Hi! Lately I've had a problem with my computer, and I was wondering what you would think of it.
My computer is a bit old (especially mobo, cpu and ram; the PSU was given to me by a relative, I think it's been used for five years?), its specs are:
-MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H
-CPU: intel i5-3570k
-GPU: Radeon RX 580
- 1 TB hard disk WD Blue
- PSU: xfx xps-650w-sew 80 plus bronze
- 8 GB of ram DDR3 (2x 2GB, 1x 4 GB)
Onto the problem: sometimes when I turn on the computer the monitor won't display anything. I say "sometimes", but to be honest recently this has only happened twice (and in general, I only think it has happened one other time half a year ago): once last week, in which case after disconnecting and reconnecting the displayport cable it started working again, and one other time yesterday, whereas it wasn't that simple.
Yesterday I wouldn't get anything on screen, no matter what I did: I tried rebooting it many times, connecting it to another monitor, to hdmi rather than displayport, tried to change ports, still nothing, the monitor wouldn't detect anything. The motherboard would do the usual single beep of "Everything is fine", but I noticed that the fans on the GPU would keep on spinning without stopping, whilst normally they would stop as it gets to windows.
I then tried connecting the hdmi port on the motherboard to use the cpu's graphics. This time it did show something, the initial "Gigabyte" screen, but after the loading on the Gigabyte screen the monitor would go back to "No signal", so I couldn't get to Windows. I removed the GPU from the mobo, tried again but I encountered the same behaviour.
I tried booting from an usb with Linux on it and it worked (still without the GPU)! I could use the computer with the iGPU on linux booted from usb, but for some reason not on windows.
So I backed up everything I needed, and today I tried connecting an old graphic card: this worked and got me into windows! So I took it out, tried connecting once again the original GPU, the RX 580, and it showed only the gigabyte logo, then the monitor went black; I tried powering the computer down (with a short press, not a long one), but it didn't shut down. I waited a bit, pressed it again, did this once more and on this third attempt the computer rebooted itself and now...it's working, got into windows, and I'm writing from this very pc at the moment.
To be honest, I have no idea what's happening: why the iGPU would not get me to windows, if all of this is the graphic card's fault, the mobo's fault, the PSU's fault, if it's just old hardware acting up. I have to say that other than this recently I haven't had any other problem: on Windows everything is great, no blue screen, no random reboots, even if I put a bit of pressure on the computer, for example with gaming, it doesn't stutter, everything seems to be fine and I'm pleased with how it works. I've only encountered this problem on boot
I was wondering what to do, and hoped I could get some advice here. In particular, the most important thing to me would be to preserve my GPU, because if/when I upgrade I'd still like to use it, so I was wondering: do you think it's the GPU fault? And if it's not, could it break because of this? And if that's the case: do you think it'd be smart to remove the GPU for the computer, preserve it for when the time for an upgrade comes and in the meantime use an older GPU I have?
I realize that these are "hard questions" and nobody would know what the absolute best course of action would be, nonetheless I would really like getting someone else's opinion on all this, because to be honest I have no idea where to go from here and any advice or even opinion would be greatly appreciated.
I'm sorry for the long post and for the English, thank you for reading it!
My computer is a bit old (especially mobo, cpu and ram; the PSU was given to me by a relative, I think it's been used for five years?), its specs are:
-MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H
-CPU: intel i5-3570k
-GPU: Radeon RX 580
- 1 TB hard disk WD Blue
- PSU: xfx xps-650w-sew 80 plus bronze
- 8 GB of ram DDR3 (2x 2GB, 1x 4 GB)
Onto the problem: sometimes when I turn on the computer the monitor won't display anything. I say "sometimes", but to be honest recently this has only happened twice (and in general, I only think it has happened one other time half a year ago): once last week, in which case after disconnecting and reconnecting the displayport cable it started working again, and one other time yesterday, whereas it wasn't that simple.
Yesterday I wouldn't get anything on screen, no matter what I did: I tried rebooting it many times, connecting it to another monitor, to hdmi rather than displayport, tried to change ports, still nothing, the monitor wouldn't detect anything. The motherboard would do the usual single beep of "Everything is fine", but I noticed that the fans on the GPU would keep on spinning without stopping, whilst normally they would stop as it gets to windows.
I then tried connecting the hdmi port on the motherboard to use the cpu's graphics. This time it did show something, the initial "Gigabyte" screen, but after the loading on the Gigabyte screen the monitor would go back to "No signal", so I couldn't get to Windows. I removed the GPU from the mobo, tried again but I encountered the same behaviour.
I tried booting from an usb with Linux on it and it worked (still without the GPU)! I could use the computer with the iGPU on linux booted from usb, but for some reason not on windows.
So I backed up everything I needed, and today I tried connecting an old graphic card: this worked and got me into windows! So I took it out, tried connecting once again the original GPU, the RX 580, and it showed only the gigabyte logo, then the monitor went black; I tried powering the computer down (with a short press, not a long one), but it didn't shut down. I waited a bit, pressed it again, did this once more and on this third attempt the computer rebooted itself and now...it's working, got into windows, and I'm writing from this very pc at the moment.
To be honest, I have no idea what's happening: why the iGPU would not get me to windows, if all of this is the graphic card's fault, the mobo's fault, the PSU's fault, if it's just old hardware acting up. I have to say that other than this recently I haven't had any other problem: on Windows everything is great, no blue screen, no random reboots, even if I put a bit of pressure on the computer, for example with gaming, it doesn't stutter, everything seems to be fine and I'm pleased with how it works. I've only encountered this problem on boot
I was wondering what to do, and hoped I could get some advice here. In particular, the most important thing to me would be to preserve my GPU, because if/when I upgrade I'd still like to use it, so I was wondering: do you think it's the GPU fault? And if it's not, could it break because of this? And if that's the case: do you think it'd be smart to remove the GPU for the computer, preserve it for when the time for an upgrade comes and in the meantime use an older GPU I have?
I realize that these are "hard questions" and nobody would know what the absolute best course of action would be, nonetheless I would really like getting someone else's opinion on all this, because to be honest I have no idea where to go from here and any advice or even opinion would be greatly appreciated.
I'm sorry for the long post and for the English, thank you for reading it!