[SOLVED] No power with 980ti

[jazmag]

So a friend of mine have me an old msi gtx 980 ti gaming to upgrade my 770 and the pc won't power up after it's connected. Is it dead?

Msi 990fxa-gd80
Amd fx6300 black
Seasonic SS-660XP2 platinum

Works fine with my 770 but there's no power at all when the 980 is plugged in.

 

[richiestang_78]

Can you try the card again in your friends computer?

 

[jazmag]

Not at the moment.

 

[richiestang_78]

Assuming you have it hooked up correctly then if the computer wont boot at all then yes usually it means a dead card.

I assume you have your monitor plugged into the graphics card and not the motherboard video out?

 

[jazmag]

Yeah but that wouldn't affect the complete lack of power.

 

[jazmag]

Someone suggested that my psu isn't big enough but everything i've read has the maximum draw at 240w I deliberately chose low power components when I built the system so they can't be using that much of the available power...

 

[richiestang_78]

Your PSU is plenty of power for that setup. As I suggested the only way to know if it is truly the card 100%, which I suspect it is, is to test it in another computer.

Since the computer wont even post Im leading to believe that the card is in fact dead. If the computer would at least post I woudl recommend trying to use DDU to wipe all the drivers.

 

[kerberos_20]

no power (coz of GPU) usualy means gpu is fryed, it can happen when card isnt fully seated

 

[jazmag]

So I RMA'd the card and they fixed and returned it to me. I an happy to report that the fans now spin up and the pc posts. However it doesn't get any further... I get windows spinning spheres then no signal. It's like windows is switching the card off.

 

[jazmag]

Again put the 770 back in and the system boots just fine. Tried resetting cmos, removing the battery, reseating the card....

 

[jazmag]

Tried the 980 after taking the 770 out again and got to desktop for maybe five minutes. Just downloading drivers when the display went no signal and now I'm back to square one. PC is still running but now for no reason there's no signal...

 

[jazmag]

Changed the HDMI cable and it's fine... not sure why but now it works....