Is My Graphics Card Dead?

[botpatrick]

I was doing some cable management and was repeatedly turning on and off my system. Everything was fine until the final time I turned it on. When I did only one of my three monitors was found. I tried testing the two no-show monitors individually and they each showed up with very strange verticle lines which I think was similar to other dead graphics card pictures. However I am not convinced that my card is dead as one of my displays still works fine. Also nvidia control panel has disappeared. I don't know if that is a clue on anything?

Components:
Gtx 960
Core i5 6400
8 gb ram
3 monitors
Asus g11cd motherboard
Some mystery psu which came with my asus g11cd prebuilt system I was dumb enough to buy

 

[antishill]

How hard did you yank on your cables when you were doing you "cable management"? Did you put the zip ties on some of them way too tight? The highest probability is that you have unintentionally damaged you cables, and that would explain the vertical lines and such.

 

[botpatrick]

How hard did you yank on your cables when you were doing you "cable management"? Did you put the zip ties on some of them way too tight? The highest probability is that you have unintentionally damaged you cables, and that would explain the vertical lines and such.

I didn't yank any of the cables any harder than when I first switched cases about a month or two ago and even then all I really did was stuff all of my excess power supply cables into the basment of my pc. I also didnt add any zipties as i kinda just stuffed all of the cables out of sight.