Weird GPU Problem

[Triventular]

So I had my gtx 970 which I bought 2nd hand for a few months now. my problem with it at first is that if it sags down on my motherboard, it won't work properly so i made a small stand for it to help it and now it works fine. now the problem is back.. its worse because now its not working even with the stand in place and it only works whenever i push the card against the motherboard before i boot it. when i shut it down, its gonna "reset" to its faulty state and, again, i have to push it against the mobo to make it run again. what can do i to fix this problem? 

 

I think its my mobo that is causing this or is it the card itself being too heavy(kinda stupid)?

[jiyeon]

Assuming your motherboard's PCIe slots work perfectly fine, it's probably down to your 970's PCIe bracket. If you have another card on hand, try that into your existing motherboard.

 

You did mention it's a second-hand GTX 970 which will mean it's probably been used and abused a bunch of times before you obtained it, possibly leading straight to your issue.

[Windows7ge]

I've run into this issue 2ce over the course of years and 2 motherboards. Really heavy GPUs (like if you watercool them) lose connection over time when the motherboard is mounted vertically. The only solution I found to counteract this effect was to find either a case or use a testbed that lets me mount the motherboard laid-down. This way the weight of the GPU is pushing it flat down into the socket. Not sideways. You can test this by laying your case sideways. If everything becomes stable again. That's your problem.

[DocSwag]

What mobo?

 

The gpu's IO portion is screwed into the case, right?

[Triventular]

44 minutes ago, MiNy said:

Assuming your motherboard's PCIe slots work perfectly fine, it's probably down to your 970's PCIe bracket. If you have another card on hand, try that into your existing motherboard.

 

You did mention it's a second-hand GTX 970 which will mean it's probably been used and abused a bunch of times before you obtained it, possibly leading straight to your issue.

well yeah it was kinda a red flag for me to buy because the seller said he was running windows 7 with old drivers on it and not the latest one. unfortunately i don't have other cards with me. the ones i owned were a gtx 560 which was heavy but significantly shorter than the 970 and a 1050 which was very light. I'll try and test it if its the card of the slot sometime

 

46 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

I've run into this issue 2ce over the course of years and 2 motherboards. Really heavy GPUs (like if you watercool them) lose connection over time when the motherboard is mounted vertically. The only solution I found to counteract this effect was to find either a case or use a testbed that lets me mount the motherboard laid-down. This way the weight of the GPU is pushing it flat down into the socket. Not sideways. You can test this by laying your case sideways. If everything becomes stable again. That's your problem.

that's what i was guess is happening.. because i laid everything flat before i got a case for my pc with my 1050 like this

i didn't set it on a box and all gpus have an extra part of the io bracket which in turn kinda screwed with the pci-e.. is this the root of my problem?

 

32 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

What mobo?

 

The gpu's IO portion is screwed into the case, right?

ECS H61H2-M2 and if you mean the part where you screw it on the case then its screwed in with 2 screws. I lift the card up before screwing it tightly to reduce the sag but that wasnt enough

[Windows7ge]

8 minutes ago, Triventular said:

i didn't set it on a box and all gpus have an extra part of the io bracket which in turn kinda screwed with the pci-e.. is this the root of my problem?

I cannot definitively say no but I don't think it was either. That's a pretty light card and so long as you didn't seriously jerk the card in some random direction while this was setup this way it's probably not the root of the problems.

[Triventular]

2 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

I cannot definitively say no but I don't think it was either. That's a pretty light card and so long as you didn't seriously jerk the card in some random direction while this was setup this way it's probably not the root of the problems.

i think it kinda misaligned some pins in the pci-e slot while i had it like this i just didn't notice it because the gold contacts on the 1050(its like there is some space between each contact)is different on the 970(its full of contacts). it sounds stupid haha i can't try out other cards if its really the card tho haha