Can a PC boot with a broken GPU?

[TheMooman]

I was just wondering if my PC could boot with a broken GPU because I recently had an old PSU break, and it seemed to have broken my HDD slightly, so I'm concerned whether or not my GPU could be damaged too. My motherboard doesn't have any sort of integrated graphics, by the way, and yet the PC still boots fine, it just takes a bit longer because of the damaged HDD. I can't really test any games because they just crash after a few seconds, which I was told by people on this forum was because of my HDD. Everything looks normal,  the card doesn't smell like it's burnt up or anything and both the fans seem to operate normally. The GPU is a Sapphire R9 270X 4GB, by the way.

[NeatSquidYT]

I think it'd boot

[desertcomputer]

Yea, if you CPU have built in graphic it should still boot up if you remove the GPU, and plugged your monitor on motherboard. 

[TheMooman]

Yea, if you CPU have built in graphic it should still boot up if you remove the GPU, and plugged your monitor on motherboard. 

So, seeing as my CPU doesn't have that, my GPU is fine, yes?

[desertcomputer]

So, seeing as my CPU doesn't have that, my GPU is fine, yes?

It should your hardrive? do you hear any weird sound coming from harddrive by any chance, you can always try now HHD if you have old one from another PC and see if it boot and up and dont crash fine, if that problem it probably your hard drive.

 

Another option if you have another computer and USB you can try having windows on USB and running that as bootdrive, if that work fine, it should copy your files to another harddrive if you have any stuff on it. You can go find a small/free OS such as Linux or you torrent it, if you already own one and dont have the CD.

 

Link How to do it:

http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/

[TheMooman]

It should your hardrive? do you hear any weird sound coming from harddrive by any chance, you can always try now HHD if you have old one from another PC and see if it boot and up and dont crash fine, if that problem it probably your hard drive.

 

Another option if you have another computer and USB you can try having windows on USB and running that as bootdrive, if that work fine, it should copy your files to another harddrive if you have any stuff on it. You can go find a small/free OS such as Linux or you torrent it, if you already own one and dont have the CD.

 

Link How to do it:

http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/

Thanks for the advice, and yes, I do hear a weird sound from the hard drive after it runs for a while. Sadly, I don't have any older hard drives available to try, but I'm currently saving up for a new one. I still have the CD for Windows 7, so I'll be fine with that. Thanks again for the care.

[sgloux3470]

It depends on how it is damaged, but generally no you won't get any video output on a dead GPU and the computer won't POST.

[-iSynthesis]

I was just wondering if my PC could boot with a broken GPU because I recently had an old PSU break, and it seemed to have broken my HDD slightly, so I'm concerned whether or not my GPU could be damaged too. My motherboard doesn't have any sort of integrated graphics, by the way, and yet the PC still boots fine, it just takes a bit longer because of the damaged HDD. I can't really test any games because they just crash after a few seconds, which I was told by people on this forum was because of my HDD. Everything looks normal,  the card doesn't smell like it's burnt up or anything and both the fans seem to operate normally. The GPU is a Sapphire R9 270X 4GB, by the way.

As far as i remember, it didnt when my 580 broke down.