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GPU causing Power Surges

irh1

irh1

irh1

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Just replaced m/board and cpu. Once NVidia driver installed, motherboard shutdown, reporting gpu power surges (possibly the cause of the original issue which caused old pc to die). Currently running gpu-less, with no issues (other than gaming of course).

GPU is watercooled GTX 590. Think I know the answer, but is this now dead / irrecoverable? although a bit old, hadn't wanted to replace it just yet.
 
PSU is Corsair AX1200i. About 14 months old

Any thoughts on how to tell if its one or the other (without buying replacements)
 
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Do you have another PC the card can be used in? Or a PSU you can source from a friend? You could try different PCI-E cables from the PSU too.
 
I have an old 295. Not quite the same power draw, but definitely sounds worth a shot. No shortage of cables.

Will test.
 
Sounds good, hopefully if you mix n match enough you'll be able to find a common problem. May even want to try a different PCI-E slot on the MB but seeing as its new I doubt it'll be borked, updating MB bios might be worth a shot too.
 
I had a 6850 that did the same thing, the card was screwed. In the end it wouldnt work but it would cause the circuit to trip with the card installed.
 
I added the GTX295 into the same PCIE slot, and that exhibited the same behaviour. This time the m/board pointed the finger firmly at the PSU. So I've contacted Corsair - it's supposed to have a seven year warranty - so guess we'll see what they have to say
 
As Gareth said, it's virtual mutli-rail - however when it's the PSU at fault, does it work like a multi-rail, or a single one? Pretty sure the faulty bit of the PSU was in the PCIe bit, and also pretty sure with no decent antisurge protection on my last board, it did my last cpu over. But that's speculation, I'm no expert.
 
irh1 said:
As Gareth said, it's virtual mutli-rail - however when it's the PSU at fault, does it work like a multi-rail, or a single one? Pretty sure the faulty bit of the PSU was in the PCIe bit, and also pretty sure with no decent antisurge protection on my last board, it did my last cpu over. But that's speculation, I'm no expert.
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tbh putting it in one big single rail mode is better.

i'd always say having one single rail is better than mutli-rail
 
gareth170 said:
he means on the Corsair AX1200i software. do u see any power drops on the power graph?
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What he said .... :D:D:D

Load the Corsair Link software and click on the power tab and make sure you are seeing the PSU data then go to the options tab/logging and make sure you have the PSU selected, set the timing to 1 second intervals and click start logging than test it ;)
 
Will set it up and check, but now that the PSU has been replaced (under warrantly, and not the GPU) I suspect everything will be fine.
 
Yes, Corsair honoured their warranty and sent me a replacement - haven't sent the old one back to them yet (I used the express RMA) no idea if they'll test it or just chuck it in the bin
 
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