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Adreankael

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  1. Recently my graphics card went completely dead, no fan spin no signal out to monitor and I got it into my head to check continuity to see if there was a problem. Pins 1 and 5 on the psu on the 6+2 cable are shorted to ground on both the psu and video card. Is this normal? Yea I'm that much of a noob. Thanks for any help. I ordered a new card so im not really wanting to fix the old one just tinker and learn really.
  2. I'm by no means an expert but I had a 1050ti do something similar. My system shut down unexpectedly but still had power to the board even though all fans had stopped. When I finally got her back up an running the monitor was completely black although it was receiving a signal and even though the PC would boot I got nothing but a black screen from the GPU. I replaced the GPU with a radeon 580 and although I could get to windows the PC was still giving me a fit when I tried to run a game. Turns out it was a bad PSU and not the GPU all along. I put the 1050ti back in it and it had no issues. Wasted 200 bucks on a card I didn't need when all I needed was a PSU. I was also using a Thermaltake PSU. Not going to make that mistake again.
  3. HWino reports 31c and 13c... How the heck am I supposed to know what temp to go by lol? The bios says 13c when I boot up and let it run for a minute or two.
  4. So 3c from Aida 64 extreme isn't right or that isn't the actual temp I should read? Should I go by the 10c from core temp or the 7c?
  5. Ill shut down and check the bios. If it's right Is 3c dangerous? Should I be worried about it?
  6. I don't know what cooler she's using. It's not after market though. I don't have the money to buy an after market cooler. I do like my room a bit cooler but it's definitely not 3c. It's about 64 maybe 61 in here.
  7. I stopped the stress and this is what I got through another software. 23 is what she topped out through the stress.
  8. Is this temp safe on a amd fx-8300 air cooled under a 47% load? I mean isn't 3c almost freezing? Can that damage my processor?
  9. The new CX650 is installed and am currently playing the outer worlds. Thanks for all the help peops.
  10. Update: I decided to throw caution to the wind and test the PSU's short protection by creating a short in the molex. The PSU and MB do the same thing as before when the short occurs. The PC shuts down but the power light stays on. I cannot reboot the PC until I flip the switch. Does this mean the PSU is shorting when I put the GPU under load and it's doing what it should, shutting down? If so does that means the PSU is not the problem and the board is shorting something when the GPU is under load? Is that even possible? OR does it mean the PSU is shorting when the power draw increases? That doesn't make much sense since I can stress the CPU, the memory, the FPU and the HDD in Aida64 all at once and have no problems. The only time the shut down occurs is when the GPU is stressed. Again though the GPU works just fine in another machine. Banging my head against a wall here.
  11. Thank you for the info. I'm asking a friend on facebook if they'll let me use their PS to test to see if it's the board If it isn't the board then I'll order that PSU you guys have been a great help. Thanks so much
  12. There is a Corsair 650w CX for 60 ish bucks That's on the B+ tier if I'm reading the list right. Would it do?
  13. I reset the bios before I did the reinstall of Windows 10. Even pulled out the battery and left it for an hour just to make sure. I live in Gaffney SC that's about as far into the woods as you can get really so unfortunately for me there are no computer repair shops around for quite a bit. I think Spartanburg has one that's like 60 miles away but they don't stock parts. He can order it but it'll take 4 days and I can have one shipped to my house in 2 days and save the gas lol. I thought about going to good will and seeing if they had anything but they don't even have computers at the Good will near me except like 20 year old Dell machines.
  14. Yea the PSU is awful but to be honest I didn't know anything about PSUs when I bought it, still don't to be completely honest. It did the job for 3 years with the gtx 650 and for like 2 years ish with the 1050ti until that moment when the issues started. I know it's probably a good idea to replace it with something better and I'm looking at a corsair 650 as the replacement if the PSU if it's the culprit. Any thoughts?
  15. So the PSU needs to be bigger than 600w? So it might be the PSU after all?
  16. No sag and I swapped the card into the other PCI-E slot just now to check and still the same issue. Thanks for the fast reply though.
  17. Hey guys. I have an issue and not one I can troubleshoot fully and don't know where to post this. I'm posting it in PSU because maybe the PSU is at fault. Here's my problem: I recently had a few issues where my computer occasionally powered down unexpectedly during a game but the power light was staying on. I had to unplug the PSU to get the light to go off before I could power the board again. Occasionally the USB wouldn't recognize my mouse and keyboard after reboot. If I rebooted 2 or 3 times it would work but once it shut down unexpectedly again, with the power light still on, the USB wouldn't work until I rebooted 2 or 3 more times. Last week my computer shut down unexpectedly and the computer would post but my screen had weird red and green "static" and "lines" running across it. I shut down and reseated my video card and rebooted. The system posted but I all I got was a black screen with the backlight on as if the monitor was receiving the signal but the signal was empty. I knew at that point my GPU was gone so I put it in another board, my dads system, and yea it's toasted. Lines everywhere on the screen. I replaced the GTX 1050ti Saturday with an RX 580 8gb. I even got desperate and formatted the HDD and reinstalled windows 10. The system came on and had no issue until I loaded a game up and it shut down again with the power light on. Every since then the system shuts down the second the GPU is put under stress. I can load up youtube and other sites just fine but any game or any stress test on the GPU and boom the system goes down with the power light staying on and I have to unplug the PSU or flip the switch to be able to power the board back on. I don't think it's the video card, it's new and works just fine in my dad's computer, but it could cause damage to the new video card if this continues and I'd really like to get back to my games. I took the PSU out and took the cover off today and I can see a brown spot on the board under a diode (least I think it's a diode) I can't find any schematics for the PSU to find out what that diode goes to so I'm unsure if it's the PSU at fault or the motherboard. It could be the board but there is zero visible damage to the motherboard and it passes every stress test except GPU. I've tested the molex on the PSU and voltage reads 5.1 for the 5v and 12.6 for the 12v but Aida 64 says the board voltage sensor says it's 11.6v for the 12v and 4.6 to 4.8 for the 5v. What's even more confusing is HWinfo says the voltage is reading 4.8 for the 12v and 4.6 for the 5v. But as I said I tested the molex and the voltage is fine (or it's fine to the best of my knowledge). Here's the crux. I'm disabled and living off a VERY limited budget of 600 bucks a month of which 450 comes right out for bills. I cannot afford to purchase both the board and PSU this month because I just blew everything I had left over after letting my phone bill go to buy the new GPU. I don't know what the problem is but I'm pretty sure it's down to MB or PSU at this point. My dad's PSU won't work with my board because he doesn't have the extra power line for the processor and it's only a 350 watt PSU. We had to use a molex to PCI-E adapter just to power the GPU in his machine to make sure the GPU works and it does for what games he has which is runescape but I can't even get that to load before the system shuts down on my machine. Here's the specs: AMD fx 8300 processor Biostar TA970 rev. 5.3 Motherboard 12 gigs of corsair vengence ddr 3 Thermaltake tr2 600w PSU (yes I know it's a horrible PSU but it was 30 bucks and all I could afford) Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8gb video card. (was a gtx 1050ti but that let out the magic smoke) Running windows 10 pro. Keyboard and mouse are just a plain Onn keyboard and mouse combo I got at Wal-Mart. Any thoughts as to which is more likely the culprit? I think it maybe the PCI-E is halfway gone on the board and the board is triggering the overvoltage protection or the PSU is bad. I can probably scrounge up 60 bucks for a MB or a PSU but I definitely can't afford both. Any way to test the PCI-E on the board without stressing the GPU? Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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