nothing being outputted to monitor

deamonata

deamonata

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ok so I've just passed my old computer down to my brother and built myself a new pc the build is as follows (processor, MoBo, and ram were all in an overclocker uk bundle pack) :

Krypton Z68 590i Intel Core i5 3.3 @4.4
Kingston 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Ram
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 intel Z68 (scocket 1155) DDR Motherboard
MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti Twin FrozR II OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express graphics card
2 1TB Hard drives (from old pc)
Artic 700W PSU
3 case fans

So this build, after much checking that it would all work together, was bought it all booted up fine and windows 7 (obtained from MSDN) was installed and it all seemed to be working, I then left it for about 20 minutes and upon my return the screen had gone black. At first I assumes it had just gone to sleep so I pressed a few button on the keyboard, this cause the fans which had stopped (un-noticed until this point)to whir briefly back to life and then stop again, it also did not cause the screen to light up.

So I turn it off at the power checked all the connections and tried again nothing happened at all the fans powered up and spun normally but nothing was displayed on the monitor. I then checked the graphics card believing that to be the problem, by plugging it in to the old computer, the graphics card did indeed work on the other computer.

After reading through a few forum posts I then thought I might be overloading the PSU with too many fans (3 case fans) this was unlikly as the PSU should be putting out 700W, but I unplugged all the fans and tried again, still nothing, however with out the noise of the fans I was able to hear the hard drives whiring.


Thanks in advance
George
 
My worry would be that I've never heard of 'Arctic' PSUs.

Edit: I notice that PSU only has 1 6-pin PCIe power connector yet the GTX 560TI needs 2. Are you using a adapter?
 
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PSU may be 700w, but it may not be giving enough power to the GPU. Most of that 700w I would imagine is going to the CPU rail instead, and even then it may only be stating the peak power wattage which only lasts for a few seconds. Hence, the 560 Ti may be too much for the PSU to handle, and killed it. Moral of this lesson? Buy a proper, more reliable, branded 500w+ PSU.
 
As your system was / is overclocked try doing a CMOS reset, this will clear your overclock but there should be a saved profile in the BIOS which you can load once the PSU is upgraded to a decent one - assuming this may get you going!
 
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