I recently posted a thread over a potential GPU issue which resulted in games to freeze and subsequently on rebooting the screen would be black, although the PC seemed to boot and even could hear the windows start up noise.
So assuming it was the GPU i have purchased the ASUS dual 1060 during that amazing deal. It arrived today and I am happy to say it is now running fine.
However, I tried one last time with the old 290x to see if I could get anything for resale value. To my surprise no signal through to display port, oddly though I changed to the HDMI slot and the screen almost magically turned on. I expect I'll sell it now for possible mining uses and recoup some of the new card cost.
When i tried to put the 1060 in I got a black screen on the boot up and was immediately worried that something larger was wrong. I restarted the PC and got a screen to show up straight away but I had the message that the boot up failed due to an overclock issue. That is something I had already set to defaults again when I was first investigating.
This has left me completely baffled and any advice would be greatly appreciated. Especially if it means I may need some other parts.
I did a memtest before for 4 passes and had no errors on that at all.
Specs
2500k at stock
16gb ram at 1333hz (also set back down)
Z68AP-D3 Gigabye MB
290x/now 1060
550W Superflower PSU
So assuming it was the GPU i have purchased the ASUS dual 1060 during that amazing deal. It arrived today and I am happy to say it is now running fine.
However, I tried one last time with the old 290x to see if I could get anything for resale value. To my surprise no signal through to display port, oddly though I changed to the HDMI slot and the screen almost magically turned on. I expect I'll sell it now for possible mining uses and recoup some of the new card cost.
When i tried to put the 1060 in I got a black screen on the boot up and was immediately worried that something larger was wrong. I restarted the PC and got a screen to show up straight away but I had the message that the boot up failed due to an overclock issue. That is something I had already set to defaults again when I was first investigating.
This has left me completely baffled and any advice would be greatly appreciated. Especially if it means I may need some other parts.
I did a memtest before for 4 passes and had no errors on that at all.
Specs
2500k at stock
16gb ram at 1333hz (also set back down)
Z68AP-D3 Gigabye MB
290x/now 1060
550W Superflower PSU