Well I have been out of here for a while due to not liking the counter strike game and being a full time student and employee this summer I was mobbed.
Onto the issue I will describe in detail what has happened from the start and where I am at currently.
First off I just moved into a new apartment and thus just moved the pc as a whole so I assume it stopped working due to some shortage caused by dmg in the move.
My computer got all hooked up and running fine here for 2-3 days then died (shut off) randomly while playing Skyrim one day. I got frustrated and walked away. The fallowing day when I went to turn it on I received an error message on my monitor that read it's not receiving a signal. The computer sounded fine fans booted could hear the disk drive launch but the monitor received no signal.
With further looking at it and cleaning out the small amount of dust inside it (I clean it out with compressed air every 2-3 months) I discovered the fan attached to my video card (HD radeon 5500) is not running. This is what I assume is the biggest hint although I cannot find too much that says anything other than the video card is broken which as i will explain later I have determined isn't.
First check: Used an HDMI cord to connect it to the TV to test it. Still no signal received by the TV.
Assumption was that it was a bad Video Card. Tested my card into another computer and immediately received a signal on the monitor the fan ran just fine and the computer booted up just fine.
Asked a buddy of mine who after some checks thought maybe it was the motherboard given it is 3 years old and potentially might have some damage from the trade so online I found a new one that was exactly the same as my old one and installed it with no issues.
Result the same as before no change in the symptoms.
On Tuesday I am taking my computer and the psu to a friend an hr away that owns a pc repair company who has the tool that allows you to check the connections on the psu. As this is my last idea that potentially the PCI-E power connection isnt sending power to the card as it and it's fan worked fine when I plugged the Video card into another computer.
Onto the issue I will describe in detail what has happened from the start and where I am at currently.
First off I just moved into a new apartment and thus just moved the pc as a whole so I assume it stopped working due to some shortage caused by dmg in the move.
My computer got all hooked up and running fine here for 2-3 days then died (shut off) randomly while playing Skyrim one day. I got frustrated and walked away. The fallowing day when I went to turn it on I received an error message on my monitor that read it's not receiving a signal. The computer sounded fine fans booted could hear the disk drive launch but the monitor received no signal.
With further looking at it and cleaning out the small amount of dust inside it (I clean it out with compressed air every 2-3 months) I discovered the fan attached to my video card (HD radeon 5500) is not running. This is what I assume is the biggest hint although I cannot find too much that says anything other than the video card is broken which as i will explain later I have determined isn't.
First check: Used an HDMI cord to connect it to the TV to test it. Still no signal received by the TV.
Assumption was that it was a bad Video Card. Tested my card into another computer and immediately received a signal on the monitor the fan ran just fine and the computer booted up just fine.
Asked a buddy of mine who after some checks thought maybe it was the motherboard given it is 3 years old and potentially might have some damage from the trade so online I found a new one that was exactly the same as my old one and installed it with no issues.
Result the same as before no change in the symptoms.
On Tuesday I am taking my computer and the psu to a friend an hr away that owns a pc repair company who has the tool that allows you to check the connections on the psu. As this is my last idea that potentially the PCI-E power connection isnt sending power to the card as it and it's fan worked fine when I plugged the Video card into another computer.
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