Smoking GPU

[StormPrince]

Yesterday my PC turned off, completely and wouldn’t turn back on. My router which was plugged into the same power socket also restarted.

It will not post either way, but it wont even turn on if the left 4pin is plugged in but if only the right 4pin then it will turn on however, no display output.

 

There was smoke coming from the GPU when I first plugged the 4 pins back in.

I’ve reseated RAM + GPU

 

 

specs:

i7-4790k

GTX 980 ti Waterforce Xtreme GAMING 

240 GB sandisk SSD

750W corsair bronze PSU

16GB corsair vengence pro RAM

[aisle9]

If your GPU is smoking, your RAM isn't the problem. RIP

[CPT_BEEMO]

Sarcastic me would cringe and say Y U LET THE SMOKE OUT BRO

 

Non-sarcastic me would say something if not all of it is fried. I would recommend taking the system into your local PC parts and service center and have them bench test the components (all of them) and see if everything is okay/damaged whatever the case may be.

 

F.

[StormPrince]

Thank you for that input?

 

I”m fairly sure the left power connector is broken, but the other ones are working fine (theres still two as theres an extra one for overclocking so I was wondering if it was possible to deliever power through that.

[RollinLower]

yep, smoke means something burned/popped. take the GPU out and look in the PCB. maybe you can see a component that is black or burned.

[Tristerin]

When the magic smoke is let out of the box it will no longer work as intended.  If GPU was smoking then RIP 

 

Can you use the other socket for CPU power delivery?  You could try but personally I would investigate the WHY before possibly frying more hardware

[StormPrince]

I don’t know what you mean by another socket for CPU power?

 

Also now its on a continuous boot up and shut down loop.

Still no video output.

- I reset the CMOS again and ended up in the cycle

[toasty99]

Throw the GPU out. 

 

Buy a new one. 

 

Problem solved. 

/s

 

Now seriously, if you have a component in your PC smoking it's not a good idea to keep it in there. Toss it in the trash and get a new video card. Repairing them isn't easy and a repair shop is gonna charge enough that it's not worth it on a 980ti. 

[StormPrince]

I managed to get the system to boot and play games like normal.

But the CPU is over heating (100 degrees on boot)

so I'm going to open a new thread to diagnose that