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Hey guys,
I apologize ahead of time if this is in the wrong forum section. I currently run a setup with a basic Nvidia EVGA 780 as my gpu. Tonight while playing Battlefront, the game began to stutter MASSIVELY during a game. Shortly after the stuttering began, I smelled a horrible acrid burning smell and immediately after that, the monitor went black, displayed the typical "no DVI signal detected", and remained black (this all occurred within a few seconds). I immediately cut power and took my side panel off. Nothing appeared out of place and nothing was on fire or anything crazy. I let things cool off for a while, re-attached my side panel, and powered up. Everything started as normal, all the lights came on as they usually do, I didn't get any error tones, but the monitor remained black the entire time as if no signal from the GPU was being received. I tried both output ports on the card but neither would work.
It seems to me like my card crapped out for some reason. I have no idea what the reason is or why that burning smell would occur but I'm writing this just to get some second opinions from people.
UPDATE: It's late and I'm tired so I'm not doing a lot of troubleshooting until the morning but I just went and sniffed my card (I currently have it disconnected from the system with the power off). It smells strongly of the same distinct odor I smelled during the initial problem. It's odd....I've never had any problems with this thing before. I'm not a "pro" builder so I'm not really sure what the cause of an issue like this is...is it an overheat or a power surge? I'm slightly confused and would appreciate some input from more experienced builders. I will be conducting more thorough troubleshooting in the daylight hours.
I apologize ahead of time if this is in the wrong forum section. I currently run a setup with a basic Nvidia EVGA 780 as my gpu. Tonight while playing Battlefront, the game began to stutter MASSIVELY during a game. Shortly after the stuttering began, I smelled a horrible acrid burning smell and immediately after that, the monitor went black, displayed the typical "no DVI signal detected", and remained black (this all occurred within a few seconds). I immediately cut power and took my side panel off. Nothing appeared out of place and nothing was on fire or anything crazy. I let things cool off for a while, re-attached my side panel, and powered up. Everything started as normal, all the lights came on as they usually do, I didn't get any error tones, but the monitor remained black the entire time as if no signal from the GPU was being received. I tried both output ports on the card but neither would work.
It seems to me like my card crapped out for some reason. I have no idea what the reason is or why that burning smell would occur but I'm writing this just to get some second opinions from people.
UPDATE: It's late and I'm tired so I'm not doing a lot of troubleshooting until the morning but I just went and sniffed my card (I currently have it disconnected from the system with the power off). It smells strongly of the same distinct odor I smelled during the initial problem. It's odd....I've never had any problems with this thing before. I'm not a "pro" builder so I'm not really sure what the cause of an issue like this is...is it an overheat or a power surge? I'm slightly confused and would appreciate some input from more experienced builders. I will be conducting more thorough troubleshooting in the daylight hours.
