Here is the Motherboard layout to let you know which is the PCIe x16 slot: ( I have attached the Gigabyte Motherboard Manual to this post. Note: see what card is being used in the PCIe x16 slot since this is the slot you will need to install a new AMD GPU Card.Īt the same time you open the Computer case, take a look at the PSU label or Model number to determine what Wattage it is. You going to need to open to verify if PCIe x16 is indeed occupied. 3.1) | Motherboard - GIGABYTE GlobalĪccording to SPECCY, both PCIe x 16 and x1 seems to have a card installed or are being used. This is for version 3.1 according to your BIOS version of FC: GA-F2A78M-HD2 (rev. The other two are PCIe x1 and regular PCI slots. It is a small Motherboard with only one PCIe x16 slot. Now the system is back to the same problems with the display shutting out entirely, it also seems that the voltage drops may have gotten bad enough that the system is off entirely(cant say for certain).This is Gigabytes Support for your Motherboard installed on your computer. I figured the PSU was the problem and swapped out my original 750W Coolmaster with my new Corsair and the system ran flawlessly.for a few weeks. Low and behold both diagnostics showed my voltages dropping out. I suspected I might either be having some issues with either the graphics card or the PSU so I installed Speccy and HW monitor to check my voltages. It gradually got worse to the point that even upon startup the system would keep a black screen despite the computer booting up. Now to get to the problem a few months ago I started having problems with my graphics crashing out, at first the screen would go black for a few seconds and come back saying the nvidia display driver had stopped responding. Intel COre i5-2400 CPU p8z68-v/gen3 mother board Nvidia GTX 560 Ti with latest driver 327.23Ĩ GB DDR3 RAM Patriot Memory 1600Mhz (2x 4GB originally, just removed one stick that I saw wasn't fully seated) Hello all, thanks in advance for the help!įor starters here are my system specs.

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