The PCIe port failed, but another connection might still work.
The PCIe port failed, but another connection might still work.
Hello everyone! I’d like to share a bit about my experience. My system is quite old—bought in 2014 with an LGA1150 socket. It’s not designed for heavy gaming or demanding software, so it worked fine for my needs. About two days ago, while playing a game, the computer kept restarting multiple times. After the first restart, it showed a warning about power surges and automatically shut down several times during play. The smell was odd, and the graphics card stopped working completely. I could still run basic tasks with integrated graphics, but connecting a new video card didn’t help. When I installed drivers, I encountered a BSOD every time, and even after trying advanced settings like DDU safe mode, it kept failing. The next day I swapped in a used GPU, which resolved the issue completely—no more crashes or BSODs. Now I’m wondering if moving the card to a different PCIe slot would fix things, especially since the original 3.0 slot seems compromised. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Should be fine. Though you likely want to either replace your PSU, or get your hands on an UPS, as either your wall power is so bad the PSU cannot do its job correctly, or the PSU is on its way out. All this: Sounds like horrid wall power or a dying PSU. Computers don't fry their own components unless something is majorly wrong, and the motherboard giving you a power surge warning points to it being power delivery.