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Hi so when starting my PC up I have a solid red light at the GPU. And then when in the desktop making mouse movements and opening programs leads to random GPU spikes as well as audio stutters and mouse stutters. Whenever loading GPU intensive tasks such as games the PC will crash and restart and via latencyMon I am also getting very high latency.  I have tried a full PC reset, uninstalling drivers with DDU, BIOS update...
 

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There is no way for the GPU to detect that the power supply is inadequate at startup, there is no communication between them. The way they monitor this is to test that both cables are plugged into the sockets provided when we used to have 2 sockets on GPU instead of the new connector. This could indicate a cable has not seated correctly or shaken out of contact during flight. You may not believe it but I have seen first hand parts unplug after a long flight.

However at this point I am guessing you have tried to reseat the cables for GPU. One thing that could be happening in a power supply is that 2 sockets are bonded together and then another 2 sockets are bonded together on a separate circuit, its far fetched but you could try moving the one of the gpu cables across to a spare gpu socket.

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Hey, I have tried that and still getting the red light. The red light does go off when powering the system on though so I am not sure the light just indicates it is getting power? Should I try and use something like OCCT and HWMonitor to check the power delivery?

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Also looks like none of my DisplayPorts and HDMI ports are working, the PC will now also just shut off after a minute or two 
Also forgot to mention that earlier when I used the Memory Diagnostic Tool it did detect memory issues as well

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The thing that can catch us out is the riser cable. I have had this issue with the BBC running a 4060, At first everything was ok and then it started to glitch out. Main issue with riser cables is that they allow interference on high speed data transfer witch then causes crashes and nasty lag, The way we validated this was to put the GPU in a separate computer, everything worked, then added the riser card and boom.

The Riser card should be 4.0 standard, I have checked Azzar site but it doesn't spec either. I have had PC's run on 3.0 standard before but it may have been under favorable conditions. I can't really see the large screen diagnostics you posted.

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Would the riser cable lead to the lower power consumption for the GPU though? These should be easier to see, this is shortly after booting the system.

Based off of these is there any indication that maybe the PSU got damaged somehow and now isn't delivering the power it should? Or is it more likely a GPU failure?

 

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Hey so I went to Bios and changed the Pcie slot speed to gen 3 from auto and this seems to have fixed the issue! I am guessing the riser cable is a gen 3 then, and if so would it be worthwhile to go to a gen 4 or not really? Either way thanks for the assistance, I really appreciate it! 🙂

 

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No worries, Do you want to run a gpu benchmark, I can authenticate my steam account if you send me the QR code. we just need to coordinate at time. In most cases pci3 is sufficient. this one being TI overclocked could be a bottleneck. Im in sydney time and 8am till 12pm.

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