PC SupportPC Randomly Crashes and Bizarre Lines Appear - HELP
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Okay before you read this, yes I'm very stupid and did not wear an anti-static wrist band.

I recently took everything out of my computer and removed all the dust etc. used compressed air and then reinstalled everything. I removed the graphics card, CPU heatsink/fan, exhaust fan. Now when I go ahead and start my computer my exhaust fan doesn't run, one of my graphics card fans doesn't work either.

Recently it has been crashing on me, and these bizarre lines appear on my monitor. So I had removed the side panel and put a box fan on the side to keep it cool hence my exhaust fan doesn't work anymore.

I initially thought it might be my graphics card after some research hence my exhaust fan isn't running either I thought I might've shorted my motherboard.

I would extremely appreciate anyone who is able to point me in the right direction from here because this is the computer I use for work. I have really important files on here that I've already backed up but would rather not lose my computer if any more damage occurs.

Thank you, and again I really appreciate anyone who is able to help me!
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The fans of a GPU usually are separate hardware plugged into a header on the GPU mainboard, first thing I'd recommend is to look in between your heatsink and board on your graphics card, and see if you can see the headers, and see if they're all the way plugged in.

Same goes for the exhaust fan you spoke of, make sure it's in properly, and worst comes to worse, plug it into another header on your board, and if there are no other headers, unplug another one of your fans, and plug a splitter into that header, then you can run both fans off of one cord/header and see if that fixes that problem.

As for the lines, this may be screen tearing, if you're using a Nvidia card, their newest update might have something to do with this, as I had issues with it as well, I'm actually looking up how to rollback if the current version is the only version it's ever been on, because when I installed this card it was on the most recent driver release, so I'm gonna look up an old one and see if that fixes the problem I'm having with that as well.

BUT, I wouldn't recommend playing it anyway with a bad exhaust fan, take the side panel off if anything so at least it has open air, lots of open air PC's out there that are wall mounted and such, so yea if you're exhaust fan refuses to work, and you don't have an extra header, or a splitter like mentioned above, definitely take the side panel off and run it open air until you can try the above steps.
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Literally I can't think of a time anyone has ever worn a static wristband in a PC build guide until the verge went down that dark road and wearing one became a meme.

A graphics card fan not working can be as simple as you needing to plug the cable back in. In the case for even some fans on graphics cards they're pop-ins and it could just be something got between the contacts or you reinstalled them incorrectly.

Could really use pics of this monitor going haywire... Depending on the artifacting that occurs it'd help diagnose.

What are your PC specs and age...

Did you check your GPU's contacts? The ones that plug into the motherboard? Are your cables okay, no fraying, power going through, are the cables hot (can indicate shorting), are there LEDs on the power headers to the GPU if so are they lighting up when you power the system on?

What message does your motherboard come up with on it's LCD/LED debug monitor (usually in the top right or bottom right of the motherboard in red.)

What kind of graphics card are you using, motherboard, CPU and PSU? It could very well be that you're overdrawing into your PSU and killing it. It could be an extremely outdated motherboard and installing a 2080 Ti is simply not agreeing to it. Lot of reasons.

Have you tried any other connection types? Motherboard VGA/HDMI/DP to Monitor, GPU VGA/HDMI/DP to Monitor? If so, results?

TL:DR -- PC info, pics.
Motherboard:
PSU:
Graphics Card:
CPU:
RAM:
Monitor:
Age of parts:
PSU Cables Hot: Yes/No - which ones?
Debug Monitor message:
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