[mdlug] Seeking advice or at least commiseration

[Pritpaul Mahal]

I'd give high odds to a dying/dead power supply.  Doesn't necessarily mean it's overloaded, just dead

I'm no power supply expert, this is just from personal experience (in fact with a very similar failure just a month ago)

--Pritpaul
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"Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at dynatrace.com> wrote:

>Have had a good, stable system for three years now. Decided to upgrade
>the video card so I could hang onto the system for another three years.
>
>Replaced an Nvidia GTX 560 Ti with a GTX 970  two and a half weeks ago.
>No problems at first, games ran faster in Linux and Windows. Over the
>weekend, the computer locked up a couple times in games, and I had to
>power-cycle once or twice to get it to POST. BIOS said "Overclocking
>failure" - but I don't overclock anything. Googling a bit, it seems
>that message comes up from power fluctuations sometimes.
>
>I updated the MB to the latest BIOS last night, and got things running.
>Worked for a while, then I gamed for about an hour, and got a hard
>crash. And now the computer won't POST at all. I can power the system
>on, and the fans spin up and so forth, the HD activity light comes on
>briefly, etc. But no video signal at all to the monitors, and no disk
>activity indicating a bootup. Left it powered off overnight, but it
>won't boot this morning either.
>
>I'm assuming some kind of power issue. It's weird - it's an 850 watt
>power supply, and it's not driving anything close to 850 watts. Indeed,
>the new video card has a *lower* TDP than the old one. I'm hoping the
>MB isn't fried or something.
>
>When I get home I will pull the video card and see if it'll boot with
>the onboard Intel graphics. I have two PCI Express 16 slots, so if that
>works I might move the video card to the other slot, see if that helps.
>Otherwise, I imagine I'll be replacing at least some hardware.
>
>Specs of system:
>
>ASUS P8Z68-V Gen3 motherboard
>Intel Core I7-2600K CPU
>16GB 1333 RAM
>Nvidia GTX 970 (EVGA)
>3 3.5 1TB drives
>1 240GB SSD
>1 BDROM/DVD +-RW drive
>850 watt power supply
>
>If anyone has any tips for isolating the problem, I'm all ears.
>
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