Problem with the mainboard
Problem with the mainboard
I bought a new motherboard, power supply, RAM, and CPU from Micro Center. The board is an Asus Z790 with wireless DDR5, the RAM is G Skill DDR5-6000, and the CPU is an I-9 12900K. The PSU is a 750W gold plus. I used my old 3060TI. At first everything worked well—rendering 4K videos and games running smoothly. Then the computer would shut down, requiring me to remove the CMOS battery. On Christmas Eve I took it to Micro Center for inspection on the 26th. They said the RAM might be faulty and promised a response in a couple of days. They called back on the 30th, saying they couldn’t replicate the issue and asked me to come in. Today I was playing games and the machine would turn off again. After checking the driver, I ran DDU and installed a new one—everything worked until about 10 games into the week. Then all screens disappeared again. I couldn’t boot the PC with either GPU in the PCIe slot. I’m trying to figure out if the motherboard is faulty and want some tests to confirm. I managed to get it to boot with integrated graphics as long as neither card was connected. TL;DR: the computer won’t power on with two GPUs in the first PCI slot. Could it be a bad motherboard?
It works once more after a few restarts and then after a few minutes of waiting.