Post #1534659

2026-04-21 19:12 UTC

Thanks to everyone who answered and tried to help so far. Looks like the issue isn&#39;t so eas to determine and i have to go to a shop where they can change out one part after the other to determine which needs to be replaced. :neofox_melt_2: Yo Fedi, my PC got stuck all the time (no movement on the monitor anymore, no response to inputs, not even sounds) I always had to force it down via powerbutton and up again. Recently 2 times in a row. Now we reached the breaking point it seems. Out of nowhere, when i wasn&#39;t looking/moving the mouse for a moment, it got stuck again. I forced him down and up a couple times, even turned him off completely via the on off switch for two minutes. No signal. I switched cable, monitor, even tried the second hdmi output. No picture. He goes up and down fine, but i get no visual signal All sounds like i need a new graphic card, right? I&#39;m a noob when it comes to everything technical. #fediask

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@Mycroft@meow.social 2026-04-21 19:24

@Korawolfsrain could be any number of things, from expensive components or just something that needs reseated no advice except have someone who knows what they're doing and has spare parts take a look Troubleshooting steps start with taking it apart, cleaning it, and putting it back together again. Dry thermal paste could indicate an overheating issue. If it still doesn't work, they swap out parts until it works again. If they're lucky they can point to one part that when it's in it doesn't work, when it's replaced it works, back in it doesn't work. Proof. My familiarity with the particulars is out of date, but that's the basics. My intuition might start with power supply to try first.

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@treejo@plasmatrap.com 2026-04-21 19:42

@Korawolfsrain@meow.social hiya, it's hard to say which component is faulty from what you wrote assuming your PC is a tower and you're willing to open it up: if you think it's the graphics card then you might want to take it out of your pc and see if anything changes in your PC's startup behavior i recommend you try and check your power supply, in my little experience they can cause weird problems and are relatively cheap compared to other components in general the strategy to locate problems would be disconnecting unnecessary cards and drives, checking connections and replacing stuff that can be tedious though

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@Aprazeth@mstdn.social 2026-04-21 20:10

@Korawolfsrain When this happens, and you press the CAPS LOCK on your keyboard, does that little light turn on? If not, the system has completely frozen and it could be a lot of things. If they do come on, the system is still working but the videocard has failed. In that event check that the powercables to the videocard are still properly plugged in. Also, can you (safely) take the side panel of the PC and see if the issue still happens? So before turning the PC on remove the panel

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@DeltaWye@tiggi.es 2026-04-21 22:55

@Korawolfsrain Yo Kora are you in Deutschland? I know a couple of people in the far western area like I think Stuttgart who may possibly be able to help.

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@sudaksis@furry.engineer 2026-04-21 23:22

@Korawolfsrain If you are on PC, you can check the crash logs in the Event Viewer. (I'm no expert with Linux distros if using such, but there should be a similar crash log or event log on there) It could be a number of things, so best to check what the error reports as. A majority of the hardware related issues I see are memory related, so my first step would be to power off completely and remove the DIMM(s), then reinsert them and try again. Just a basic first thing before full memory troubleshooting. If your PC has a CPU with integrated graphic support, you could try to run it without the GPU installed to see if it is a GPU issue.

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