First, I'd like to cover the specs to get that over with (Oh, and I'd like to say that I'm a complete amateur, so please do have patience).
I'll indicate things I don't really understand with (?).
-PSU: Cooler Master 600W | EU 230V | RS-600-ACAB-B1 | I bought it used 2-3 years ago, I don't know its real "age".
-Motherboard: ASUS Rampage II Gene
-CPU: Intel Core i7-920 2.66GHz | 4 cores, 8 threads | VID Voltage Range (?) 0.800V-1.375V | cooling: fan
-RAM (?): 6GB total | 3 "bars" of ram in a set. (3x2) | 1066MHz
-Storage: 1 SSD 250gb Kingston | 1 HDD 1TB
-OS: Running Windows 10 Pro x64
If I left out anything crucial to figuring out what my problem is, feel free to ask, and sorry I didn't know at first.
So the problem itself...
I don't know how much of this is relevant, but I'll jot down all I know and You can make out what's important.
I was playing a game as usual, but my friends called me and asked me to download and install another game (unrelated, I was reluctant to do so because it was SoulWorker ), so I did. The game would however not launch, so I believed a system restart would fix the problem. 5 minutes prior to this I was playing Tekken 7 like nothing happened. Then, as my PC shuts down and restarts, I notice something odd: All the fans are running, every light is lit as usual, but I get no signal on my monitor.
Fast forward to the following day, I tried another GPU to see whether or not it was the video card's fault. It turned out to be, because the second GPU is what I'm using to write this very post. This GPU is quite old though, and it had a little heating issue years back, so however much I'd like to use it and not mind this whole incident, I can't, because this damn thing won't even run minesweeper (I am overexaggerating, of course). A friend suggested I plug a beeper into the motherboard to see (hear) what it has to say, but it wouldn't talk to me. Our relationship is getting rough, I know. So, the beeper indicates no problems. Right, so I read a forum post where someone said their GPU's fans would stop spinning so as to prevent any damage that a short-circuit would cause. My fans seem to spin good as ever, and there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it (to an amateur like myself), until there's just nothing on-screen.
I know that this is very vague and that there isn't much information to work with, but I was hoping somebody up here would be able to make sense of this. Plus, I was just baffled that my PC wouldn't start again, and it was working just fine a couple seconds prior to restarting it.
That... should be it! If I missed anything, be sure to let me know. I'm new to using forums, and, to, err... hardware... things. Yeah.
Thank You in advance for answering, and have a good day.
I'll indicate things I don't really understand with (?).
-PSU: Cooler Master 600W | EU 230V | RS-600-ACAB-B1 | I bought it used 2-3 years ago, I don't know its real "age".
-Motherboard: ASUS Rampage II Gene
-CPU: Intel Core i7-920 2.66GHz | 4 cores, 8 threads | VID Voltage Range (?) 0.800V-1.375V | cooling: fan
-RAM (?): 6GB total | 3 "bars" of ram in a set. (3x2) | 1066MHz
-Storage: 1 SSD 250gb Kingston | 1 HDD 1TB
-OS: Running Windows 10 Pro x64
If I left out anything crucial to figuring out what my problem is, feel free to ask, and sorry I didn't know at first.
So the problem itself...
I don't know how much of this is relevant, but I'll jot down all I know and You can make out what's important.
I was playing a game as usual, but my friends called me and asked me to download and install another game (unrelated, I was reluctant to do so because it was SoulWorker ), so I did. The game would however not launch, so I believed a system restart would fix the problem. 5 minutes prior to this I was playing Tekken 7 like nothing happened. Then, as my PC shuts down and restarts, I notice something odd: All the fans are running, every light is lit as usual, but I get no signal on my monitor.
Fast forward to the following day, I tried another GPU to see whether or not it was the video card's fault. It turned out to be, because the second GPU is what I'm using to write this very post. This GPU is quite old though, and it had a little heating issue years back, so however much I'd like to use it and not mind this whole incident, I can't, because this damn thing won't even run minesweeper (I am overexaggerating, of course). A friend suggested I plug a beeper into the motherboard to see (hear) what it has to say, but it wouldn't talk to me. Our relationship is getting rough, I know. So, the beeper indicates no problems. Right, so I read a forum post where someone said their GPU's fans would stop spinning so as to prevent any damage that a short-circuit would cause. My fans seem to spin good as ever, and there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it (to an amateur like myself), until there's just nothing on-screen.
I know that this is very vague and that there isn't much information to work with, but I was hoping somebody up here would be able to make sense of this. Plus, I was just baffled that my PC wouldn't start again, and it was working just fine a couple seconds prior to restarting it.
That... should be it! If I missed anything, be sure to let me know. I'm new to using forums, and, to, err... hardware... things. Yeah.
Thank You in advance for answering, and have a good day.
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