Pc issue. Please advise

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DoniiY

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Firstly if I have posted in the wrong place I do apologise.

My problem is below. Any help appreciated.

Hi all, I am, an avid gamer and built my own pc. So I was playing Cod warzone and suddenly my pc went off. I assumed that the psu got a bit dusty and the fans were struggling so I cleared them out. Went to start up again but nothing.

I just bought a new psu (Evga 750w GQ). Unfortunately it came with an EU plug and being that I'm from UK I tested the PSU with the old power that goes into the plug socket and it fired up fine.

I then went and plugged everything back in, graphics card, CPU, harddri es etc etc. Fired up PC and dead, nothing came on. So I unplugged both CPU and Gfx card and it then worked yet again. I plugged back in the CPU leaving Gfx cables out and again it came on. I then assumed it was the graphics card but 1 last time of turning it on and it didn't come on even with thr graphics card out. I'm now completely at a loss and don't know what to do.

Any ideas are appreciated. I haven't read this back over so if it doesn't make sense let me know..

System specs below.

MB - Asus Z170-A
CPU - actuslly can't remember
Graphics card - geforce gtx 1070 8gig
Ram - 32gigMB
 
Sorry to go on from above I have since possibly come to the conclusion that it is my graphics card but its only a hunch. I literally unplugged eveything once more. It worked fine, plugged eveything back in including cpu and still was fine. When I plugges the card in it didn't come on.


Regardless on above if I'm wrong or anyone has any theories of what else could be wrong I would gladly welcome your opinion.

Thanks
Don
 
Yeah sounds like the card. If a VRM on the car or something has blown causing a short, the PSU will refuse to power on at all.
 
Shorted graphics card would certainly prevent PC from booting by triggering PSU's protections.
Clearing that fault state usually requires power cycling PSU.
Meaning either detaching cable or using PSU's own switch.

Intels have integrated GPU, so just connect monitor to motherboard's connector to see ifPC boots and gives image.
 
EsaT said:
Shorted graphics card would certainly prevent PC from booting by triggering PSU's protections.
Clearing that fault state usually requires power cycling PSU.
Meaning either detaching cable or using PSU's own switch.

Intels have integrated GPU, so just connect monitor to motherboard's connector to see ifPC boots and gives image.
Click to expand...

So in theory the graphics card is likely had it and I'll need another anyway.
Just in the process of buying 1 is all.
 
EsaT said:
Shorted graphics card would certainly prevent PC from booting by triggering PSU's protections.
Clearing that fault state usually requires power cycling PSU.
Meaning either detaching cable or using PSU's own switch.

Intels have integrated GPU, so just connect monitor to motherboard's connector to see ifPC boots and gives image.
Click to expand...


Hey got up this morning plugged monitor into onboard graphics and activated in bios. Pc is working, so from that can I assume it is the graphics card that's broken?

I'm assuming there is no chance of it being OK.
 
Even if graphics card isn't electrically shorted, it certainly isn't doing any good without working.

Trying another card would confirm that its card which is at fault and not slot.
Though that board has also other slots capable to taking card.
 
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