I just want to run this by some other people in the likely event that I missed something:
My computer has been running smoothly for a few years. I recently tried Star Citizen during their free week. My computer barely meets minimum specs, but it was managing well on low settings...at least until the screen went black. Now, the bios will display when I turn on the computer, but it goes black as soon as Windows 10 starts to load. If I remove the graphics card and use processor graphics, everything is fine. I eventually did a complete reinstall of Windows to account for any corrupt software, no change.
System stats:
i5-7500 processor
ASUS H110 motherboard
G. Skill 16GB 2133 DDR4 Ram
Antec 430W PSU
XFX RX 470 4GB video
Additional thought:
The power light on the graphics card is blue (good) when it is plugged in (plus I found that the graphics card only pulls 20W at idle), so it's probably not a power issue?
The bios still displays at startup, so a signal must still be going through the PCI slot?
The card would not even respond to Windows native display drivers during a fresh install, so probably not software?
Without the graphics card, the computer works great. At least I still have that.
I think an equivalent to this 256-bit RX 470 card runs about $600 or more in today's market (I paid $300 5 years ago), so I just want to be extra sure it's really toast before I give up on it.
Thank you for your time.
My computer has been running smoothly for a few years. I recently tried Star Citizen during their free week. My computer barely meets minimum specs, but it was managing well on low settings...at least until the screen went black. Now, the bios will display when I turn on the computer, but it goes black as soon as Windows 10 starts to load. If I remove the graphics card and use processor graphics, everything is fine. I eventually did a complete reinstall of Windows to account for any corrupt software, no change.
System stats:
i5-7500 processor
ASUS H110 motherboard
G. Skill 16GB 2133 DDR4 Ram
Antec 430W PSU
XFX RX 470 4GB video
Additional thought:
The power light on the graphics card is blue (good) when it is plugged in (plus I found that the graphics card only pulls 20W at idle), so it's probably not a power issue?
The bios still displays at startup, so a signal must still be going through the PCI slot?
The card would not even respond to Windows native display drivers during a fresh install, so probably not software?
Without the graphics card, the computer works great. At least I still have that.
I think an equivalent to this 256-bit RX 470 card runs about $600 or more in today's market (I paid $300 5 years ago), so I just want to be extra sure it's really toast before I give up on it.
Thank you for your time.