PC Turns off once a graphics card is installed
So I'm asking this on behalf of someone who is a novice with computers.
So she bought a used system on eBay for suspiciously cheap. £250 for a AM5 based system. It's a Cyberpower system that has a a620 motherboard (trying to get the exact model). 8500G APU, 16GB single stick 5600mhz DDR5 RAM and 512GB SSD. Inwin 750w PSU.
So with the PSU as it is. Just the APU installed it works fine. Can use it for hours and do light gaming no problems.
She then bought a brand new MSI MAG 850w Gold PSU. Once again system works fine. She then got a RTX 3060 ti used on eBay and once the GPU was installed the pc would power up for 2-3 mins and then shut down. Just completely off no blue screens or anything. So she assumed it was the GPU. So returned it and bought a brand new RTX 5060 ti 8GB from Amazon it arrived today and once again after 2 mins then pc shuts down. So she reinstalled the inwin PSU and again 2 mins after power on system shuts down. Only happens with a GPU installed.
What could this be? Surely it can't be 2 dodgy power supplies right?
Posted Jun 13, 2026, 5:29 PM UTC