NVMe Boot Drive Died, took it out and now the GPU won't display anything

Posted by AmuseDeath@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 5 comments

This is for a friend, so this is off the top of my head:

Parts:

- EVGA RTX 2070

- 40GB of RAM

- Intel i7-7800X Processor

- EVGA PSU Gold (I think 750w)

- Samsung 4TB SSD

- 2TB HDD (not sure make)

- Sabrent 512GB M.2 NVMe (99% it was the issue and took out)

- MSI motherboard

Problem:

The computer was having a lot of issues such as the mouse cursor not appearing. Then one day, the PC had a huge issue where it would freeze. Then when starting up the PC, it would get to the motherboard screen where it would say repair and then go to a blue screen where it would ask to reinstall Windows.

I had encountered this before on my personal laptop which funny enough ALSO had the exact same NVMe, which is the 512GB Sabrent that failed.

Actions:

Before I got to that realization, I opened the PC up and inspected the PSU which looked fine and it's high quality EVGA Gold I think 750w. But then I decided it might be that the NVMe died. So I had to take out the GPU because it was under there. Lo and behold it was the Sabrent 512GB. I took the NVMe out, put the GPU back in. The 4TB SSD and HDD are still connected to the motherboard, but when I replugged everything back in and turned the PC on, no display appears on the monitors. There's a widescreen MSI monitor that is at 75hz and a normal monitor that is also 75hz. I tested them both with HDMI and DisplayPort cables and they both do not show anything.

I'm 99% sure it is something going on with the GPU. I've made sure the GPU is mounted properly and when turned on the lights on the side light up. The GPU is in the same spot as it was when it did post on the monitor and it's firmly in the slot. I'm not sure what is going on with the GPU. Again it is an EVGA RTX 2070. The GPU won't post.

I'm going to try using my older RX 580 to see if something can be done. I just don't know what to do.