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Troubleshooting someone else card in my PC.

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Crusheddream
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2011/11/22 10:02:39 (permalink)
So at the moment im running SLI 570 GTXs OCed.  My step fathers PC has been randomly shutting down.  Ive narrowed it down to the video card or power supply.  Im thinking its actually the PSU since its doing a full restart just idling on the desktop.  But i want to test his 275 just incase.  I know obviously ill have to turn off MSI Afterburner.  Should i reinstall the drivers too? Hes running the same drivers as myself.  Or can i just plug it in let windows recognize it and then stress test and bench it? I would pull my PSU out to try in his PC but i used zip ties to put it in and the wires are all nice and hidden and dont want to go through that trouble.  Any suggestions?

 

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    Re:Troubleshooting someone else card in my PC. 2011/11/23 07:11:25 (permalink)
    If you have a different model video card I would uninstall your drivers and install the version he is using for his card.
     
    Is his system getting a blue screen of death indicating anything or is it a clean reboot without error?  In my experience, clean reboots with no blue screen or flash of a blue screen usually is a hardware failure of some kind, most commonly PSU or motherboard in my experience (not a SW/Driver issue).
     
    You may have to adjust windows to not automatically restart when there's a blue screen of death.  This will help you troubleshoot the issue if a BSOD is happening because it will leave it on the screen long enough for you to write down and google!

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    Re:Troubleshooting someone else card in my PC. 2011/11/23 07:28:40 (permalink)
    Alternatively you could make a Linux boot disk... then just run around the existing Windows install.

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