About a week ago, I went to switch on my PC and nothing happened. It had been working the day before and there had been no indication that anything was amiss. There was an LED light on the motherboard but, nothing else happened.
First thing I did was swap the PSU for a new one. This seemed like a relatively cheap thing to test. Same symptoms (ie. nothing happened!)
Next, I disconnected everything apart from the CPU & 1 x RAM stick and removed the GPU. This time, the PC powers up fine. Swapped to the other RAM stick. Powers up fine. So, I reconnect the drives but, leave the GPU out and I could boot into windows no problem.
To my inexperienced mind, this meant either the GPU or motherboard are possible culprits (is this right?)
I tried the GPU is another PCI slot - PC won't boot. I borrowed an old GPU from someone and, with that installed, the PC powers up fine (However, I cannot check the output as it has no HDMI slot).
System details:-
Asus Z170-E mobo
i7 quad core processor
16gb RAM
Geforce 1070 GTX
Corsair CX 650M PSU
It seems reasonable to conclude from these tests that the GPU is dead and that I now have an 'upgrade opportunity' but, before ordering a new one, I want to be certain that I haven't missed anything or that there are other tests I should do to be certain the GPU is the problem.
To be clear, I am neither confident nor experienced in these matters so, apologies if I have missed any essential information. Unfortunately, I don't have any other machine I can use to test the 1070 GPU.
Thank you in advance
First thing I did was swap the PSU for a new one. This seemed like a relatively cheap thing to test. Same symptoms (ie. nothing happened!)
Next, I disconnected everything apart from the CPU & 1 x RAM stick and removed the GPU. This time, the PC powers up fine. Swapped to the other RAM stick. Powers up fine. So, I reconnect the drives but, leave the GPU out and I could boot into windows no problem.
To my inexperienced mind, this meant either the GPU or motherboard are possible culprits (is this right?)
I tried the GPU is another PCI slot - PC won't boot. I borrowed an old GPU from someone and, with that installed, the PC powers up fine (However, I cannot check the output as it has no HDMI slot).
System details:-
Asus Z170-E mobo
i7 quad core processor
16gb RAM
Geforce 1070 GTX
Corsair CX 650M PSU
It seems reasonable to conclude from these tests that the GPU is dead and that I now have an 'upgrade opportunity' but, before ordering a new one, I want to be certain that I haven't missed anything or that there are other tests I should do to be certain the GPU is the problem.
To be clear, I am neither confident nor experienced in these matters so, apologies if I have missed any essential information. Unfortunately, I don't have any other machine I can use to test the 1070 GPU.
Thank you in advance