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Offline bacon8tr

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Snafu....
« on: February 04, 2012, 02:11:20 PM »
I don't know whats wrong but here is my problem.  This morning I fired up my rig and flew a couple sorties with no issues.  The wife ack started to get thick so I left the pc.  My teenage son asked if he could gv while I was away and I said sure.  After a few minutes my son comes in and tells me the pc is acting weird.  I get to the pc and find that the screen is all gray.  The game sounds are still playing but it soundes like they were stuck in a loop.  I could not input any key strokes or minimize the screen.  Cntrol alt delete  would not bring up task manager.  I asked my son what happened and he said that he was playing with the in game graphics settings and that when he checked one of boxes the screen went black then gray.  I had to turn the pc off via the power button.  When it restarted it will not boot.  No bios beeps or anything.  I tried this several times.  ALL fans are getting power including the fan on the graphics card.  I am thinking the graphics card fried for some reason but am also worried that something went wrong with the mobo.  The card isn't even three months old and the pc as a whole is less than four months old. Any ideas?
« Last Edit: February 04, 2012, 02:13:21 PM by bacon8tr »
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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2012, 02:16:33 PM »
did you have your cpu or graphics card or memory overclocked?

if you did, you should unplug the powercord and then clear the cmos using the cmos jumper............so it will start back up at default factory settings

just a suggestion

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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2012, 02:23:11 PM »
Sounds like it could be a number of things. I would get the PSU checked out which I suspect is tango uniform. If thats the case you might have more equipment to replace also.
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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2012, 02:23:23 PM »
TC yes it was over clocked.  But at the risk of sounding dumb where is the jumper and how do I clear it. On old mobos I know this was done by removing the battery. Mobo is a gigabyte 970A-D3.
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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2012, 02:25:04 PM »
Chalenge I'm hoping thats not the case but have that bad feeling it is  :mad:
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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2012, 02:28:09 PM »
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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2012, 02:29:37 PM »
Lower right corner.

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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2012, 02:31:22 PM »
Cc...just dug out the book.  Ill give it a shot....
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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2012, 02:46:01 PM »
 :banana: you guys are fantastic. That did the trick.  Any ideas what caused this so I can educate my son and I?
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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2012, 02:50:08 PM »
Quote from: bacon8tr on February 04, 2012, 02:46:01 PM
:banana: you guys are fantastic. That did the trick.  Any ideas what caused this so I can educate my son and I?

if he was tweaking around the advanced graphics, it might of overloaded the graphicscard's abilities ...... like for instance he bumped the shadow textures up to 8192 and  checked all the boxes ( or just some of the boxes )....... causing your graphicscard to not be able to keep up or maybe even overheated it....... something along them lines....  perhaps

edit: btw, glad you are back up and running......... but I would follow up with what Chalenge posted, and do a thorough check of your Motherboard, PSU and all other components  ( temps, fans working, voltage draw, etc.... ) just to  be safe

edit 2: Chalenge beat me to it, lol......

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« Last Edit: February 04, 2012, 02:55:08 PM by TequilaChaser »
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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2012, 02:52:05 PM »
I was thinking overheat of the GPU and possibly the PSU also. If your that close to the edge it doesnt take much. You might want to calculate your power requirements and check your PSUs ratings also.
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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2012, 02:58:49 PM »
TC and Chalenge will do.  Thanks again gents  :cheers:
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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2012, 03:53:44 PM »
Glad that it ended well and saving this event into my folder of "possible causes of crashes" for future reference.  :salute
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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2012, 10:37:31 PM »
Yet another reason I quit overclocking stuff years ago. I don't care how advanced cooling is these days or how much better the manufacturing processes are for XXXX chipmaker; you can never be close to 100% sure even with stock settings but I like my chances of longevity with hardware at stock settings 100% better than overclocking anything. JUST MY $.02 worth.
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Re: Snafu....
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2012, 09:05:57 PM »
Reschke....After this near fatal encounter I set everything back to stock settings.  Trust me it was real close to being a several hundred dollar screw up.  Lesson definitely learned.
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