Hello,
I've been trying to fix my old PC and nothing worked.
The GPU is the Nvidia GTX 660 with a 6 pin PSU connector.
A PC shop said the GPU chip is faulty.
Basically, the PC works fine but when you put the GPU under big loads, it reboots the whole PC after a few minutes.
I gave up trying to fix it after buying a new PSU.
Recently I've seen that one of the cables coming into the 6pin power connector for the GPU actually isn't connected to anything besides the GPU itself. (One yellow cable, other 2 yellow and 3 black ones are fine)
So basically only 5 (out if 6) pins are connected from the PSU to the GPU.
Could that be the reason why the GPU was faulty? Could the GPU even run with only 5 pins?
Or maybe that one wire just came loose after sitting in a box for 2 years? Or maybe that one wire was the culprit all along?
I've been trying to fix my old PC and nothing worked.
The GPU is the Nvidia GTX 660 with a 6 pin PSU connector.
A PC shop said the GPU chip is faulty.
Basically, the PC works fine but when you put the GPU under big loads, it reboots the whole PC after a few minutes.
I gave up trying to fix it after buying a new PSU.
Recently I've seen that one of the cables coming into the 6pin power connector for the GPU actually isn't connected to anything besides the GPU itself. (One yellow cable, other 2 yellow and 3 black ones are fine)
So basically only 5 (out if 6) pins are connected from the PSU to the GPU.
Could that be the reason why the GPU was faulty? Could the GPU even run with only 5 pins?
Or maybe that one wire just came loose after sitting in a box for 2 years? Or maybe that one wire was the culprit all along?