connections and now it won't boot. Just gives me 4 post beeps. One long three short. At my wits end with it.
 
atthegates said:
I reset afterburner. Hope to God it's not the card dying. It's a new 4070 super I bought in December. I opened the case to give a look around and check all the connections and now it won't boot. Just gives me 4 post beeps. One long three short. At my wits end with it.
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What motherboard is it?

One long three short can mean RAM issue, you could try reseating both RAM and GPU just to check.
 
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andybird123 said:
What motherboard is it?

One long three short can mean RAM issue, you could try reseating both RAM and GPU just to check.
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Ok thanks will try reseating the ram again. Motherboard is an X570 Aorus elite. Bios and chipset updated to the latest version. Reseated the gpu a few times already but the ram not as much so will try it.
 
atthegates said:
Ok thanks will try reseating the ram again. Motherboard is an X570 Aorus elite. Bios and chipset updated to the latest version. Reseated the gpu a few times already but the ram not as much so will try it.
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yeah, I mean typically if its RAM it either works or it doesn't, so I don't think its the source of the black screen issues, but if its refusing to boot then its worth investigating, also you could try removing the GPU entirely and see if it boots from the iGPU?
 
andybird123 said:
yeah, I mean typically if its RAM it either works or it doesn't, so I don't think its the source of the black screen issues, but if its refusing to boot then its worth investigating, also you could try removing the GPU entirely and see if it boots from the iGPU?
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Reseated the ram and it booted fine. Tried out some games, hasn't happened again yet. Just seems very volatile at the moment though. Like it could happen at any time. Even though it worked after reseating the ram I don't think that's the problem either?
 
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Reseated the ram and it booted fine. Tried out some games, hasn't happened again yet. Just seems very volatile at the moment though. Like it could happen at any time. Even though it worked after reseating the ram I don't think that's the problem either?
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I don't think Ram would cause the black screen issue.

If it does happen again then the next step would be to reload afterburner and actually try reducing the power limit or reducing the memory clock (one or the other, not both at the same time) to see if that affects things.
 
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andybird123 said:
I don't think Ram would cause the black screen issue.

If it does happen again then the next step would be to reload afterburner and actually try reducing the power limit or reducing the memory clock (one or the other, not both at the same time) to see if that affects things.
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I will try that if it happens again. With PC's it's a constant battle it seems. Thanks for all your help with this mate.
 
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