Raines

I'm gonna take everything out and reassemble later in the day if all else fails. Yes, I've only got 1x8gb, there isn't any other RAM in the house other than my laptop's soooo..

Hi. So I recently received an RMA for my GPU which was defective and went to install it back into my system. Before this, the system had not been touched other than when I took out the GPU. On starting up, there was an on-off loop with it staying on for at least 8 seconds before shutting down and powering up and repeating the cycle. All fans and LEDs were running during the "on" periods of the loop. There was no display at all when plugged into my monitor via HDMI during the loops. Things I have tried: Draining power, reseating RAM, CMOS reset, turning on without GPU installed. I haven't taken everything out yet and would not like to do that if possible. However, I am suspecting a motherboard short circuit upon doing some research. This system is fairly new ( about two months old) and the parts were all brand new. Is there a high chance the motherboard is dead? Please advice, thanks. System specs as follows. i5-6500 @3.2GHz ZOTAC Geforce GTX 1060 3GB FSP HEXA 550+ PSU Gigabyte GA-H110M-DS2 Mobo

I doubt it's the monitor issue. I guess i'll check whether I can get my builder to test it.

Sorry I can't really plug the GPU into another PC, at least for now. Here's some screenshots of the artifact, It gets worse in browsers or other windows.

Of course, Steam allows you to choose your install location. That said you may have to reinstall games in order to 'move' them to the SSD

Hi LTT dudes, So about two weeks ago, I purchased a custom build desktop from a guy that I trusted. The rig ran fine for the entire duration until two days ago, when it unexpectedly crashed while I was cruising around in The Crew. Immediately when it crashed, the screen seemed to show the default 'your PC has crashed' Windows 10 message, however I'm assuming that's the case because I couldn't actually see the message; what I noticed instantly was horrendous artifacting that continued even in the BIOS/bootup. After an auto restart, the artifacting is still there (It still is) and device manager showed error 43 and that the driver was disabled. The resolution of course, was also lowered automatically due to that. After Googling and trying out some of the solutions (draining power, clean reinstalling drivers) the problem isn't fixed. Upon doing some extensive research, I'm convinced that it's a defective card (which was what my builder thinks too) since it wouldn't make sense that a card would die after 2 weeks of running games way below its potential. I already have plans to head down to the distributor to get an exchange. Here are my specs: CPU : i5-6500 @ 3.2GHz GPU : ZOTAC Geforce GTX 1060 3GB Mobo : Gigabyte H110M-DS2 RAM : G.Skill DDR4 8GB Single Storage : OCZ TR150 240GB SSD PSU : FSP HEXA+ 550 OS : Windows 10 Home 64bit I can put up screenshots of artifacting/other stuff if needed. If anything, what I'm trying to find out here is whether the GPU is dead or not.