Is my graphics card fried or did the repair shop lie?

[chrisalex75]

A few days ago my PC turned off by itself randomly while gaming and wouldn’t turn back on. I removed the side panel and pushed the power button again to see what was going on. The PC wouldn’t turn on but the fans inside would spin for a faction of a second.

From reading other people having similar problems online, I figured the culprit was probably a dead power supply.

I took my PC into a PC repair store and they told me a couple days later that my power supply is bad and it fried my GPU. They said my power supply fried their test GPU as well when they were diagnosing the problem. They offered to sell me a new power supply and GPU for $400 but I declined. I took my PC home without paying for the new power supply and GPU.

At home I turned the PC on just in case. Why not? Surprisingly this time it stayed on.

Right now I’m fresh installing windows and it seems to work fine. I’m not very knowledgeable about computers but I assume my GPU is fine as I’m able to reinstall Windows?

 

[Math Geek]

there is a reason your pc had the problem and you need to figure out what it is. the power supply is a likely problem and you need to check on that.

next time it may just take your gpu and other parts with it. don't just assume all is well now. could have been lots of reasons why your pc did not start but the power supply is top of the possibility list.

since the gpu is working now, then it is likely fine.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

the gpu is probably fine, if its working. But as above, the PSU is probably on its way out, they can tend to get a little flaky with powering on/off when the capacitors get old. And i have experienced the pain of a PSU blowing and taking out my motherboard with it. Lesson learned, don't buy cheap psu's.