What is wrong with my PC?

[Lqndon]

Heres my story. So yesterday it was late, and I was just getting offline. I shut down my PC like normal and while the windows screen was JUST going away and the pc was like 5seconds away from shutting down I flipped the switch on the back to shut it completely down so it doesnt draw any power and doesnt keep my keyboard lit up so my LEDs last longer. Now I am thinking at this point nothing is wrong and I went to bed. Just turned the PC on and the GPU doesn't display screen. I tried the HDMI port on the back (which I think is the Motherboard) and it works! But my GPU screen or w/e you call it doesn't show anything and says no signal. My GPU fans are spinning and looks OK? I dont know because I am new to EVERYTHING about pc and didn't even build it my self because I didn't wanna screw anything up.

My question is how do I know what parts I just messed up? Its not my CPU, its probably my GPU, it can't be my ram because its detecting 8gb of ram and is working, it can't be my motherboard, nor my HDD so at this point... Did I just fry my GPU?

 

[Lqndon]

So far so good hopefully your senses are correct!!! It worked. now what? it says restart pc

 

[DasHotShot]

So far so good hopefully your senses are correct!!! It worked. now what? it says restart pc

Click No, then shutdown the pc yourself. Change the monitor cable back to the gfx card. Turn on the system again. Watch as your eyes light up and you try to imagine how your hero in shining armour looks. Wipe the tear of joy from your face. Come back here and confirm everything is ok again. Pick the right post as a the solution and we shall part ways and maybe one day, unknowingly cross paths in a game...

 

[Lqndon]

So far so good hopefully your senses are correct!!! It worked. now what? it says restart pc

Click No, then shutdown the pc yourself. Change the monitor cable back to the gfx card. Turn on the system again. Watch as your eyes light up and you try to imagine how your hero in shining armour looks. Wipe the tear of joy from your face. Come back here and confirm everything is ok again. Pick the right post as a the solution and we shall part ways and maybe one day, unknowingly cross paths in a game...

ok as I did this and shut it down... it was good I am still on motherboard but I went to device manager and saw my GTX Card now has a yellow triangle I right clicked properties and it said (Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43))

 

[DasHotShot]

So you shut down? Or did you go to the device manager before shutting down? Why are you still on mobo?

You confuse me by making everything complicated and it is grating me a little. So let's keep this simple and step by step.

How many of my steps did you follow? Because it sounds like you ignored them by not switching the cables when the pc was off.

 

[Lqndon]

So you shut down? Or did you go to the device manager before shutting down? Why are you still on mobo?

You confuse me by making everything complicated and it is grating me a little. So let's keep this simple and step by step.

How many of my steps did you follow? Because it sounds like you ignored them by not switching the cables when the pc was off.

I shut down, rebooted, went to device manager, t hen saw it wasnt working. I am still on mobo lol

 

[DasHotShot]

So you shut down? Or did you go to the device manager before shutting down? Why are you still on mobo?

You confuse me by making everything complicated and it is grating me a little. So let's keep this simple and step by step.

How many of my steps did you follow? Because it sounds like you ignored them by not switching the cables when the pc was off.

I shut down, rebooted, went to device manager, t hen saw it wasnt working. I am still on mobo lol

Why did you not follow what I said and switch the cables? What possible reason could there be? What was going to be the worst that could happen?

I said...shutdown, change cables to gpu, power up.

Not restart, go to control panel and look for triangles and errors.

By usingthe mobo you are telling the pc to use the inbuilt gfx instead of the nvidia one. So windows turns that off.

Just take simple instructions, especially when you are severely limited in your knowledge on troubleshooting this.

 

[DasHotShot]

Now shutdown, swap the cables and test what happens.

If it does not work, switch back and we will continue from there

 

[Lqndon]

I just took the GPU out and put it back in? Now what a lot of people told me to do this?

 

[DasHotShot]

I just took the GPU out and put it back in? Now what a lot of people told me to do this?

You did this when the PC was off I hope.......................

This does nothing, so you wasted some time, thank people nicely.

If you won't follow what I say, I won't help you.

Take it easy and good luck

 

[Lqndon]

I just took the GPU out and put it back in? Now what a lot of people told me to do this?

You did this when the PC was off I hope.......................

This does nothing, so you wasted some time, thank people nicely.

If you won't follow what I say, I won't help you.

Take it easy and good luck

I want to follow you but its just a lot of people recommended it sorry. I will listen now.

 

[DasHotShot]

I just took the GPU out and put it back in? Now what a lot of people told me to do this?

You did this when the PC was off I hope.......................

This does nothing, so you wasted some time, thank people nicely.

If you won't follow what I say, I won't help you.

Take it easy and good luck

I want to follow you but its just a lot of people recommended it sorry. I will listen now.

I have no time right now, might log on later and we can message/chat over skype or something to fix this.

Don't wait for me though

 

[Lqndon]

I just took the GPU out and put it back in? Now what a lot of people told me to do this?

You did this when the PC was off I hope.......................

This does nothing, so you wasted some time, thank people nicely.

If you won't follow what I say, I won't help you.

Take it easy and good luck

I want to follow you but its just a lot of people recommended it sorry. I will listen now.

I have no time right now, might log on later and we can message/chat over skype or something to fix this.

Don't wait for me though

Ok Just pm me your skype on here.

 

[Lqndon]

Guys still looking for more help. GPU is being detected but it has this http://gyazo.com/35eacee12983b42c0266fba129e139b0 and when I plug in my HDMI cable from monitor to GPU theres no signal.