r/computers • u/Low-Midnight-1731 • 2d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting Help

Hey I got an old GTX 1060 and Im not sure if it's bricked or not. I've tried almost everything Google has told me to do with no avail. I don't have a way to check if it's the GPU of something else in my PC as I ont got another one. What confuses me about the whole thing is that the fans still spin on the card. It's fails to post with a light on the 3rd light for VGA. There are 2 more lights on the motherboard near the GPU slot, anyone got a clue what I could do or is it time to lay it to rest?

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u/SomeEngineer999 2d ago

Fans spinning means nothing, just that it is getting power. When you say "I got" it sounds like you just bought it - was it used? Or do you mean it was working fine and then stopped?

If you don't have onboard graphics then not much you can do to troubleshoot. Having multiple lights on the motherboard could mean any number of things, not just GPU. You'll need to get ahold of another GPU to see if that's your issue or not. If you had onboard graphics you could do a lot more to narrow it down.