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Title: Is my 5970 dead? Post by: macbook-air on March 07, 2012, 11:56:08 PM I recently got a MSI 5970. My PSU is not powerful enough so I plugged the mainboard and the graphics card's PCI-E 6-pin to one PSU and the 8-pin to another. In case of power failure, the card usually has a red LED on. But this morning, when I was trying to turn the rig off, I first removed the second PSU (PCI-E 8-pin) then the main PSU. The graphics card then never back on. A system reboot result of no signal, no BIOS power-on self-test, no one short beep from mainboard. Is it recoverable?
Title: Re: Is my 5970 dead? Post by: WhitePhantom on March 08, 2012, 12:09:54 AM Depending on how strong your primary power supply is, it's possible that it's damaged from being pushed too hard.
I once mined with a 5850 with an old 330W PSU for about 10 hours before it failed. The PC would kind of turn on (fans spinning), but nothing would happen. I replaced the PSU and everything worked fine. If you have a weaker video card available, give it a try, and use the secondary PSU to power the whole system. If it works, you know the problem is either the 5970 or the PSU (more likely?). Title: Re: Is my 5970 dead? Post by: macbook-air on March 08, 2012, 11:36:55 AM Depending on how strong your primary power supply is, it's possible that it's damaged from being pushed too hard. I once mined with a 5850 with an old 330W PSU for about 10 hours before it failed. The PC would kind of turn on (fans spinning), but nothing would happen. I replaced the PSU and everything worked fine. If you have a weaker video card available, give it a try, and use the secondary PSU to power the whole system. If it works, you know the problem is either the 5970 or the PSU (more likely?). I have four 5970s actually, two were damaged this way. It's so bad... I sometime hotplug my 5830s to PSU and PCI-E and they are still working very well... Title: Re: Is my 5970 dead? Post by: Miner612 on March 09, 2012, 07:34:36 PM I was gonna offer assistance, but then I noticed your username.
douche. Title: Re: Is my 5970 dead? Post by: rjk on March 09, 2012, 07:35:12 PM I was gonna offer assistance, but then I noticed your username. Lol ;Ddouche. Title: Re: Is my 5970 dead? Post by: allinvain on March 10, 2012, 06:59:39 PM Depending on how strong your primary power supply is, it's possible that it's damaged from being pushed too hard. I once mined with a 5850 with an old 330W PSU for about 10 hours before it failed. The PC would kind of turn on (fans spinning), but nothing would happen. I replaced the PSU and everything worked fine. If you have a weaker video card available, give it a try, and use the secondary PSU to power the whole system. If it works, you know the problem is either the 5970 or the PSU (more likely?). I have four 5970s actually, two were damaged this way. It's so bad... I sometime hotplug my 5830s to PSU and PCI-E and they are still working very well... Whoa, hold on a second. You have 4 5970s and you already damaged two of them because of an inadequate power setup?!?! Dude, do yourself a favor and get a decend power supply ~ 1000W and up!!! Stop killing the 5970s -it's a crime and you should be arrested :) lol |