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Graphics Card Problems

lflowers

lflowers

lflowers

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Hi all, my friend has been having a few problems with his graphics card not being recognized. His PC would boot up fine one day and then the next it will boot up but there will be no display. He has cleaned it out and checked to make sure everything is plugged in. He has also said recently it has been taking longer to boot up.
His PC specs are:
Intel core i5 3570k
Gigabyte Z77-D3H
16GB Corsair Vengeance low profile 1600Mhz ram
MSI 560ti 1024mb
240GB Corsair Force 3 SSD
500gb Mechanical HDD
Ezcool 700w PSU

Any ideas whats wrong with it?
Thanks
 
Invite your friend to your house, get him/her to bring his rig, test the card in your system and yours in theirs. If you spend a few hours the problems should have presented themselves.

The slow booting could be down to the SSD being filled but the main thing I see wrong is that PSU. Maybe it's not up to the job, ask your friend if he can test another PSU to see if that fixes his problem. It's where I'd start.
 
Thanks for the reply J.D, i have already tried my card in his machine and it wouldn't recognize it was there. Once we had done this though, we put his card back in and worked fine but then a couple of days later the same problem occurred of it not being recognized. I thought it may be a PSU problem as i have never heard of Ezcool and it is 6 years old. Any ideas?
 
Most welcome lflowers. If you could test his 560 in your machine that would help a lot. It's seems to be either the GPU, PSU or motherboard. If the GPU works in yours fine then it's down to the motherboard or PSU. If you're a really nice friend you could then take your PSU out and connect it up to your friend's rig to see if the GPU and motherboard work with the EzCool PSU out of the equation. If it's 6 years old also then I'd say it's most likely to be the culprit but that still needs to be proven. Your GPU acting in the same manner as the GTX 560 makes it seem more like the PSU/motherboard.

I really doubt it's the motherboard BIOS needing updated but there is no harm in trying.
 
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