No display issues with my PC

[JasonF0815]

Intermittent display issues with my PC

So my PC is in good health, albeit a little outdated.

Now and again, no display signal will reach the monitor.
Trying with HDMI, DVI and VGA.

Sometimes I got it working again by leaving the PC unplugged for a while,
Reseating the RAM and/or changing slots,
Jumping the CMOS or removing the battery for a while.

Just now I practically tried reseating each component, removing all peripherals, different wires, and still couldn’t get a display signal!

Confuses me how it’ll just happen when booting up at random, rest of the time everything works well!

Main specs are:

• Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P AM3+ Mobo
• AMD FX-6350 Black Edition CPU
• Gigabyte Radeon R7 260X Windforce 2x OC Rev.3 GPU
• 750 W Corsair RM series 80Plus gold modular PSU
• Corsair Vengeance Blue 8 GB DDR3 RAM

Really appreciate any ideas or help anyone has!
Thanks all!!!

[veeg]

Hello

Do you do any gaming?

[JasonF0815]

Hello

Do you do any gaming?

I do indeed

[veeg]

Ok.. it may be the gpu it came out in 2013. So how old is yours?

[JasonF0815]

Ok.. it may be the gpu it came out in 2013. So how old is yours?

Think I built the PC around 2013/14. So probably about that age.
Think it’s a GPU issue?

Annoyingly my motherboard has no display outputs, I don’t know how else I could test it otherwise

[veeg]

Let’s get some more input..

@Bruce

[Bruce]

could well be the GPU, or anything thing else really.
but GPU would be top of the list.

any chance you can get your hands on one for testing - friend, family, neighbour, work?

otherwise, for starts, you could strip the rig and reassemble it on a piece of cardboard on a table.
hopefully that process may highlight something, or just give an opportunity to clean everything!

[JasonF0815]

could well be the GPU, or anything thing else really.
but GPU would be top of the list.

any chance you can get your hands on one for testing - friend, family, neighbour, work?

otherwise, for starts, you could strip the rig and reassemble it on a piece of cardboard on a table.
hopefully that process may highlight something, or just give an opportunity to clean everything!

I’ll see if I can find anything around, thanks for the help guys! I know I have an old GPU somewhere.. ^^

Just so weird how it worked before by reseating the RAM or clearing the CMOS, or leaving it unplugged for a while. Probably turns out they had no actual bearing on the issue, just lined up to when it wanted to work or something ^^

Though this time I’ve not been able to get anything to work.

I’ll let you know how it goes or if I find anything if you like :')

Thanks again!

[Bruce]

just in case it is not the GPU, also try getting your hands on another PSU and memory if you can.
who knows - you may get lucky!
but at the end of the day, you are up to the “suck it and see” stage!

[JasonF0815]

just in case it is not the GPU, also try getting your hands on another PSU and memory if you can.
who knows - you may get lucky!
but at the end of the day, you are up to the “suck it and see” stage!

So I swapped out my GPU to a spare one I had.. no change.

Then put my original back in, and the display started working again! ??? So weird ???
Maybe the PCIe port is dodgy?

When it next plays up, I’ll keep looking.

[Bruce]

computers do that!

could have been the original card had oxidised contacts and taking it out and in cleaned them a bit, or the old card wasn’t compatible, or yes - PCIx slot is dodgy.