Pc not posting after crash

NoVa_Snowball · August 9, 2021

My friend and I were playing Apex Legends when suddenly his pc crashed, he tried turning it back on and it did but doesn't post. In the pc after this there's a led on in the motherboard that says ez debug led vga, also one of the graphics fans doesn't spin on boot. We tried using different ports on the graphics card and monitor, reseating the graphics card, reseating the ram, using different cables to power the graphics card, using the other pcie slot, resetting the cmos and un plugging the cpu power cable and mobo power cable but none of these fixed it. He has a Ryzen 5 3600, rx 5700xt, msi b550 tomahawk, 2 sticks of 8gb 3600mhz ram, corsair rm750 power supply. His cpu does get pretty hot but has never caused any problems. Any suggestions would help a lot, thanks.

NoVa_Snowball · August 9, 2021

12 hours ago, c00face said:

the problem is it's not detecting your graphics card. usually it's the pci-e cables and the connector isn't properly connected (common mistake.) the issue is, if he's been gaming all this time with improperly connections, he could of blow his gpu and the gpu is now dead. first test another gpu works (most likely it'll will.) then you'll need to change cables (not swap, not getting the exact one.) when i say change cables, I'm talking a NON-tail cables, one that is rated for the 5600xt and is SINGLE. each of the pin connector must have its own cable connected directly to the PSU rated for the 5600xt. dont use the cable that came with the PSU (common mistake.)

remove the HDMI and use a DVI connection to the monitor instead. reseat the GPU, blow off the dust, and then restart to see if it'll work.

We put in a different graphics card (also a rx 5700xt) using the same cables and it works fine, so his gpu is probably blown?

NoVa_Snowball · August 10, 2021

5 hours ago, c00face said:

Do the other steps before coming to that conclusion. Read above. You're running the same cables that blew the other card, you trying to blow the rx 5700 too?

We did the other 5700xt before we saw this, and we tried everything you said, doesn't work.