MSI GTX 960 2G graphics card failed output

[goldeneye76]

Hi,
I am having an issue with my GTX 960 2G card output failing. As a little background information, before this situation came up I tried to start my computer for the first time in a week, the last time I used it I put it in sleep mode. When I tried to start the computer nothing would happen. During troubleshooting, I checked the PSU, checked all connections of the power switch to the motherboard and finally removed the CMOS battery and that had solved the issue. After that issue was resolved I didn't get a chance until three days later to run it again. After I booted it up, I updated some games on steam and a couple standalone games I have, then I went on to start up a game. The game started up fine, however, I realized I did not have the audio output to my headphones, so I exited out of the game, changed the audio output and restarted the game. It got to the load progress screen and the screen went black and I heard a caution box come up but I couldn't read it. I restarted the computer and in 5 minutes the same thing happened. I looked at my GPU and noticed the LED's were on but the fans were not spinning. I rebooted the CPU again and again the same thing happened. I rebooted a third time and updated the Nvidia drivers yet it happened again. I left it for a day to do some research and found nothing. Tonight I booted into the BIOS to see if resetting the CMOS affected something and it quit on me again. I tried to boot back to windows and it quit before I got to the windows load screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Computer specs:
MSI Z170A M5 Gaming Motherboard
MSI Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 2G GPU
8Gb Ram
Intel i5 CPU
Windows 7 64bit OS

[MrMarriarty]

GPU + No Fans = FUBAR

 

It could be any number of things stopping the fans, they might be dead , a bad cap or bios on the card would be my favorite suspects, honestly just buy a new card

 

If you want to bodge it slap another fan on the heatsink and hook it up to a fan controler turned up it might work it might not

[Jurrunio]

Not sure whether fan stop function works on your card. It stops the fans from running when it's not that hot.

 

 

[goldeneye76]

I don't think my card has the fan stop feature because as soon as I turn it on the computer the fans come on, they only stop when the output craps out. I'm not sure how much more software troubleshooting I can do as it is failing too quickly now it seems.