The Wanderer writes:
On 2020-12-28 at 16:59, Felix Miata wrote:
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> 7-RMA the 5700. I'd be extremely hesitant to do that unless I know it's the problem. Also, although I just unboxed this within the past week, I ordered it more than a month ago; it's entirely possible they might not accept it back now.
[...] This option 7 would have been my suggestion, too :)I think it is quite likely that the new GPU ist just being incompatible to the existent system. It may be possible to explain this situation to the vendor to get a refund.
Here in Germany, many hardware parts (especially CPUs and GPUs) are available in very limited quantities only at the moment. I am not sure if that makes a difference or applies to your location at all...
Apart from that, option 3 "upgrade more hardware" seems to be the next thing to consider from my point of view. I'd advise against getting anything compatible with the old CPU and rather go with a more recent platform. (My personal approach to keep the old CPU from going to waste would be to add a HDD, PSU and chassis to keep the old motherboard and CPU alive)
> Does your PS or motherboard have any swollen or leaky electrolytics? Not that I've been able to detect. I obviously can't inspect the inside of the PSU without in-depth surgery, but I did give the capacitors etc. on the motherboard a once-over during the last swap-out, and didn't notice anything apparently out of order.
[...]I have seen multiple modes of failure in my comparatively short experience with IT hardware:
- PSU capacitor blows up, white smoke. This PSU was at least 20 years old! - PSU fails, system will not even turn on. This PSU was more than 10 years old. All inside electronics look OK (none of the capacitors blown, some dust as expected) - Motherboard caps fail (visibly bulging). System runs incredibly unstable (freezes at random moments). This motherboard was _cheap_ and 8 years old. - Server PSU (or the power switching unit?) on redundant-PSU server fails, server reboots at random time intervals due to this. Causes loud fan whine and clicking sounds in the switching unit, hard to miss. The PSU is 14 years old and the issue itself occurs only occasionally but then in short sequence. What I take from this: - In my cases, components either fail prematurely or issues occur at seemingly random intervals. - If it was a power issue at hand, I'd expect it to fail when starting something that needs 3D accelleration, at random points or upon power on (possibly high initial current draw). That it would always fail at the switch from BIOS to OS makes me believe it is not a power-related issue. My idea would be that at that point, initial power is already there (otherwise the screen would be black from the beginning) while at the same time, the GRUB screen should not increase power draw on the GPU by such large a value, that it would exceed the power draw from the previous GPU under load.One further question: When the live environments fail, where do they fail exactly? Whenever I run a live disk, it starts by printing something like "ISOLINUX Copyright... H. Peter Aanvin...", afterwards it will print/draw a menu. Does it do these things successfully and only fail to boot afterwards or is it black screen before anything from the live medium appears? (I do not have any answer in case of an immediate black screen.)
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