No display with replacement GPU

[Stale Sweetroll]

I had problems last week where my GPU crashed and wouldn't display anything on boot up. Debug showed windows wasn't booting up either. I RMAd the card and just put the replacement in, and have the same damn problem. Probably isn't the card, but the pc has worked fine with the 5770 I've been running off of.

 

So I really need help guys. I don't know what to do. I uninstalled all drivers with DDU so it isn't that. Could it be the 8 pin connector? 5770 only needed the 6 pin. I don't know what to do and I just want to be able to use my Vive for the first time. Please help!

 

Here's my last thread about the issue in more detail for those interested 

 

[Silentsoul]

If you're referring to the power supply that is in your signature it should have came with more than 1 8pin cable. Have you tried a different one?

[Stale Sweetroll]

1 minute ago, Silentsoul said:

If you're referring to the power supply that is in your signature it should have came with more than 1 8pin cable. Have you tried a different one?

Not yet, I wasn't sure if that could lead to all this or not. It's all one 6 + 6 + 2 cable. I guess I'll give it a try, but if anyone has other ideas please let me know! I'm pretty desperate here.

[Bajantechnician]

5 minutes ago, Stale Sweetroll said:

Not yet, I wasn't sure if that could lead to all this or not. It's all one 6 + 6 + 2 cable. I guess I'll give it a try, but if anyone has other ideas please let me know! I'm pretty desperate here.

make sure pcie power is not poo

[Stale Sweetroll]

18 minutes ago, Silentsoul said:

If you're referring to the power supply that is in your signature it should have came with more than 1 8pin cable. Have you tried a different one?

Just used a different cable, still the same problem ?

10 minutes ago, Bajantechnician said:

make sure pcie power is not poo

It was powering another GPU  while I waited for the replacement, so Im not sure how else to verify that it's good.

[Bajantechnician]

8 minutes ago, Stale Sweetroll said:

Just used a different cable, still the same problem ?

It was powering another GPU  while I waited for the replacement, so Im not sure how else to verify that it's good.

thermaltake power testers

it might not be the power cable, and it might actually be the psu giving out incorrect power

[Stale Sweetroll]

41 minutes ago, Bajantechnician said:

thermaltake power testers

it might not be the power cable, and it might actually be the psu giving out incorrect power

Unfortunately I'll have to order that online most likely and wait a few days. Is there anything else I can do now? Furthermore, is there anything else it could be other than the PSU at this point? CMOS has been cleared, tried different PCI e slot, and everything was seemingly working fine when I had the other GPU with only the 6 pin installed.

 

I'm at my wit's end and honestly very frustrated that I waited a week for a refurbished card when apparently my old one wasn't  the issue. Shit happens I guess. At this point I'm tempted to overnight a replacement PSU instead of going through RMA and waiting another week.

[Bajantechnician]

17 hours ago, Stale Sweetroll said:

Unfortunately I'll have to order that online most likely and wait a few days. Is there anything else I can do now? Furthermore, is there anything else it could be other than the PSU at this point? CMOS has been cleared, tried different PCI e slot, and everything was seemingly working fine when I had the other GPU with only the 6 pin installed.

 

I'm at my wit's end and honestly very frustrated that I waited a week for a refurbished card when apparently my old one wasn't  the issue. Shit happens I guess. At this point I'm tempted to overnight a replacement PSU instead of going through RMA and waiting another week.

ud have to wait for the psu at this point

[Stale Sweetroll]

2 hours ago, Bajantechnician said:

ud have to wait for the psu at this point

The PSU was available for same-day delivery on Amazon, so it got here this morning. It's the same one I had, modular so I didn't change the cables, just the unit (and the GPU connector I previously swapped). Same issue, so it seems logical to rule that out. I've got a replacement motherboard coming in tonight that I'll try, because honestly it's the last thing I can think of that could be the cause.

 

An EVGA tech I called agreed that it makes the most sense, though I do struggle to understand why the PCI-e slots function just fine with an older GPU but wouldn't with a newer one. My very uneducated theory is that some sort of unstable power spike occurred in the PSU that didn't necessarily fry anything, but maybe compromised power delivery to the PCI-e sockets that renders them unable to power something like the 980 Ti? Not sure if this is possible, but it's all I can think of. 

[Stale Sweetroll]

So the motherboard replacement came in tonight. I swapped out all the PSU connectors this time, even the power cord so everything is fresh. Reseated everything to the new motherboard and tried again. Same. Exact. Problem. I removed one stick of ram, same issue. Removed the remaining stick and put the one I had removed back in, same issue. So it isn't the motherboard, it isn't the PSU, it isn't the RAM as far as I can tell, and if it's the GPU, it would be one of the greatest coincidences ever that a completely different card refurbished by EVGA and certified to work would come to me with the same problem. 

 

Yet that's all that remains, surely. It wouldn't be the HDD and SSD, since I don't think those would prevent me from even getting to BIOS, plus the fact that before booting into Windows, I can't imagine any reason they'd specifically discriminate against my 980 Ti and not the 5770. The only part remaining other than these things is the CPU. Like the hard drives, though, I can't comprehend any situation in which the CPU would cause issue with a specific graphics card, especially when it was already working with this CPU for months.

 

 

[Bajantechnician]

On 7/8/2016 at 10:49 PM, Stale Sweetroll said:

So the motherboard replacement came in tonight. I swapped out all the PSU connectors this time, even the power cord so everything is fresh. Reseated everything to the new motherboard and tried again. Same. Exact. Problem. I removed one stick of ram, same issue. Removed the remaining stick and put the one I had removed back in, same issue. So it isn't the motherboard, it isn't the PSU, it isn't the RAM as far as I can tell, and if it's the GPU, it would be one of the greatest coincidences ever that a completely different card refurbished by EVGA and certified to work would come to me with the same problem. 

 

Yet that's all that remains, surely. It wouldn't be the HDD and SSD, since I don't think those would prevent me from even getting to BIOS, plus the fact that before booting into Windows, I can't imagine any reason they'd specifically discriminate against my 980 Ti and not the 5770. The only part remaining other than these things is the CPU. Like the hard drives, though, I can't comprehend any situation in which the CPU would cause issue with a specific graphics card, especially when it was already working with this CPU for months.

 

 

tbh, might be the gpu at this point. there is a highly small chance that it may be the gpu again.

personally, i would rma it again.