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Old PC No Longer Outputting Video (Or...working at all really)
Fiatil
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So this one is a bit of a shot in the dark, but hey maybe someone here can help.
I have an old PC that I built in 2011 for Skyrim that I've been using off and on as a server for videogames for the past 5 years. It sits in the corner and I only need to access it to launch servers and stuff, so I've been using chrome remote desktop to run it without a monitor. I turned it off earlier this month since my friends and I weren't using it, and tried to boot it up today to resume server shenanigans.
Sadly, remote desktop did not detect it this time. It boots straight into Windows, so typically I can just power it on, desktop detects it, and I'm off to the races. So I lugged my monitor over to see what was going on, buuuut it's no longer outputting any video whatsoever. Everything appears powered on -- the GPU and CPU fans are spinning, and it sounds and looks like business as usual. But I can't see anything that's going on -- I tried the HDMI port I normally use with no output, and broke out a displayport cable to test the other one, still no luck. The motherboard doesn't have any other display outputs sadly -- it's the GPU or nothing.
So I'm torn as to what has failed here. Maybe the GPU, though my guess is that Chrome Remote desktop would have still been able to detect it and let me access it through my functional PC if it's just the GPU. I can't say I'm sure, but it seems like it wouldn't care about the output ports failing -- maybe the entire GPU failing would make it mad though. Is it typical for a GPU to fail but the fans still work? I haven't really run into it much in my adventures of PC troubleshooting over the years.
Does anyone have a more educated guess than me based on what I've described? The PC was definitely hit with some weird viruses 5 years ago, but it's been pretty solid since. I can't even get into the bootup screen to see BIOS or anything, so my options are pretty wide open.
I have an old PC that I built in 2011 for Skyrim that I've been using off and on as a server for videogames for the past 5 years. It sits in the corner and I only need to access it to launch servers and stuff, so I've been using chrome remote desktop to run it without a monitor. I turned it off earlier this month since my friends and I weren't using it, and tried to boot it up today to resume server shenanigans.
Sadly, remote desktop did not detect it this time. It boots straight into Windows, so typically I can just power it on, desktop detects it, and I'm off to the races. So I lugged my monitor over to see what was going on, buuuut it's no longer outputting any video whatsoever. Everything appears powered on -- the GPU and CPU fans are spinning, and it sounds and looks like business as usual. But I can't see anything that's going on -- I tried the HDMI port I normally use with no output, and broke out a displayport cable to test the other one, still no luck. The motherboard doesn't have any other display outputs sadly -- it's the GPU or nothing.
So I'm torn as to what has failed here. Maybe the GPU, though my guess is that Chrome Remote desktop would have still been able to detect it and let me access it through my functional PC if it's just the GPU. I can't say I'm sure, but it seems like it wouldn't care about the output ports failing -- maybe the entire GPU failing would make it mad though. Is it typical for a GPU to fail but the fans still work? I haven't really run into it much in my adventures of PC troubleshooting over the years.
Does anyone have a more educated guess than me based on what I've described? The PC was definitely hit with some weird viruses 5 years ago, but it's been pretty solid since. I can't even get into the bootup screen to see BIOS or anything, so my options are pretty wide open.
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Thanks for the advice! It turns out it was one of the RAM. I removed the older set and it booted up, so hooray! That's the least painful way for it to have "died", so thanks again for your help.