Noob Question

[CJBerg]

Hi! Sorry if this is kind of a noob question.

 

I wanted to ask for your input about how I can go about troubleshooting an issue I recently encountered.

 

Quick glance at our old machine's specs:

Processor: Intel Core i7-2600

Motherboard: Asus TUF Sabertooth P67

Graphics Card (new): Galax GTX 1050 Ti

Graphics Card (old): Asus GT 1030 OC

RAM: 16GB Kingston DDR3 1600

 

So we recently bought a GTX 1050 Ti to replace the GT 1030 (which will then be used in another old computer). During the first few days, it was good... it was working as intended. You can even play some games with it. But after the 5th day, the computer was no longer displaying anything when it was booted (although I think it was still loading windows even without the display output, I kinda caught that sound when you insert a USB). I thought it was the card that was going bad so I tried to insert it in another PC... it worked! But if I plug it back into the Sabertooth, there's still no display. So the next thing that I thought was that the motherboard is going bad but I tried the GT 1030 again, booted it up and it's working. And please note, that latest Nvidia drivers are installed.

 

In summary:

- The Galax Card is working in another PC

- The Asus card is working in this Sabertooth PC.

- The Galax Card was previously working with the Sabertooth PC. Now, it won't display anything with this setup.

- The latest Nvidia drivers have been installed.

 

Could you give me some suggestions on how to troubleshoot this display issue?

 

Thank you.

[Haro]

Clear the cmos 

Clean the pcie slot 

Try the 1050ti in another pcie slot ( if possible ).

Edited July 2, 2020 by TofuHaroto

[Jurrunio]

You should get rid of the old driver install with DDU and reinstall them after getting the new card (even if it's still Nvidia and uses the same drivers)

 

16 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Use the i-gpu with the dgpu plugged in and check if it's detected.

I dont think P67 chipset supports iGPU, only Z68 does at its time if you also want overclocking support

[Haro]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

dont think P67 chipset supports iGPU, only Z68 does at its time if you also want overclocking support

Oh yea sorry 

My bad lol.

[CJBerg]

Thank you! I'll be trying out your suggestions later. I hope this works.

 

Out of curiosity though, I just wanna ask: why is it necessary to clear the CMOS? I mean when I first plugged the card in, I didn't fiddle around with any settings whatsoever. Could the 1050 Ti change any settings when attached? Sorry, noob question again.

 

Thank you for your patience.