Is my pc screwed? When I sit at my desk and power it on, I expect it to come on, but I see lights on the mobo and graphics card light up but nothing appears on the monitor. I recently took this Cybertron garbage box to Fry's and, long story short, the monitor is fine and it was booting up, just not displaying anything. So I replaced the graphics card with a GTX 1050 TI. It seemed ok for a while, but now it is back to doing the same thing. This time, as I am typing now using my phone, I have abused the power button to turn it off and on about 10 times, and still nothing appears on the monitor, which isn't getting any signal.

1: A public service message: Do not buy Cybertron. They use cheap parts and as a result their pc products are shit.
2: How would you approach this (hopefully short of replacing the whole thing)?

Any input is appreciated.

Edit: I got it to come up at last and here are my dxdiag screens, if they help.

Did you try another cable to connect your monitor to see if it does the same thing?

PSU or Mother issue from what it looks like.

Try replacing the psu and test it and it it's not that then it's the motherboard for sure.


Those parts can be cheap if you get what you know need and not go overkill on it.

get a cheap psu from corsair or coolermaster and give that a shot first. I know they have some that range even in the 40 or 30 dollar range.

And did you try to connect another monitor to your desktop?

sounds to me like the PCI/PCI express slot you have the card installed in is "burning" the cards out as it's electronics anything is possible. do you have enough knowledge to open the box and see if you have multiple PCI slots? it's probably too late for the GPU.

How old is the system? you could see what Cybetron's replacement policy is, tell them you want the HD intact.

if it's out of date you might want to concider replacing the mother board, with a similar style, so you can swap the CPU and other items over again I'd say the GPU is beyond help, how old is it? get a replacement for it?

I got the whole thing last April, so it's less than a year old. The graphics card was bought in December. When I got the GTX 1050 TI I asked the Fry's tech if he thought the PSU could handle it, and he said yes. I hope he knew his stuff and wasn't bsing.
The monitor displays fine when connected to a different pc.
Wish I could boot up long enough to grab a screen of my dxdiag list with all the parts.
I will try opening the case and moving the graphics card to a different slot. That's a good easy thing to try.

If it came with a warranty, I'd go that route first.

A lot of times, things like to cascade fail. So if your MOBO is bad, it could damage a graphics card. If the PSU is bad, it could damage the MOBO which in turn damages the graphics card.

I'd personally see what you can do with what you have, but I wouldn't put much money into it. Before you know it, you'll have put enough money into it to have bought a new PC - especially if you aren't terribly hardware-savvy. A new computer shouldn't give you crap like that, so I'd put pressure on the manufacturer to fix it and if that fails, leave the bad review, save up for a good PC, and buy something with quality parts.

What brand and model is the PSU?

Thanks but I am afraid Cybertron will tell me what to go do with myself because I replaced the graphics card that it came with when I got the GTX 1050 TI. I'll try though.

ariaspi, I had it open a while ago but I don't recall the brand of the PSU. When I open it again I can look. How does that matter?

Thanks to everyone.

There are a lot of bad power supplies out there. I think there are like five factories that manufacture them and three make rubbish.

If you bought this in April, it's definitely under warranty. You kept the old gpu, right?????

As Themken said, there are only a few PSU manufacturers left. The only ones you can trust without reading some reviews first, are Seasonic and Super Flower.

Basically all the popular brands like Corsair, Cooler Master, EVGA, NZXT, Thermaltake have their top models made by Seasonic or Super Flower, and the cheaper models made by let's say lower quality manufacturers, like FSP (Fortron), Sirtech, HEC, CWT (Channel Well Tech), Andyson. These too can have good models, but only the expensive ones, usually above $100.

There are a few other manufacturers, I think Delta Electronics and Enhance Electronics were good too, Flextronics maybe, but I don't know if they are in the business anymore.

Anyone interested in more should check these links: PSU Tier List, PSU Review Database, JonnyGURU - very good reviews here.

replacing a modular component doesn't void the warenty unless there is blatent proof it's user caused damage like broken pins etc.