arcticwolf12

Honestly thats what I think happened as well, I had the card out a couple weeks prior because I was testing a used gpu I was looking at buying (ended up being dead), thinking I must have not inserted it completely, even though it was screwed in on the IO part of the card... Crazy it lasted a couple weeks gaming and such before this happened.

Its a Corsair TX650W

Does anyone believe this could be a PSU issue? I would hate to put a new card in and just kill it as well with my power supply..

Is it safe to use this motherboard still, without the card installed I have had absolutely no issues... My PCIE 8x slot is pristine and never used

The bulk of the computer was built by me about 4-5 years ago. My original GPU died a bit over a year ago, and this 7790 was a warranty replacement XFX offered me for my dead 6870. Since getting the replacement the computer has run relatively well, I have gotten occassional crashes where the computer freezes, leaving the screen frozen and having to force shut down. However these crashes are rare and do not seem GPU related as it occurred seemingly at the same rate underload, and just browsing. It used a single 6 pin PCIE connected to the PSU.

So I was testing the stability of my card because I have been getting rare crashes of my pc, only a couple times enough, but since I had some free time I wanted to test how stable my card was under load. I booted up furmark, and after a couple minutes it was doing fine, temperatures were warm, but not absurd, running mid 80 degrees c. I got bored, and clicked the X on the top of furmark and then everything went to hell. I heard and saw a spark and bright lit emit out of my computer case, and everything went black. As fast as i could I hit the power off switch on my PSU, and unplugged it from the wall. I opened the case, and was met with the smell of burnt plastic and these sights (attached) I removed the card after it cooled a bit, and then sat around scared to reboot the computer. However, now the computer is running fine without the card, obviously I have not tried rebooting with the card installed, as I am trying to avoid destroying my motherboard or other parts or even start a fire. I am quite curious if anyone knows what went wrong, what I might have done wrong, and if the motherboard is a hazard to continue using. The only damage to the motherboard seems to be the 16x PCIE slot, luckily the transisters directly below that spot did not blow, and are only slightly blackened by the flame/spark. Would it be safe to install a new card in my PCIE 8x slot? Will this happen again, was it my PSU that may have killed the card? Also the card was not overclocked in anyway. Computer specs are: i5 2500k sandy bridge TX 650W PSU Gigabtyte GA-Z69A-D3H-B3 motherboard 128 SSD + a couple harddrives 8gb corsair vengeance 1333 and a now presumably dead 7790

Computer will no longer boot with the video card installed..

I took out my GPU and restarted and it didnt crash when I started playing games... Is my 6870 dead? It runs the games well for the seconds before the crash with no stuttering or lag.

Any ideas?

I grabbed a video of it happening, it seems to display a different color each time, and has previously stayed up longer than it did this time. I didnt touch the computer or anything at all as this was happening, just opened a game and waited. My speakers are independent

I unfortunately do not have a tester... I just tried opening a game again, this time I had a video playing in the background. First my main display went to now a green color, still with like lines/grid, and my second display went white. However the video kept playing and I could hear it for about 3 seconds and then white noise. Not sure if this information helps or changes anything..

I've had this computer for quite a long time, I'd say 3+ years and this is the first problem like this. When I first built it I had to RMA my 6870 because of it causing games to crash, however I haven't had any problems since then. I really don't think it is an overheating problem, and I checked this by opening GTA 5 with afterburner open and my tempts didnt even move in the time it took for the computer to crash.

So, for most of this afternoon I have been gaming completely trouble free. Don't hate too hard, but have been playing Runescape. I was playing fine for hours, and then I walked outside because I noticed it seemed to be getting stormy and wanted to check it out (This may be relevant) and when I walked back inside, I got on my computer for maybe two minutes before all of the sudden both of my displays stopped displaying windows, my main display was yellowy, with almost a grid/lines, while my second display was just straight white, and my speakers starting playing white noise. My computer itself had no change in sound, fans didn't pick up speed or stop spinning. I thought it was a fluke because nothing like this had ever happened, so I restarted the computer and game, after maybe 30 seconds it happened again. This time I restarted without opening any games and nothing happened. So I tested GTA 5, and it crashed seconds after completely loading into online mode. Sorry for the long description, just trying to convey everything I know... I think it might have been a power surge? Tonight was the first storm thats hit my house this year, however my computer is plugged into a surge protector. I dont believe its a overheating issue because I've used this computer for years, and now it crashes just seconds after starting games, without any time for overheating. My specs: Windows 10 64bit intel i5 2500k radeon 6870 tx650 psu kingston 120gb ssd I tried checking the windows Event viewer for errors, but didn't find anything at all.. Sorry I am unsure how to post dump files.