LowEndPCGuy

Tried to get an answer here a few days ago, decided to try again Recently I've began playing Warzone, and immediately ran into this issue, on this game specifically. When I load up the game, everything runs perfectly fine, but if I tab out, or open any sort of overlay, when I return, moving my mouse drops the framerate from a steady 60 to the mid 20's. I opened a performance graph, and noticed that when I moved the mouse, my GPU usage also drops from around 90-100% to nearly 20%. Needless to say, this makes the game nearly unplayable, and requires a restart every time this problem occurs. My system runs an i5-3470, and a ZOTAC GTX 970 4gb, with 16gb of DDR3 RAM, and I'm sure this is above the minimum specifications. I've tried lowering my mouse's polling rate to 250 with no result. If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know, thank you!

It runs fine when this issue isn't happening, so I know that this isn't the issue, my pc definitely meets the minimum spec

Recently I've began playing Warzone, and immediately ran into this issue, on this game specifically. When I load up the game, everything runs perfectly fine, but if I tab out, or open any sort of overlay, when I return, moving my mouse drops the framerate from a steady 60 to the mid 20's. I opened a performance graph, and noticed that when I moved the mouse, my GPU usage also drops from around 90-100% to nearly 20%. Needless to say, this makes the game nearly unplayable, and requires a restart every time this problem occurs. My system runs an i5-3470, and a ZOTAC GTX 970 4gb, with 16gb of DDR3 RAM. I've tried lowering my mouse's polling rate to 250 with no result. If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know, thank you!

Thank you so much! The GPU is posting a signal like normal again, your advice worked first try.

How would I go about doing that? In the UEFI (dell motherboard, yknow) it says PCIe is enabled, but I'm not sure if that can still disable a display adapter

Yes, that's right

I am currently writing this on integrated graphics with my GPU sitting on a table beside me. A few days ago, I had a hard drive issue and tried to use the dell uefi's secure boot feature. Whenever I did this, however, my screen went black and the LED indicator on the monitor went from white meaning active to yellow meaning idle or no signal. Following this, I hard-reset the pc by holding the power button and allowed for a full power cycle. Nothing. I removed and reinstalled the GPU, nothing either. The GPU is receiving power, at the very least, because the fan is still working. It hasn't shown any sign of degradation in the days leading up to this, either. I don't think I am still in secure boot mode. My motherboard is a Dell custom sorta board, one from a slimline Dell Optiplex 9010, and is MATX. I do not know the specific model number. The GPU is a PNY GTX 460 1GB GDDR5.

I am currently writing this on integrated graphics with my GPU sitting on a table beside me. A few days ago, I had a hard drive issue and tried to use the dell uefi's secure boot feature. Whenever I did this, however, my screen went black and the LED indicator on the monitor went from white meaning active to yellow meaning idle or no signal. Following this, I hard-reset the pc by holding the power button and allowed for a full power cycle. Nothing. I removed and reinstalled the GPU, nothing either. I don't think I am still in secure boot mode. My motherboard is a Dell custom sorta board, one from a Dell Optiplex 9010, and is MATX. I do not know the specific model number. The GPU is a PNY GTX 460 1GB GDDR5.

What is CMOS?

So a few days ago, I was troubleshooting an issue I had with an HDD that I bought off of ebay. I went into my dell motherboard's UEFI and tried to boot into what i assumed was their version of Safe Mode. When i did this, however, my GPU stopped working. I hard reset the PC and did a power cycle with no results. I then took out the GPU and swapped to the IGPU on my i5-3470 over a vga cable. It seemed normal so I don't think it's in that mode anymore. If it helps, the GPU is a PNY GTX 460 1GB GDDR5. The cable i use on it is a mini-HDMI to HDMI.

I don't think so, basically the entire computer is inaccessible, and that was the only HDD i had

Hello, before I start I feel it should be noted this is my first PC build and I am extremely inexperienced at this sort of thing, I mainly built this PC to learn and get my foot in the door for low-end PC gaming. I've run into a huge issue with it, though. I have the PC set to boot off of a 1TB HDD as that is the only storage part I had at the time of building. It is connected to the SATA 0 port on my Dell motherboard and is also connected to the PSU. The first issue stems from the fact I accidentally ordered a 3.5 inch drive for a case that unbeknownst to me was incredibly thin. This PC was an upgrade project for a Dell Optiplex 7010, but I ordered the rather slim Desktop model rather than the larger tower model. Being strapped for cash, I just cut the case to fit the GPU and ran it with the side panel open, vowing to regularly clean any and all dust it picks up. Anyway, back to the issue at hand, the boot drive. When I boot, it flashes the normal boot sequence text, then the dell logo, and finally the windows logo. The dot circle begins spinning, and then it stops. At the same time, the HDD stops making noise as well, as if all read/write procedures stop as well. Any solutions? I have no other PCs to connect it to to format the drive as the only others in the house are either laptops or an all-in-one. I do have a 32GB flash drive on hand that I used to get the install media onto the computer, but seeing as I can't even fully boot, I don't have any idea as for what to do with it. Should I just throw in the towel and try to save for a new HDD/SSD or try to salvage what I have? Edit: forgot to mention I can access the UEFI although that seems to be it.

The Strider turned out to be the best option of the two, and will be great even with some light case modding, so this'll be the solving comment. Thanks a ton!

Welp, that's fine then, at this point I just want to get the thing to run

Will these PSUs fit into a case like mine? I feel it would've been helpful to mention the case itself is only 4 inches wide, or 10.16cm. I ask because on the website they look fairly beefy. On another note, do they have the correct cables? From what I can see, my current rig uses 2 molex cables for fans and not much else. I wouldn't feel good about buying one blindly, but the Strider sounds almost perfect. Can you verify if it would be fine?