Hello,

could be a faulty gpu... is the fan on the fx3800 working ?

Hi

Thank you for assistance

I thought that to be honest - the fan is turning but i'm thinking perhaps they connected the wrong cable to the GPU. Trying to figure out the PSU to expansion card cable assignment. I don't want to mess with it as it just arrived yesterday and i might have to send it back. Real pain  - im sure somethings overheating.

Once it crashes you cant turn it on for a few minutes, until you hear the same noise it makes when you connect the power cable for the first time. Possibly a safety feature letting it cool off ??

Do you know what the solid amber light on the board means ? Is that just an indicator of power to the system?

Any help appreciated

kind regards

 

James

Sadly no, no idea about that solid amber led. The ones usually indicating powers that i'm accustomed to see are green, so I'm not sure.

That clicking sound is normal on some psu on power-on, but this whole situation is not so good. I had a Fx3800 in a by now old workstation ( technically i should say i have, since i've kept the box as spare for emergencies ), and has never overheated. Plus the fan and temp would be on the low side unless launching something really stressing the card.

At this point, personal opinion... either the gpu has a slight issue, or is getting too much power from the psu ( and that by itself would be an issue, because would mean the psu is not working as specs ). I assume you don't have any gpu to test ?

You could also test the psu
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000125179/how-to-run-a-power-supply-unit-self-test-on-a-dell-desktop-or-all-in-one-computer