2 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Signal to monitor lost and case fans running to maximum even when the system is not under stress.

The thing that has me scratching my head are the case fans, do you know how they are controlled? I’m assuming that it is not the AIO fans, correct?

1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Chillblast have just replied and suggested this which I’ll try should the supplied bracket prove tricky to install.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ALLY-MAGIC-Graphics-Support-Bracket-Supports/dp/B09QKYYLKT?th=1

Hello Ray, that's the one in my earlier link, you can also see it at work in my image.
Good to see that Chillblast and I are on the same page. 😁

Edited October 3, 20232 yr by Reader

14 minutes ago, SierraDelta said:

The thing that has me scratching my head are the case fans, do you know how they are controlled? I’m assuming that it is not the AIO fans, correct?

I don’t sadly as I haven’t had enough time to study the BIOS and there’s no BIOS guidance in the manual. When my Dell laptop requires a BIOS update the fans speed up to max. It’s possible there’s a setting in the BIOS to trigger that in my new one when something unexpected happens.

12 minutes ago, Reader said:

Hello Ray, that's the exact one in my earlier link, you can also see it at work in my image.
Good to see that Chillblast and I are on the same page. 😁

I browsed through those available and picked this one as it has a magnet in the base. The earlier one mentioned some type of glue which is off putting. That removes the issue of another slot being taken up.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09FPJL1KY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Does the CPU have integrated graphics? If so I'd try taking the GPU out and seeing if the problem comes back.

Cheers

8 minutes ago, Luke said:

Does the CPU have integrated graphics? If so I'd try taking the GPU out and seeing if the problem comes back.

Thinking outside the box! 👏 I’m not sure of that. Intel i9-13900K.

Just checked and it does but no cooling is available. With a new card enroute I’m happy to wait.

31 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Thinking outside the box! 👏 I’m not sure of that. Intel i9-13900K.

Just checked and it does but no cooling is available. With a new card enroute I’m happy to wait.

Ray,

What do you mean by "no cooling is available?" If you remove the GPU and plug your monitor into the MB monitor port the only cooling needed is for the CPU - which you clearly have. It's possible that port is disabled in BIOS, but I doubt it, so it should drive your monitor just fine and will tell you unequivocally whether the problem is related to the video card.

2 minutes ago, somiller said:

Ray,

What do you mean by "no cooling is available?" If you remove the GPU and plug your monitor into the MB monitor port the only cooling needed is for the CPU - which you clearly have. It's possible that port is disabled in BIOS, but I doubt it, so it should drive your monitor just fine and will tell you unequivocally whether the problem is related to the video card.

I'm just quoting what the website I found said. I agree the CPU does the cooling. I'll give it some thought. Doing other things at present.

17 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I'm just quoting what the website I found said. I agree the CPU does the cooling. I'll give it some thought. Doing other things at present.

I tend to agree with you Ray, probably best to just wait till the technician arrives and let them deal with it - you certainly don't want to do anything that might void the warranty!!

32 minutes ago, somiller said:

I tend to agree with you Ray, probably best to just wait till the technician arrives and let them deal with it - you certainly don't want to do anything that might void the warranty!!

There won't be a technician. That could take days. I used to build my own so am familiar with the process.

This hopefully doesn't sound mad. The HDMI plug from the monitor won't fit into the HDMI socket on the mobo. If you look at the 3 pics you can see that on another graphics card there is a cutout top left. That matches the notch top right on the plug.

But on the mobo HDMI port the shape is different so try as I might it just won't go in. I suspect it's a DisplayPort plug which perhaps the sockets on a graphics card can use but not the mobo HDMI port which must have a HDMI cable. For the day or two it's going to take to get here I can wait for the new GPU. Appreciate the suggestion though.

As I suspected it's a DP plug - hence why it won't fit into the HDMI port. I'm guessing the sockets on graphics cards can use both.

The one in your hand with the corner cut off is a display port cable.
The picture of the motherboard is an HDMI socket.
In the last picture, of a graphics card, the one on the left is an HDMI socket and on the right, a Display port.
I would imagine that you will have an HDMI cable somewhere, most decent monitors come with both
and that your monitor will also have an HDMI socket.

 

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27 minutes ago, Reader said:

I would imagine that you will have both an HDMI cable somewhere, most decent monitors come with both
and that your monitor will also have an HDMI socket.

I have found an HDMI cable and I now have the computer running. No flying of course but it crashed with general computer work so the next few hours should confirm one way or another if it was a dodgy GPU.

I used the computer for just over 1 hour without issue. 👍

Just heard from Chillblast that my replacement card is out for delivery tomorrow. Card support arriving Friday.

Good to hear Ray, so it sounds like a quick swap of the card and away you go - good job!!

Let us know what you think after you get it running, and if you don't mind include the specs of your previous P3D computer to provide a frame of reference to your performance comments.

@somiller, will do Steven. My previous machine was an i7-8086K running at 4.9 with a 1080Ti and 32Gb DDR4 RAM.

I have a 4K 30Hz monitor so with VSync enabled fps remained at 30 bar heavy airports where even killing a lot of Ai it still couldn’t achieve that target.

The card will probably arrive Thursday but the support pole on Friday so I’ll keep the case on its side on the floor to prevent any stress to the slot until I can attach the pole.