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sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 9:44 PM

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So I was playing ultrakill over parsec and my gameplay freezes and my screen hooked up to my pc was black and now my GPU is not being detected on my system and it won’t boot into windows. Now I don’t know what to do

rx 6600
ryzen 5500

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:35 PM

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Take it out, re-seat it

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If that doesnt work, it could mean that its dead, or that the slot is damaged.
Do you have another card you could try?

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:38 PM

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I don’t have another card and I know it’s not the motherboard because I just got a new one

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:38 PM

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Welp, try uninstalling the graphics card, and put it back in

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:38 PM

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Did that and nothing changed

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:40 PM

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Oof

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No on board graphics?

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:41 PM

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Nope

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:41 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/big-oof-size-small-medium-switch-gif-17355313

Tenor

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Do you have another system laying abouts?

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:42 PM

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Yea but I’m using them as servers and they don’t have dedicated graphics

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:43 PM

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Hmm, does the PCIe slot or the gpu itself have any sort of damage?

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:44 PM

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Doesn’t seem like it

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:44 PM

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Okay so

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Im sure there are very scientific ways of testing this

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:44 PM

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paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:45 PM

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Looks good to me
Did the gpu work with your old motherboard?

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:46 PM

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It did for a year then the top pcie slot stopped working

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:46 PM

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Well youve had lots of bad luck then

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:46 PM

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sick creek It did for a year then the top pcie slot stopped working

Is there only one pcie on this new motherboard?

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:47 PM

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Yea

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:47 PM

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Im dumb, i can see that on the picture

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Does the lower one on yiur old motherboard still work?

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:48 PM

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I don’t think it does anymore

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:49 PM

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Well shit

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I dont think that light would come on if there was a faulty screen

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Maybe it does idk tbh

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Wait

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In every pcie slot this card has been in, has been ruined, right?

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:51 PM

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I don’t think so

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:52 PM

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Maybe the card shorts or something and the pcie on the motherboard takes the damage

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:53 PM

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When I turn off the system the gpu fans go a little then stop

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:53 PM

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Hmm

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:53 PM

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paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:54 PM

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Could it be a bad or loose power cable to the ~~cpu~~?

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Sorry, GPU*

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:56 PM

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Maybe. When I was troubleshooting my server I plugged in my gpu to it and it wasn’t turning on but when I took out the gpu it turned on

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:57 PM

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Hml

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How long have you had this gpu?

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 10:58 PM

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Since the Christmas of 23

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 10:58 PM

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Oh its pretty recenr series

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So. I would try to get a hold of a graphics card, literally anything would work. An old friends gtx960 or whatever

It that works, we know that the PCIe on the motherbpard works

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And as you said the server didnt like the GPU, so it is possibly that the GPU is the issue.
Its just a whole lotta money getting a new one

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 11:02 PM

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Yea also I did smell burning from the gpus power cord after i put the gpu in the server

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 11:03 PM

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I think the gpu is dead then. How's the warranty?

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 11:03 PM

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I don’t know how to check it, the ASRock warranty thing is confusing to me

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 11:10 PM

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Welp

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 11:18 PM

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It just booted

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I swapped the power cord from one port on the power supply and the gpu spinned to life

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I’ll do a benchmark to make sure it’s working correctly

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It seems to be running good

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 11:41 PM

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Welp there we go, maybe a bad psu then

sick creek Mar 4, 2025, 11:41 PM

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Maybe

paper sage Mar 4, 2025, 11:41 PM

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But the gpu still smoked from when you put it in the server

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