Graphics cards dying

[lukas7]

My PC was working fine until about a week ago my graphics card (RX470) randomly died while using chrome (it still received power, rgb works and fan spinning but no signal at display) so I ordered a RTX 2070 to replace it since I needed an upgrade anyway and put  a spare R7 250X in for the mean time. Everything was working fine again (although with a R7 250X). 

Then, today I received my RTX 2070 and immediately installed it just to find that once I powered my PC on the gpu did not respond at all (no power or any sounds) and so I removed it and reinstalled my old card but now my R7 250X receives no power so my PC essentially doesn't work because I can't output anything to displays.

 

My PC specs (and their age):

Motherboard: ASUS Prime B450M-A II (upgraded 2021)

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600X (upgraded 2021)

GPU: explained above

Memory: Crucial Ballistix 2x8GB 3200mhz (2021)

PSU: EVGA 500B (2016)

 

I think my psu must have failed on me, though I did read on this forum that it was okay to have a 2070 with a 500w psu. What should I do/what happened?

 

 

 

[Gokul_P]

4 minutes ago, lukas7 said:

My PC was working fine until about a week ago my graphics card (RX470) randomly died while using chrome (it still received power, rgb works and fan spinning but no signal at display) so I ordered a RTX 2070 to replace it since I needed an upgrade anyway and put  a spare R7 250X in for the mean time. Everything was working fine again (although with a R7 250X). 

Then, today I received my RTX 2070 and immediately installed it just to find that once I powered my PC on the gpu did not respond at all (no power or any sounds) and so I removed it and reinstalled my old card but now my R7 250X receives no power so my PC essentially doesn't work because I can't output anything to displays.

 

My PC specs:

Motherboard: ASUS Prime B450M-A II (upgraded 2021)

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600X (upgraded 2021)

GPU: explained above

Memory: Crucial Ballistix 2x8GB 3200mhz (2021)

PSU: EVGA 500B 

 

I think my psu must have failed on me, though I did read on this forum that it was okay to have a 2070 with a 500w psu. What should I do/what happened?

 

 

 

What is your psu. W Is prob fine but psus can go bad and if you have a cheap one certainly it can take everything in your system with it

[porina]

2070 should be fine with a decent 500W PSU. I've run higher power GPUs like 980 Ti on a 450W something like Corsair CX450.

 

Anyway, weird problems booting after a hardware change could also be one of those random things. Double check you didn't loosen anything in the process, and that everything that should be connected is connected. Keep trying a bit longer, as it sometimes can take a while to work out the hardware change.

[lukas7]

2 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

What is your psu. W Is prob fine but psus can go bad and if you have a cheap one certainly it can take everything in your system with it

Evga 500b (under PC specs)

[deadlou666]

Sounds like a psu failure, I'd buy a new one and test, if it doesn't fix it you could always send it back, or, try your psu on another system if you have a spare on? 

[lukas7]

1 minute ago, deadlou666 said:

Sounds like a psu failure, I'd buy a new one and test, if it doesn't fix it you could always send it back, or, try your psu on another system if you have a spare on? 

Unfortunately I don't have a spare system to try it on, thanks for the suggestion though, my main concern is if all 3 of gpus are fried now, is that a possibility? my psu is high quality though so it seems very unlikely

[lukas7]

4 minutes ago, porina said:

2070 should be fine with a decent 500W PSU. I've run higher power GPUs like 980 Ti on a 450W something like Corsair CX450.

 

Anyway, weird problems booting after a hardware change could also be one of those random things. Double check you didn't loosen anything in the process, and that everything that should be connected is connected. Keep trying a bit longer, as it sometimes can take a while to work out the hardware change.

I don't really know what I could loosened up, I've double checked but everything seems in place but my gpu just won't receive power

[deadlou666]

10 minutes ago, lukas7 said:

Unfortunately I don't have a spare system to try it on, thanks for the suggestion though, my main concern is if all 3 of gpus are fried now, is that a possibility? my psu is high quality though so it seems very unlikely

They usually have overcurrent protection so any massive surge of current it shouldn't hurt ur gpu. Could you swap the gpu to a different pcie slot on the mb, failing that could you swap the pcie cable (if it's a modular psu) to a diff cable or diff pcie power port? 

[lukas7]

12 minutes ago, deadlou666 said:

They usually have overcurrent protection so any massive surge of current it shouldn't hurt ur gpu. Could you swap the gpu to a different pcie slot on the mb, failing that could you swap the pcie cable (if it's a modular psu) to a diff cable or diff pcie power port? 

1. only one pci e slot

2. non-modular psu

[deadlou666]

Just now, lukas7 said:

1. only one pci e slot

2. non-modular psu

Oh you've really cornered that there

[lukas7]

 

1 minute ago, deadlou666 said:

Oh you've really cornered that there

Yeah its my fault for cheaping out back in 2016, but there is some good news, my R7 250X appears to work now... I think I just didn't push it in to the slot hard enough... and I might be doing the same for the 2070. Yet I still have a question, if I plug in the gpu but its not in the slot properly, should it show signs of being powered?

[Harmsway1283]

What brands are your GPUs? Some have a warning LED near the 6 or 8 pin connector that will light up when it senses power through the PCIe slot but not the connector.

[deadlou666]

2 minutes ago, lukas7 said:

 

Yeah its my fault for cheaping out back in 2016, but there is some good news, my R7 250X appears to work now... I think I just didn't push it in to the slot hard enough... and I might be doing the same for the 2070. Yet I still have a question, if I plug in the gpu but its not in the slot properly, should it show signs of being powered?

You've got me there I have no idea....... I would assume not as I think it has to tell the board its there before it can get power instead of it pulling loads bc it would have no way of pulling it from the psu

[lukas7]

25 minutes ago, Harmsway1283 said:

What brands are your GPUs? Some have a warning LED near the 6 or 8 pin connector that will light up when it senses power through the PCIe slot but not the connector.

AMD: R7 250X, RX470, NVIDIA: RTX 2070.

I don't really notice any LEDs on in my system apart from the orange LED on my motherboard thats just permanently on as long my PC is on, where should I look to see this?

Edit: nvm you said near the connector