Issues with graphics card

Lee Monk

Lee Monk

Lee Monk

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Hi all,

Looking for some help here.

At Christmas I gave my son my old PC. Within a few days the Graphics card stopped working. The system powers up but the screen freezes or blackscreens.

We just removed the GPU and turned on the internal cpu graphics which isnt great but it's a fix.

He posted on these forums and on the back of the advice has just purchased a 2nd hand 1070. However, upon plugging it in, it's not working.

The GPU fan starts up but then stopps. We get a medium/long beep followed by two short ones and then every 10 seconds or so we get a single beep.

A) Thoughts on getting this working? (We've tried reseting bios, tried the other PCI slot)
B) Given that there are two GPU's now not working (but both power up) is it likely to be the mobo?

If it is B, then what are the best options for us? there is not really any spare funds for this but we have a workng CPU, (hopefully) a working GPU and 16g of Ram (DDR3 I thinK).

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3801 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

GPU - GTX 1070
CPU - Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3801 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
Ram - -16g. DDR3

Ideally I'd like not to have to purchase more gear so the preference would be to get it working. But failing that, what are some mobo options - new or 2nd hand?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Lee
 
Hi all,

We'll try re-seating the ram which I beleive is just a case of turning everything off and removing power cables and removing the ram and placing back in again? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I can't find the receipts but the power supply is Corsair and is about two years old as I purchased it for a GPU that didn't "fit" in the case and was returned.

It was good enough to power the GPU that stopped working when I gave the PC to my son.

It's a 550 or a 650.
 
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Major774 said:
Have you tried this yet? This will provide a lot of answers.
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Hi,

Not yet. Was keen to cover all other options first as I was keen to avoid opening my new system to try this. Older PC's I'm happy to play around with.... more expensive ones.... less so, but I guess we're running out of options.

Does the medium beep and three (not two) short beeps tell us anything?
 
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Lee Monk said:
Hi,

Not yet. Was keen to cover all other options first as I was keen to avoid opening my new system to try this. Older PC's I'm happy to play around with.... more expensive ones.... less so, but I guess we're running out of options.

Does the medium beep and three (not two) short beeps tell us anything?
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The beeps mean nothing unless we get your motherboard make and model :)
 
Found this:



I removed the keyboard and the three beeps stopped. I then had a single short beep every 18/20 seconds.

I assume continuous beep could be every 20 seconds or so, however that doesn't really feel "continuous" but I guess it's all relative.

I've just been looking through old posts. I'm pretty sure the power supply I purchased was:

Corsair TX550M 550W 80 Plus Gold Semi Modular Power Supply (CP-9020133-UK)

Would this be sufficient to power the card? There is very little else going on in the machine. Just a couple of SSD's
 
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Lee Monk said:
Would this be sufficient to power the card? There is very little else going on in the machine. Just a couple of SSD's
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Yes the TX550M is sufficient

ANDARIAL said:
power supply is `barely`powerfull enough imho
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that's not really correct, is it now? and in fact i'll just call it out as plain incorrect.

a 3570k will pull ~100w with a mild oc, and the 1070's tgp is 150w max
added to that the other components/peripherals say give it 50w, that's a max power draw of 300w
even with an oc 3570k of 150w...that's still only 350w of power draw at the component side of the psu

ANDARIAL said:
How old is it?although a good make power supplies do age
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Lee Monk said:
I can't find the receipts but the power supply is Corsair and is about two years old as I purchased it for a GPU that didn't "fit" in the case and was returned.
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@Lee Monk i see you already have tried the internal GPU...and with the iGPU the computer works
can you post some pics of the internal and rear of the computer with the gpu in and we can see how it's all connected up please

what is the bios version?
i am wondering if your bios needs an update to the latest available bios to play nice with the GPU
(i also had a gigabyte z77 board running a pascal 1080ti - same gen as the 1070 - which needed a bios update before my system would recognise the graphics card)
 
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Try your GPUs in each of the PCIe slots: both the x16, the x8 (which is x16 length) and all of the x4 slots. This may require you to tell the system where your GPU is.

I'd be interested though to see if any of them work; allows us to rule out the slot itself (but not the PCIe controller, from what I remember of that generation) as the issue.
 
Hi all,

Thanks for the advice so far.

My Son did a little research and (incredibly) reset and updated the bios and now it works.

Hat's off to him..... I'd have not wanted to do that myself
 
tamzzy said:
@Lee Monk i see you already have tried the internal GPU...and with the iGPU the computer works
can you post some pics of the internal and rear of the computer with the gpu in and we can see how it's all connected up please

what is the bios version?
i am wondering if your bios needs an update to the latest available bios to play nice with the GPU
(i also had a gigabyte z77 board running a pascal 1080ti - same gen as the 1070 - which needed a bios update before my system would recognise the graphics card)
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Hi,

Just saw this now. It was the BIOS.... great shout.
 
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