BristolBrick

Further update: The GPU works fine, it's my damn motherboard. Updated the BIOS, it shows video now, but the BIOS freezes trying to leave the splash screen/boot menu. I hate motherboards.

Not hard, the PC is by luck next to the TV, but same result (no output) as other attempts. My only doubt that the card is defective is when I went to the local PC shop, and was told it might be a driver issue. I had assumed all cards had at least basic interoperability with all motherboards without drivers, but he tells me that the drivers affect it even down to the BIOS. Smells fishy to me, especially since the appropriate AMD drivers threw an error installing with the 560 Ti installed because I didn't actually have any AMD hardware installed. Maybe I downloaded the wrong bit of software, but I think most likely the card is just DOA.

Yeah that's the fast clockspeed variant, it's meant for fast timezones like +10 GMT. Probably it's best just to look at benchmarks. Clockspeed by itself is not usually much of a factor. It's a measure of how many operations (cycles) a GPU/CPU can do per second. More is better, but it just goes into regular performance, so benchmarks are still the best measure. The only real choice with clockspeed is if you choose to overclock/underclock, or the system gets too hot and dials back the speed automatically.

Update: I have found and tried an HDMI to DVI adapter, no banana there either.

I bought an RX 6700 XT (used, with short warranty from the seller) but I'm not getting any signal from it, which I am running through a DP to VGA adapter. I have a couple of old monitors, and neither have the card's connections. (HDMI + DisplayPort) The card's fans start and the side glows "RADEON" but no signal at all, so I suspect the adapter is faulty, or unsupported by the graphics card. I ordered a pair of DP to DVI adapters when I bought the card (and they haven't arrived yet), and if the VGA adapter which is this kind of thing doesn't work, might the same problem stop the DVI adapters? If they don't work either will I be stuck in 2 weeks time when these things arrive wondering if my GPU is faulty or just stuck with shitty adapters? Thanks, just wondering whether these adapters are likely to be the problem and whether it's worth buying a newer monitor from a local store to see if it connects natively. I don't want to do that, I like my old monitors. Edit: Thanks everybody for the help, turns out it was my bloody motherboard. I haven't even put the thermal paste away from replacing the last one, I hate motherboards.

Must've really gone downhill. I bought this one to replace another failed Antec, although that antec lasted 15 years.

Today my PC turned on, without screen output. Normal problem, it's solved by reseating the graphics card. I did that, then ran into this new problem. If I turn it on, it powers up for a couple of seconds, then powers down again, and keeps this cycle going until I turn it off. (Lights, fans off, then they come on, and off) Thinking it was GPU related, I switched out the 3GB GTX 1060 for an old GTX 8800 that I know works. This produced the same behaviour, except once when it did one power cycle, but then stabilised on the second one, and allowed me to boot into Linux. I switched the 1060 back in, and was never able to repeat this. Google told me that common reasons for this fault include power supply failures, so I pulled mine out to test it with a multimeter. All pins showed voltage within 4%, except #14 (on a 24 pin connector) which is meant to be +12, but delivers +11.17 or +11.18. The tolerance for ATX PSUs is apparently +-5%, (11.4V to 12.6V) but if mine has just one pin that's 0.23V outside this, could that cause it? I also suspect the PSU because perhaps the 1060 drew more power and prevented the system from booting, but the 8800 might barely (because it still cycled most of the time) squeeze by? Although the 8800 has HIGHER max power usage (158W vs 120W), perhaps this is just a max, and it also has lower minimums? System Specs: Antec VP700P Plus (Bought this year) i7 2600 (2011) Asus GTX 1060 3GB (2017) or 8800 GTX 768MB (2006) Gigabyte H61m Board With all the jank and 10+ year old parts, I never expected the PSU I bought new from a reputable brand less than a year ago would be the thing to break.

Solved myself. For you in 2032 with the same error: Suspected the power supply, Brought another PC alongside, with a working PSU, and ran the cables from it to the faulty PC, which happily turned on with the new PSU. Shame, I had a good PSU until it broke, but at least I know where the problem is.

And clearly that's not in the spirit of the challenge, so there could just be a rule that you must use the most up to date drivers/some standard settings/etc.

Video idea: Scrapyard wars, but you aren't after the BEST performance, you're after the WORST. e.g. winner is whoever can run some game (like Rise of the tomb raider) at the lowest FPS, but it has to run.

PC wouldn't boot up before, so I switched out the CPU and motherboard from an older PC whose PSU was fried. (Accidentally set it to 120V while connected to 240V power) No other known faults with the mobo-doner PC. The main PC has no lights coming on, no anything, except that it has 4 fans. 2 start, one doesn't, and one wiggles back and forth. I have tried shorting the power-button input on the DH61BE Intel motherboard (old, LGA1155 I think, for a 2nd Gen i7, though at the moment it has a 2nd gen i5 that I'll replace with the i7 if I can get the computer to work) but this did nothing. The CPU fan does nothing. The PC (before I replaced the motherboard) had randomly turned itself off/refused to boot, for no apparent reason, intermittently. The failures were getting more frequent though, so I thought it was a mobo issue. The only thing it does is move the fans when the PSUs are switched on. (Tried again, three fans were wiggling, CPU stationary) No GPU installed, I'm running it on intel graphics until I get it working.

Had this issue for a while, but if bootmanager is missing it is possible to boot to the OS anyway. I had a windows 7 install that did that, I just needed to have the windows installer disk in the dvd drive. (Turns out other bootable disks did it) I would get the prompt 'any key to boot from cd' but if I didn't push it I'd boot from the OS anyway. Eventually tried to fix it by wiping and reinstalling, I have no idea if this will happen to others and I have no idea why it happened to me, but I could not get Windows 7 to reinstall. So just back up the drive before you try wiping, which I ignored and regretted. (To be clear, I can install other OSes just fine. Linux Mint and Manjaro and Windows Vista all work fine)

I can rule out memory failure. I've tested every combination of my two RAM sticks and two slots. All had the same error.

I wondered that too, but wouldn't it make other operating systems fail too? Windows Vista works absolutely flawlessly, if only it was still supported. Linux installs as well, and I've tried removing the sticks of RAM. Not too thoroughly, perhaps I'll try again.

"Windows cannot install required drivers. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation. Error Code 0x80070570" This has happened every time I have tried to install Windows 7. (I know it is out of date and I will be told to change to another OS) I really don't understand why my computer would keep giving me this error. Other operating systems install without issue. I have tried Linux Mint 19.3 and Manjaro, which installed without problems. (Yet gave me plenty of other headaches.) Windows Vista installed correctly too. I have tried on multiple drives, from different DVD drives, using different boot discs, using different iso files, and from USB boot drives too. I've tried both Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate, and this on a machine that has run Windows 7 for years. I once removed the graphics card, DVD drive, and every peripheral that I physically could. I've tried with and without either of my two memory sticks and slots, and tried upgrading from Vista to 7. In short, I have absolutely no idea why my computer is so allergic to Windows 7 specifically. Also, every OS (7, Vista, Linux) was 64 bit, and so is my computer. I've also reset the BIOS. Ironically enough Vista was the only OS that installed without major problems. (Manjaro dies randomly, but that's probably unrelated, and I had a hard time getting a burner to work with the Mint ISO) i7 2600, 16GB ram, H61 board with a 3GB 1060 and several HDDs/SSDs.