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Yeah sorry about that mate, some else might have an idea but I don't, been though all possible things I know.

Make sure its good, did you by any chance short anything? Did you wear an antistatic wristband? If you did short some then that could be the cause, not much you could do about that tho.

Yes the keyboard and mouse etc could light up and work due to low power draw, when the GPU and CPU being to take in more power it could cause the PSU to act up, I've had a faulty PSU that I could get into windows with, browse YouTube bit as soon as I played a game or did anything like that the PC would crash, the PSU did this on different machines as well but after a new PSU was in place everything was normal. Have you got a warranty on your PSU or CPU? Could you easily sent it to the supplier for them to check?

Goodie I like this topic and have being studying it in uni, the general and common conclusion in studies is that violent video games can cause aggression in people of all ages, this can be attributed to the difculty of the game, another main thing pointed out is that aggression does not equal violence or violent behavor and most of the aggression that comes from violent video games is generally directed towards the game and not a particular person, animal etc. You probably could make a case that difficult games in general (puzzle games etc.) that contain no violence could also cause aggression.

Try a different PSU if you can, and how hot does your room get? CX tend to do dislike heat more than other PSUs and tend to fail.

Try the one from your friends build, you don't want to be buying a new PSU if you old one still might be fine.

Try a different PSU, your one might be failing, hard restarts in a computer could indicate it is failing or can't handle the load/ heat

I'm not worried about if the w is enough it just can it delivery it and the amps etc. If it is faulty it might not and it could cause problems, age also doesn't matter, I've had a good PSU go bad after 3 months sometimes it just bad luck. That being said and as you don't have another PSU to check it with I would say that it is the gpu it is old and whatnot but without testing with other GPUs etc I would only be 90% sure.

$2/L nzd here in nz, so about £1/L or $1.26 USD/L

If you have another PSU try that.

Or if your mobo uses uefi and your GPU doesn't support it, it might not work, in that case switch pcie between uefi/legacy and try it. I speak from experience and many sleepless nights.

Hahahaha...yeah they won't...

BIOS and if that works windows, but when you disconnect boot drive only boot into BIOS (obviously)

If that doesn't work you PSU might be failing so try another one.

Here's random guess, I do know long beeps on startup mean something is wrong with the ram... Just a thought.

Well if it boots fine without GPU then it might be at fault and if it boots with one stick of ram in a certain slot then the ram could be at fault etc etc, its really the process of elimination, your trying to narrow down what might be causing your problems.

980ti if you can for fun buy honestly go with a 390/x if your ok with the power consumtion the 980 is not good price/performace the 390x is as good and even better in some situations while being cheaper.

390 for the future in case you want to go higher res monitor or as games get more demanding.

No the mobo should detect the GPU and sort it all out itself, if you can go into your BIOS and see if your pcie slots are set to uefi/ legacy or both try switch between them and seeing if comp displays on power up also try the GPU in the other pcie slots.

Try a different PSU, I've had my keyboard/ mouse and USB ports play up and eventually my computer started shutting down by itself, got a new PSU and it all fixed itself.

I would say try different PSU as I have seen this issue before in computers with faulty PSU.

Plug monitor into the mobo, take out the GPU, get into windows and fully get rid of the drives you just installed, then plug GPU and what not back in and see if it works, if it does go and get an older version of the drives you tryed to install.

Try different psu if you can. What is the new hardware that you added? Edit: also take out the GPU and turn on computer, don't worry about display, or even plunging it in just let the thing run without the GPU and see if it shuts down like before.

Bummer, have you tryed the ram in EVERY slot, not just one of them?

Connect monitor to mobo and try boot with no gpu