Leviathan88

I'm willing to bet the issue might be with the external HDD. Its about 4 years old and tends to be moved around a lot. It holds all of my digital media that I stream to my smart TVs through the network (movies and music) I wonder if its just starting to die. I have another external drive, but its an encrypted drive and 1/4th the size. Ill see if it boots with that one connected.

Correct. Removing the large external HDD solved the problem... The question now is how to correct the problem so I can have it plugged in and not take forever for the system to boot?

My theory is that NVIDA witnessed what AMD did to Intel and they are determined not the make the same mistake and under estimate AMD. AMD was playing catchup to both Intel and NVIDA for years, and then quickly took over the CPU market. AMD secured deals with Sony for the PS5 and Microsoft for the Xbox series X using both AMD CPUs and GPUs. Intel took the wait and see approach to AMD expecting Ryzen to flop. It didn't and quickly took over the consumer market, and NVIDA was watching. In sure they didn't want to make the same mistakes. I agree that NVIDA has controlled the performance gains generation to generation intentionally to drive profits and control the market, actually they admitted to that a few years ago I think. So I'm sure if we didn't have a strong threat from AMD we wouldn't have gotten as powerful of cards from NVIDA this time around. I dint think they are scared at all, I think they want to try to shut down AMD before AMD has a chance to do to them what they did to Intel and they are refusing to be complacent like Intel was.

I am having an issue with my pc booting very slowly, I timed it a few times and it takes about 2mins 30 sec from the time I press the power button to my windows log on screen. The problem only started about a month ago, and there isn't really a change that I can pinpoint that would have been the cause. Before the system would boot from power off to windows log on in about 10-15 seconds. Windows itself after signing in starts very quickly. The NVMe drive is only about 1 year old and only holds my OS. I have a second NVMe drive and several large HDDs and multiple backup drives. (Full specs below) I have updated the bios to the latest. Checked all drivers and updates (including windows update) Disabled all other drives in the boot sequence. Checked fast boot. Ran disk optimization/fragmentation. Scanned for viruses. Checked all boot options. The system boots slowly consistently regardless of temps. Also if I hit F2 to enter the bios it takes a few minutes to load the bios as well. Interestingly after the PC has booted all systems work well and is very snappy. System Specs: Running Windows 10. ASUS X470 TUF AMD Ryzen 2600 Team Group 32 gb (4x 8gb) ram @ 3,000 mhz Power Color Radeon Vega 64 850 watt 80+ platnam Drives: 256 gb Gigabyte NVMe (C: boot drive) 512 gb Team Group NVMe (Non-bootable) 512 gb Hatachi HDD (Encrypted, non-bootable) 4 tb western digital HDD (non-bootable) 5 tb western digital HDD (external backup, non-bootable) 1 tb Seagate SSD (external encrypted backup, non-bootable)

Update: The surge protector was pledged into the same outlet as the refrigerator (did I say it was an old home?) And each the the fridge kicked on it drew power from the PC causing the GPU to shut down. Lol....

I've had this GPU for about a year now, I've never had an issue until now. The problem started after I packed my system up and drove 5 hours to my girlfriends home, I've never taken my PC here before because that's a huge pain, however I had planned to do some work while I was going to be here so I figured I'd haul the whole system down. The system was packed properly and upright the entire ride. When i power the system on it performs normally for about 10 or 15 minutes and then the screen just go blank. All the lights are on and fans are spinning except the GPU, also the power indicated lights (the little red lights at the 8 pin connectors are off) but Radion is still lit up. I did some research and most people say it's an issue with using a Y split cable to the PSU... however I've been running my system setup for a year and never had a problem. It had occured to me since my girlfriend lives in a very very old home that maybe my PSU is not drawing enough power from the wall, that might sound ridiculous but I'm grasping at straws since I dont want to fork out the cash for a new GPU right now. Also i reset waltman to default and removed all the overclocked. My GPU is not overheating, it's cool to the touch then the system powers down. I can run benchmarked and stress the gpu to 100% with no issue but then was I'm just watching a YouTube video, reading an article, or even leaving my PC idle the gpu will shutdown. Does anyone have any idea what else I could do to fix this issue?

I was given a graphics card from someone who bought a fake graphics card from Ebay. The card was advertised as a 1050 ti and I discovered from GPUz that the card is actually a GTX 650 Ti. I did some research I bought the necessary equipment to do a hardware flash of the bios... problem is I cant seem to figure out where the bios chip is. Here are some pictures of the card.

You might be right, after examining the socket I think I see where it burnt out.

Yeah I had saw that header, I pulled a speaker off another system k had but it didn't fit. I might order one.

gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 

This board has no on board graphics.

I tried both PCI slots with all graphics cards.

I am rebuilding some old PCs and one of my motherboards is acting a bit strange. Normally, in my experience, if a motherboard is dead you dont really get power to anything. When I start this one up all peripherals come online, hard drive spins up, CPU cooler spins up (and remains spinning) and GPU fans spin up. There is no beep, but that's because there is no on bored speaker on this system. At them moment I have tried multiple GPUs from a 8600 gt, GTX 1060, and a Vega 64... all with the same results. I have tried CPUs from another machine, AMD Athlon x64 duel core I have changed the motherboard battery. I have tried multiple PSU units I have tried multiple monitors I have tried running the RAM in every configuration possible including duel channel and quad channel. All seems to do the same thing. The motherboard is a gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 Any ideas?

I probably could wait till mid February and be okay, I might just have less hair, and a larger forehead shaped dent in my desk. Just looking at the budget though, were at about $1,300 USD right now with a $350 GPU. Now I know I can buy some items bundled and get some discount, so let's say we cut out the GPU and were at maybe, $900USD net. If the R VII really hold at $700 I'll be over my max budget a bit at $1,600USD... And honestly guys, am I the only one disgusted by the fact the CPU chip alone is almost the cost of everything else combined?! What the hell happened?

Oh well... my main workstation, the GPU just died, and I use it as a media server for my entire house. At the moment I'm limping along with my laptop. The desktop I was running had a duel core AMD Athlon 64, 8 gigs of ram, and a VisonTek 4550 AMD GPU. So that computer was not worth much anyways, but hey it live a long happy life.