MSI GTX 760 stopped after 3 years.

[kian.guihen]

Hi everyone, I'd like some advice from someone on my busted GPU. It's a 4GB MSI GTX 760 as stated in the title.

It stopped working completely recently after only three years of casual use and just gives one long beep and two short beeps before failing to post. The fans and lights all come on. This problem was only intermittent until recently. My new Ryzen 5 1500x CPU doesn't have integrated graphics so my onboard HDMI port won't work in my new MSI B350 Gaming Pro Carbon mother board. My housemates GTX1060 GPU works fine in my build.

My computer has had a lot of problems recently that literally came one after another causing me to replace parts and have a completely new computer apart from my origional case. Computer down time was about 2 months trying to figure out different problems and replace parts. I breadboarded the entire build to eliminate the first problem which was the PSU. It was no longer powerful enough to boot my PC after three years. I replaced the PSU, same problem. so it must be my CPU as my ram works fine in my friends PC. I replace the CPU, great! So I needed a new motherboard to fit the new AM4 socket, great! I replace the motherboard. Now AM4 motherboards are near impossible to find with DDR3 RAM sockets, so I buy 16 more GB of DDR4 RAM, great! The new setup boots up finally.
Then my desktop is unresponsive, no mouse or keyboard movement on the screen, nothing happening on the desktop. After a lot of reasearch I realise the damn new motherboard doesn't work with my windows 7. Why didnt I upgrade! I was too stubborn. It was working fine on 7. So I put 10 on it and after a week of working fine, that's when my GPU starts acting up with that beeeeeep beep beep. It just took a retry usually and it started the second time most times, but now its dead.

I just want to know if this is my fault htat so much went wrong at the same time, and if I can fix the problem with the GPU. If I'm doing something wrong I dont want it to happen with my new build. I pumped loads of money into it and really don t want to buy a new GPU. Would my dodgy GPU damage my PC even if I did get it working again? if so, I'm going to bite the bullet and get an EVGA GTX 1080 to try and future proof my build, which I cant afford just yet.

Sorry for the long post, My PC specs are:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V series 16GB
Mother B: MSI B350 GAming Pro Carbon
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 850W
Case: NZXT Phantom 410
Graphics: MSI GTX 760

thanks guys.

 

[helpstar]

Are you sure the GTX 760 was tightly inserted in the PCIe slot and all PCIe power connectors were plugged into it too?

Did you try clearing the Cmos/ resetting the BIOS? (ClrCmos)

Maybe a BIOS update could get it to work again.

Does the 760 work in another PC?

 

[kian.guihen]

Are you sure the GTX 760 was tightly inserted in the PCIe slot and all PCIe power connectors were plugged into it too?

Does the 760 work in another PC?

Yea, I cleaned the connectors with some isopropyl alcohol and placed and replaced the GPU many times over the course of the problems. The power connectors were also connected properly each time.
It worked in my friends computer back when the problem was intermittent. I actually never thought to try it since the problem became permanent. Thanks, I'll give that a go, he is away for a week though.

Also, I reset the CMOS by removing the battery for a few minutes but still nothing,

Thanks for the reply

 

[helpstar]

try clearing cmos by jumper, it´s more effective most of the time.