Struggling to get my pc running with a new graphics card and each thing I try makes it worse
Posted by Apen_Koifish@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 11 comments
Just as the title currently states, today I attempted to upgrade my MSI 1050. Personally I do not know much more than that as it is a hand me down of a hand me down part. I had help and went with a MSI GeForce RTX 5060ti with Nvidia as that’s what I’ve been using for years has been Nvidia.
I had issues with it seating at first, and once I got it seated and plugged in. I had no power. Got power to the card, no display. I went to install my old one to see if I needed to install drivers, yet everyone I know who’s just upgraded the card from and old to a new keeping the same company (Nvidia) didn’t have to.
Now here’s where I’m lost, confused and overall at my wits end.
I installed the old one again, I had my motherboard light up like a dashboard on a beater car. All my lights came on. Turned it off assumed maybe the cmos needed to reboot, so I took that out waiting a minute, put back in. Still nothing got boot and that was it. So I went okay… well let’s try the new one again. Put that in. Same thing just the boot and nothing.
Did what I did best turn it off reset old one again. Now I have the lights like a Christmas tree all over again. Finally after turning it off and back on I have CPU and DRAM on. I have currently decided this is not my problem to fix tonight, maybe not even tomorrow night as I feel like I might just cry. I currently have my old MSI 1050 in there and the whole case still wide open just sitting there till I can figure out what I did wrong.
What did I do, what didn’t I do, what do I try next? That’s why I need help. I don’t know what to do but be done and decompress from my frustration. Has anyone else had this happen? Any ideas what happened? I’m just mentally exhausted and don’t know what to do anymore.
Parts list
CPU- AMD Ryzen 5
CPU Cooler- included with my Ryzen
Mother board- Asrock B550 Phantom Gaming
RAM- Ripped Jaws G.skill DDR4 (32 gb)
Storage- Samsung M.2 1TB
GPU- MSI 1050 / MSI 5060ti RTX
Case- Corsair iCue 4000D RGB
PSU- Corsair RM750e
Operating System- windows 11
Monitor- some random Samsung I bought from Best Buy
Intrepid_Screen6425@reddit
The very evidence you provided yourself without even looking back—you can already see the problem now, can't you?
1 - I had issues with it seating at first, and once I got it seated and plugged in
2 - ..and once I got it seated and plugged in. I had no power.
So, you have indirectly confirmed that you used brute force to shove the new card in horizontally—with excessive force and at an uneven angle. As for the auxiliary power pins, is it possible that you forced the wrong cable connector into the GPU? XDD
Apen_Koifish@reddit (OP)
No actually, I was quite gentle with it. I would say I sued the same amount an average person uses on a pin pad. It wasn’t like it went and popped in by itself, but I jiggled it, moved it, looked at it, tried again and again. I was actually on a FaceTime with my uncle and he asked “are you using no pressure? You might to push it in a bit. There’s usually a little bit of resistance to get it to click in”. So I was being very gentle as I know it’s a delicate part. You assumed I forced it in. You are assuming wrong. I figured out why it wasn’t going in and that was completely my fault from the jump 3 years ago. I didn’t put a spacer between the motherboard and the case so the motherboard is uneven in that spot. I got it in by removing the motherboard from the spacers and putting my finger under it and with very light pressure (mostly guidance) got it in. It clicked on its own. So the reason it wasn’t going in and the reason I left the old one in is because I was not smart putting it together 3 years ago and I’m not unplugging everything to move one over there when that method worked well enough to get it in.
Intrepid_Screen6425@reddit
Calm down, girl XDD.
My solution points out 2 symptoms. Did I ever say that both 1 and 2 are absolutely the cause of every single problem? Isn't that right?
Now, what about the auxiliary power pins? How are you planning to explain that? Misaligned connection, plugging it in backward, or just grabbing the wrong cable entirely?
You definitely used more force than I do—and I am a grown man—to the point that your uncle had to warn you about your own habits.
Do you know that I have been using the default keyboard on an ultra-thin ASUS laptop for over 8 years without a single broken key? Just to show you what a true difference in applying physical force actually looks like. Perhaps you use a mechanical keyboard, so you wouldn't understand that.
Alright then, in short, I provided 2 specific symptoms for you to double-check, and I never claimed with absolute certainty that both are the main cause of this case. Finally, I don't want to add any more of my personal judgments because the experts around here pretty much hate hearing my opinions, and I am only presenting the actual evidence straight from your own text
Apen_Koifish@reddit (OP)
Again not a lot of pressure, was told to use more because of how gentle I was. I only changed keyboards because of the fact that I want something new, never because something is broken.
Intrepid_Screen6425@reddit
To be honest, I’ve been sick of this case for a long time, and you haven’t even answered me about your battery health. If you keep this up, sooner or later people will start asking for your home address just so they can check up on things. For example: In your data, you mentioned that your uncle might be an office worker and reminded you about force/pressure. Here is a question for you—why not just ask your uncle a ton of questions instead of us? Why? Calm down, I wasn’t actually going to ask that. I’m just showing you that you’ll never find a solution with this way of questioning. Long story short, my solution is... take it to a repair shop.
readyflix@reddit
What about a clean install?
Apen_Koifish@reddit (OP)
That is something I actually don’t know anything about, what is it and how would I do it?
Elycien2@reddit
Basically wipe and reinstall everything, windows included. You can look up the specific steps but the biggest thing would be saving your data such as pics/videos/saves/work stuff.
Apen_Koifish@reddit (OP)
Would I still be able to do that if my computer doesn’t load up at all?
Elycien2@reddit
You should be able to. You will basically be starting from zero. There are plenty of youtube tutorials out there to help you. Like I said the biggest thing is to back up your data (the tutorials should mention this, if not look up backing up on wipe or reinstall).
As long as you can get past bios and have your drive read you should be fine. Look up some tutorials and you will understand more of what you need to do.
Intrepid_Screen6425@reddit
The very evidence you provided yourself without even looking back—you can already see the problem now, can't you?
1
'I had issues with it seating at first, and once I got it seated and plugged in. I had no power.'
2 'Finally after turning it off and back on I have CPU and DRAM on'
3 'Turned it off assumed maybe the cmos needed to reboot, so I took that out waiting a minute, put back in. Still nothing got boot and that was it