No signal from GPU to monitor. Urgent fix needed.

[Davehaslanded]

 Okay here is a summary of the issue.  Nothing had changed on my computer.  There had been no windows updates or graphics card driver updates.  I'd switched my computer off one night, and the next morning the problems appeared from nowhere. 

 

 Upon switching on my computer, the GPU is failing to put out to signal to any monitor I try with it,  either in display port or HDMI. I have done the standard troubleshooting procedures, (bios reset, disable OC, system restore, power off and drain power and reboot etc) 

 

 Here is the odd thing about the issue.  If I am plugged the power cables and remove the graphics card, and then simply put everything back in its place again. The knee issue disappears temporarily, for a few hours.  However, upon boots in a few hours later, or after a system crash, I have to go through the whole procedure again to get the system to boot.  The GPU in question is a GTX 1080.  I am using a 1200W power supply.  Full specs can be found in my signature below. 

 

Does anyone have any ideas? I am I freelance photographer, and I need my computer this weekend to do editing. So this is a pretty urgent issue. Thanks. 

[Guest]

No idea about how to fix this, but it sounds like your hardware is failing.

 

If you have other PCI-e slots, try your GPU in that one.

 

If that does not work, most likely it's your GPU.

 

When you get it to work after these steps, just DONT turn off your computer, and TRY not to crash it... Could get you through this important weekend.

[Mick Naughty]

Had to cycle inputs on my monitor or turn it off and back on to get signal when I first got my strix. 

[Davehaslanded]

21 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

No idea about how to fix this, but it sounds like your hardware is failing.

 

If you have other PCI-e slots, try your GPU in that one.

 

If that does not work, most likely it's your GPU.

 

When you get it to work after these steps, just DONT turn off your computer, and TRY not to crash it... Could get you through this important weekend.

The problem is none of this hardware is more than a year old. I may try a different psu if the problem continues. 

[Guest]

Even a brand new car can have a failure within 1 minute...

[Mick Naughty]

Like stated, why is the system crashing?

 

prolly gonna be the biggest clue. 

[App4that]

Asks for help, says that can't be it...

 

Try the card in another PCI slot. 

[Davehaslanded]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

Like stated, why is the system crashing?

 

prolly gonna be the biggest clue. 

To be fair the crash has only happened once so far. And just came up Kernal error as most crashes do. It's all very confusing. 

[Guest]

28 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

If you have other PCI-e slots, try your GPU in that one.

 

1 minute ago, App4that said:

Asks for help, says that can't be it...

 

Try the card in another PCI slot. 

Great advice, I can't but agree on it. If you were 27 minutes faster however...

[App4that]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

 

Great advice, I can't but agree on it. If you were 27 minutes faster however...

I was, instructing them to follow your advice. Which is sound btw. 

[Davehaslanded]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

 

Great advice, I can't but agree on it. If you were 27 minutes faster however...

I don't have a spare pci slot. My wifi card takes up the other slot. But I'll give it a go later if/when the issue reoccurs. The only reason I'm hesitant to believe it's the pci slot is that wouldn't explain why removing the psu cables and re connecting them fixes the issue sometimes. 

[Guest]

@App4thatIt's all good. Just not with Davehaslanded his computer... And if the crash only happened once, and considering you CAN get it to work untill your next reboot, my first post had the best answer already.

 

You needed an urgent fix, to get through the weekend... Get your computer to boot, don't turn it off, do a permanent fix or replacement of some component, after the weekend.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Davehaslanded said:

I don't have a spare pci slot. My wifi card takes up the other slot. But I'll give it a go later if/when the issue reoccurs. The only reason I'm hesitant to believe it's the pci slot is that wouldn't explain why removing the psu cables and re connecting them fixes the issue sometimes. 

Could be one of them condensators (or whatever they are called) don't propperly empty on your GPU, so you needed to unplug everything for them GPU thingies to go flat.

 

Also, if your PSU would be your problem, it should not be "fixable" like you did manage. PSU only has to supply (stable) power, nothing moar. And considering you weren't really crashing because of some obvious PSU issiue, me thinks there is a mobo or GPU problem.

[App4that]

Pulling the power cable re sets the power supply. Can mean the power supply is failing, but might not. 

 

Download GPU-Z is you don't already have it. Run the PCI test, it's the question mark on the right side towards the middle. That will tell you it the slot is to blame. 

[Davehaslanded]

Thanks guys. I do appreciate the advice. I'm just worried as I'm working Xmas eve night in a club and don't finish until 2am. Really don't want to get in and have to disassemble pc. Lol

[Davehaslanded]

Ok so latest trial. No crash, Pc starts fine. Sound to speakers is ok and I can log in. But no signal to monitor at all. 

[Guest]

How can you log in, when you can't see what you are typing where?

[Davehaslanded]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

How can you log in, when you can't see what you are typing where?

Memory. Lol. Windows automatically brings up password entry on boot. 

[Guest]

Sooo... Everything is working fine, except your GPU... And you can't get it to work RIGHT NOW, right? I see you have a second pc. As a temporary fix, you could use the GTX 980 G1 windforce out of your gaming computer. Then you can acces them files/do some work, untill the weekend is over.

 

*is me smart or is me smart*

[Mick Naughty]

No onboard graphics?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

No onboard graphics?

Not sure if he has, but if he does have onboard graphics... Don't think his onboard video would work well enough for him to work effectively.

[App4that]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Not sure if he has, but if he does have onboard graphics... Don't think his onboard video would work well enough for him to work effectively.

He has a 4790k, that means the mighty HD4600. I overclocked mine by 100%. 

 

You think I'm kidding? I never joke about the mighty HD4600.

[Davehaslanded]

7 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Sooo... Everything is working fine, except your GPU... And you can't get it to work RIGHT NOW, right? I see you have a second pc. As a temporary fix, you could use the GTX 980 G1 windforce out of your gaming computer. Then you can acces them files/do some work, untill the weekend is over.

 

*is me smart or is me smart*

Second pc doesn't have Upto date software and my Lightroom catalog on it. Just put a reference gtx 980 in pc. Testing now. 

6 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

No onboard graphics?

On board graphics work fine. But GPU acceleration makes photo editing and exporting a hell of a lot quicker. There's a hell of a difference between an iGPU and gtx 1080

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, App4that said:

He has a 4790k, that means the mighty HD4600. I overclocked mine by 100%. 

 

You think I'm kidding? I never joke about the mighty HD4600.

That beats my Radeon HD7560D with 2 gb of ram...

 

3 minutes ago, Davehaslanded said:

Second pc doesn't have Upto date software and my Lightroom catalog on it. Just put a reference gtx 980 in pc. Testing now. 

Then you didn't understand me that well. Take out the 980 from your gaming computer. Put it in your workhorse computer, you can do your work now. (only a bit slower me thinks)

[Davehaslanded]

25 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

That beats my Radeon HD7560D with 2 gb of ram...

 

Then you didn't understand me that well. Take out the 980 from your gaming computer. Put it in your workhorse computer, you can do your work now. (only a bit slower me thinks)

Ah yes trying that now with a reference gtx 980 I have spare. So far 3 boots have worked fine. I have noticed the gtx 1080 has a dual bios. Going to try switching to 2nd bios. 

 

Update: reinstalled the 1080 with its second bios selected on the card. Currently haven't had an issue after a couple of boots. I guess next few hours will tell if it's a 'fix' or not. 

Edited December 23, 2016 by Davehaslanded
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