Over the past few days while I've been playing games, every once in a while the pc would either crash to desktop or black screen and restart itself. Well today it was black screening within minutes so I decided to stress test the PSU, and it black screened within ten seconds and wouldn't turn back on. The fans and lights will flicker for a second when trying to turn it on then not let me try again until I've unplugged the PSU.
I've removed piece by piece to see what the issue was, and I've found that if the GPU is plugged in and ONLY has the six pin connector in the GPU, it will turn on, but will not if it has both the six pin and the eight pin plugged in. I've tried swapping the wires out as my PSU is modular but no luck. The eight pin is also connected though an adapter for two six pins if that has to do with anything.
Just to clarify, the GPU needs 1 six pin and 1 eight pin. My modular PSU is using an eight pin to six pin for the GPU's six pin slot. The other wire is another eight pin to 2 six pins, which are then attached to an adapter that takes 2 six pins and outputs the eight pin for the second GPU slot.
Right now I'm thinking that I somehow shorted either my PSU or my GPU, but I don't have any spare parts to test with so I cant tell. Both of these parts are pretty old so I wouldn't be surprised if one of them died. Currently I'm leaning toward the GPU being <Mod Edit> as games have been giving me a "heads up" that a game is about to crash by making one of my other monitors grey screen (then the game crashes within 30 seconds) for a while now. But my power usage in my room commonly trips the house's breaker switch and I have to go reset it in the basement, so I imagine it's taken a toll on my PSU somehow. Any idea where the problem could be?
The GPU is a nvidia 980 Ti and the PSU is a evea supernova 850 G2 gold power supply.
EDIT: So I found an old Geforce 550 Ti and I managed to get it started up at the very least. It only needed one six pin from the PSU if that matters. Any recommendations I should take at this point? Should I try the stress test again to see if it shuts down again? At this point I'm unsure if it would screw up this GPU as well.
I've removed piece by piece to see what the issue was, and I've found that if the GPU is plugged in and ONLY has the six pin connector in the GPU, it will turn on, but will not if it has both the six pin and the eight pin plugged in. I've tried swapping the wires out as my PSU is modular but no luck. The eight pin is also connected though an adapter for two six pins if that has to do with anything.
Just to clarify, the GPU needs 1 six pin and 1 eight pin. My modular PSU is using an eight pin to six pin for the GPU's six pin slot. The other wire is another eight pin to 2 six pins, which are then attached to an adapter that takes 2 six pins and outputs the eight pin for the second GPU slot.
Right now I'm thinking that I somehow shorted either my PSU or my GPU, but I don't have any spare parts to test with so I cant tell. Both of these parts are pretty old so I wouldn't be surprised if one of them died. Currently I'm leaning toward the GPU being <Mod Edit> as games have been giving me a "heads up" that a game is about to crash by making one of my other monitors grey screen (then the game crashes within 30 seconds) for a while now. But my power usage in my room commonly trips the house's breaker switch and I have to go reset it in the basement, so I imagine it's taken a toll on my PSU somehow. Any idea where the problem could be?
The GPU is a nvidia 980 Ti and the PSU is a evea supernova 850 G2 gold power supply.
EDIT: So I found an old Geforce 550 Ti and I managed to get it started up at the very least. It only needed one six pin from the PSU if that matters. Any recommendations I should take at this point? Should I try the stress test again to see if it shuts down again? At this point I'm unsure if it would screw up this GPU as well.
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