- THE SALTY CHIP
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- Fabled Legendary Member
Who the hell do you think I am?
Just went through a pretty strenuous experience with my PC...
Occasionally, my GPU, a GTX 670, will flash a black screen for a couple seconds and afterwards a little notification will appear saying the drivers have failed and recovered. Now the thing is, it did this on my old GTX 560 as well. Regardless of what driver version I have, and I have updated my drivers, it will happen. It never really did anything except make the screen black for a couple seconds, and it never happened often enough for it to bother me, so I payed no mind to it.
Now just last night when I tried to play borderlands 1, the game started, but the screen went to black. It wouldn't appear, and after about a minute my computer shut down. Now, this is where things started to get really odd. I started up my computer again, and the screen saying it was loading the bios had purple text, when it's usually white. It then goes through the ASRock motherboard splash screen like normal. But once it starts windows and appears to be done loading, the screen goes to black, my USB mouse and PS/2 keyboard aren't being powered and it stays like that, although my computer is still on.
I had a lot of difficulty determining the problem, but this is what I did : I tried all four sticks of RAM in different slots but to no avail. I also made sure all my power connectors from the PSU to the components were plugged in correctly.
My computer is a prebuilt, that I have upgraded the GPU on (the 560 that was in it before I gave to my brother). These are the specs: ASRock P67 Pro3 SE, EVGA GTX 670, Core i7 2600K, 16GB of Corsair 1333 RAM, 1TB Seagate HDD, 700W PSU.
The PSU has no brand name and no text on it, so it could very well be a bad PSU with a faulty rail, and it could have fried the GPU, or not be sending enough power to it. If the GPU was shot, I should be able to get further past the windows loading screen like the other person has said. If the PSU went bad, it shouldn't be powering the computer all together, and if the motherboard was bad it wouldn't even turn on either. When I return home today I would like to plug my 670 into my brother's computer and try and determine if that's the problem. If it does work, I would then like to try his PSU (which I know is good) on my computer and see if it works there.
I just tried my 670 on my brother's computer and it had the same problem, and I also tried his PSU on my computer and it still didn't work.
I took my PSU out and found a label on the other side. It's called a Coonix, or something. I've never heard of it. I also took a look on the inside of it and the board of it is covered in that battery paste, or whatever that stuff is called when a battery leaks.
Looks like I'll be RMA'ing my 670 and buying a new PSU. I just sent an RMA ticket to EVGA (so happy about that three year waranty) and I'll probably be buying this PSU.
Moral of the story: DO NOT CHEAP OUT ON YOUR PSU. Buy from a trusted brand like SeaSonic or Corsair. Don't go through what I have to...