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why do gpus randomly need reseating?
- Thread starter Threepwood
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gpu inserted correctly by a Pro computer guy, and working for several months before needing a reseat to fix a no signal error
Maybe the cat or dog is playing rough with your pc when you are not there? I've never had to reseat my gpu either. Advice about reseating it is normally just one of them things people just like reinstalling the drivers etc.
People have no idea how you treat your pc so the most obvious solution to a connection problem is to make sure it's connected properly.
Maybe it was the 16 pin power cable that was the problem, didn't the earlier versions have a habit of working loose just by the flex of the cable.
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I've never needed to reseat a GPU unless rebuilding the machine for some reason
I've had to do it on friends machines where the GPU wasn't secured properly and they'd moved it or knocked it
I've had to do it on friends machines where the GPU wasn't secured properly and they'd moved it or knocked it
Soldato
Can't say I've ever had to do that!
Soldato
Another who has never had to do this 
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maybe theres a source of vibration causing the issue
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Never had to do it.
Being helpful: are you not installing it correctly in the first place? Maybe not pushing it firmly into the slot? If you aren't doing that properly, that would explain why you keep having this issue.
Being helpful: are you not installing it correctly in the first place? Maybe not pushing it firmly into the slot? If you aren't doing that properly, that would explain why you keep having this issue.
Never had to do it and ... Ah
Where can I do a course to learn how to be a pro inserter?
Soldato
Only ever been required during build to correct an error or after moving the tower, and even then it's basically never.
It's suggested as a fix for no display output after checking and reseating all cables, as it's an easy test and one doesn't know the situation of the users machine, so it's good to eliminate before wasting time doing other, more difficult stuff.
I have often had no signal being caused by bad/incorrect cables. The one situation I can think of it working, is if your monitor doesn't have a scaler in it, or a limited one, and your gpu/system has got stuck it outputting a different resolution. Then reseating the gpu resets it, and then it gets displayed correctly again.
Id suggest going forward, trying other steps before reseating the gpu, to eliminate other options, so that in future you might have a quicker fix.
Regardless of anyone's experiences, you *shouldn't* be having to do it with any regularity, especially if the tower isn't moving. No components should spontaneously be breaking/disconnecting "regularly" on a hardware or mechanical level.
Once built, I'd expect maybe one component every 2 to 3 years, if unlucky, not weekly or monthly.
It's suggested as a fix for no display output after checking and reseating all cables, as it's an easy test and one doesn't know the situation of the users machine, so it's good to eliminate before wasting time doing other, more difficult stuff.
I have often had no signal being caused by bad/incorrect cables. The one situation I can think of it working, is if your monitor doesn't have a scaler in it, or a limited one, and your gpu/system has got stuck it outputting a different resolution. Then reseating the gpu resets it, and then it gets displayed correctly again.
Id suggest going forward, trying other steps before reseating the gpu, to eliminate other options, so that in future you might have a quicker fix.
Regardless of anyone's experiences, you *shouldn't* be having to do it with any regularity, especially if the tower isn't moving. No components should spontaneously be breaking/disconnecting "regularly" on a hardware or mechanical level.
Once built, I'd expect maybe one component every 2 to 3 years, if unlucky, not weekly or monthly.
run your own business, employing only yourself for 20 years building, fixing and troubleshooting PCs, memorise all the windows cmds, and have a side hustle, building, maintaining servers for some big business clients, and also survey sites for servers
he's totally Pro, his last personal project was building a console in a gutted playstation one, modded to work with bluetooth controllers, which has all the classic games under the sun on it, whatever your childhood game/s was, it's on there.
He's just pro, you can tell by how nice his tools are, andall the special liquids he carries around for cleaning cpu faces etc, he doesn't just clean them, he primes them after that too, and how efficient he is at what he does too, I think that he is autistic, with some ADHD going on, he is obsessed with computers, and constantly talks his way through a job.
Computers are like his super power, and he is equally obsessed with making a build as neat as humanly possible
he has a usb that will boot into several OSes, linux included, and has a whole host of commonly used programs on a few USBs too, one of which has some naughty programs on it
in less than a hour, my 3k build was completed, my old case had been cleaned inside and out, not a mote of dust to be seen ,all the cable routing was neat AF, my win10 was cracked, and he had fixed an ongoing problem with my pc sometimes not seeing my wired router with some windows commands, he installed basic monitoring tools, and stress testing programs to double check that everything was good then asked for £40, I gave him £50
like my mechanic, you have to book him a few weeks ahead if you want a job like that doing, but if you have a minor problem, he will do his best to come over between jobs, ( he is local, )and maybe will sacrifice a weekend day to fit you in, I don't much like him doing that because he works so hard, and does so much driving that he really deserves his days off,
but it is his choice, I'm not going to day no, because I can't do much with only my right hand/arm to work with.*
That is what you have to be like to be Pro, be like John
*I guess that I can rope my mum, and my son into helping with a few very minor things, but I don't really trust them, not like I trust John, I didn't mind my lad reseating an expensive 4090 for me, because I wanted the PC running again, but anything more than that, I'd be asking John
Soldato
Something else is wrong if you need to reseat a GPU constantly… Plug in and forget…
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So reseating a gpu is something you do try/advise to try. has it ever worked, for you to be advising that?
MyPc is not moved, nor had the gpu disconnected, my motherboard has a reinforced pcie slot, there isn't even any gpu sag, and the 4090 is pretty heavy, the screws are in the back bracket too of course Nor had I messed around with any resolution setting before this happened.
It was just a simple no signal error which I've seen a bundle of times, and it was fixed by a few reseats!, and failed
this is not a regular thing formy PC But , I've seen no signal error a lot fixed by a gpu reseat usually, when everything else has been tried And failed.
The same has happened for my remote sons, a gpu reseat being the first PC job they ever learnt to do to combat this last ditch manoeuver, after from checking leads, and turning off/on ofc!
One had a titan, and did need his mum's help to do a reseat though!
They did well considering he was only 9, and his mum had zero computer parts knowlage, but I had showed him how to do it on another PC other than his beforehand
one of my sons lives with me now, and is waiting for his pc to be shipped out to here, so I am a little worried about that gpu/ pcie slot but it is only an old amd gpu with not much weight to it, am sure it will be fine.