Has my gtx970 just given up??

[Di-rear]

Hiya all, I've gone to put my pc on tonight for some gaming and boom a purple\blue flashing screen and then blanking into black....not the monitor Xbox displays fine...is that my card dead??

 

[mickyflinn]

Looks that way do you have a spare gpu or onboard graphics.

Does your pc turn on and can you access the bios

 

[ED209]

Could try re seating the gpu and power cables, check both ends of a modular psu.

try another pci slot or if possible try the card in another pc.

 

[Di-rear]

Pc still turns on and off but can't see anything obviously, I think it has onboard gfx

 

[Di-rear]

Could try re seating the gpu and power cables, check both ends of a modular psu.

try another pci slot or if possible try the card in another pc.

I've no other card, but I will try and reseat it, tbh i don't touch the pc but ya never know.

 

[ED209]

I've no other card, but I will try and reseat it, tbh i don't touch the pc but ya never know.

Sometimes ram can start playing up and just need a re seat.

maybe check for dust in the slot and on the card and just make sure it’s making good contact.

 

[ED209]

hopefully something will help, give the card a clean as well if it’s needed

 

[Di-rear]

Try and get some time tonight to have a good look, it's been a good card so will sad to see it go if that's the case lol

 

[Di-rear]

Right guys...I've taken out the 970 and the ram and cleaned and re seated both...no change....so changed my bios to onboard gfx and the computer displayed fine

So is that my graphics card dead? The fans on it still turn lol

 

[Tommy_Here]

Right guys...I've taken out the 970 and the ram and cleaned and re seated both...no change....so changed my bios to onboard gfx and the computer displayed fine

So is that my graphics card dead? The fans on it still turn lol

Sounds like it.... have you tried using a different display cable I.e HDMI or display port? Bad timing really... I'd hold off for a few weeks

 

[michty_me]

My brother had pretty much the same issue with a EVGA 970 card a few weeks after he bought it from someone. He ended up baking it in the oven for a while and so far its working as normal in another machine.

 

[ED209]

Right guys...I've taken out the 970 and the ram and cleaned and re seated both...no change....so changed my bios to onboard gfx and the computer displayed fine

So is that my graphics card dead? The fans on it still turn lol

did you try a different PCI slot? does sound like the card has died though

 

[Di-rear]

Sounds like it.... have you tried using a different display cable I.e HDMI or display port? Bad timing really... I'd hold off for a few weeks

so plugged it into HDMI and boom back to normal...so could just be the dvi cable, havnt got another to test, but at least I have a screen to play on, has HDMI got any drawbacks compared with dvi??

 

[heatonpkmassive]

so plugged it into HDMI and boom back to normal...so could just be the dvi cable, havnt got another to test, but at least I have a screen to play on, has HDMI got any drawbacks compared with dvi??

I think at 60Hz, it's pretty much the same. It's certainly no worse.

 

[new boy]

so plugged it into HDMI and boom back to normal...so could just be the dvi cable, havnt got another to test, but at least I have a screen to play on, has HDMI got any drawbacks compared with dvi??

Not as such, though my previous monitor would only do 120hz over DVI, not HDMI so it depends on the set up.