Hi all, my first ever post.
Can one fix a GPU?
It happening to me last night, THE DREADED GPU causing your PSU to trip. Just like that, my PC went dead, worst of all it was during a heated Battlefield V multiplayer shootout, I was just calling out hacker for cheating...TRIP goes my PC?
"I thought I was remotely hacked by some evil 17 year old genius hacker, who does not like to be called a hacker?"
But eventually, after a bit of YouTube inspired process of elimination, each time I plugged my MSI GEFORCE GTX 1080 GPU power cables into it [specifically the 6 pin connector], my power supply would trip. Swapped it out with my old GTX960 and it worked perfectly.
I opened the 1080 looked for any anomalies [to much dust? melted circuits? smells?] nothing...
This must surely be a catastrophic part failure to trip my 700watt power supply?
Pull the MAINS power cable out, wait for two minutes, switch back on and it trips again.
Remove the 6 pin power cable out of the GPU [leave 8 pin connected]. Re-start system, GPU lights come on, fans run for about 40 seconds, they switch off and the GPU seems to idle. The moment I put the second half of the GPU cables in [6 xpin] the PSU trips?
Can one fix a GPU?
It happening to me last night, THE DREADED GPU causing your PSU to trip. Just like that, my PC went dead, worst of all it was during a heated Battlefield V multiplayer shootout, I was just calling out hacker for cheating...TRIP goes my PC?
"I thought I was remotely hacked by some evil 17 year old genius hacker, who does not like to be called a hacker?"
But eventually, after a bit of YouTube inspired process of elimination, each time I plugged my MSI GEFORCE GTX 1080 GPU power cables into it [specifically the 6 pin connector], my power supply would trip. Swapped it out with my old GTX960 and it worked perfectly.
I opened the 1080 looked for any anomalies [to much dust? melted circuits? smells?] nothing...
This must surely be a catastrophic part failure to trip my 700watt power supply?
Pull the MAINS power cable out, wait for two minutes, switch back on and it trips again.
Remove the 6 pin power cable out of the GPU [leave 8 pin connected]. Re-start system, GPU lights come on, fans run for about 40 seconds, they switch off and the GPU seems to idle. The moment I put the second half of the GPU cables in [6 xpin] the PSU trips?
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