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Post subject: GFX card fails :(  Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:13 pm |
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So i came in last nite to find my monitors off, as in standby mode, so i thought that the PC was in power save mode, so i movied the mouse, tapped the keyboard, nothing, hmm, somethings wrong i thought, so i checked the cable was in both monitors(i have 2) and still nothing, so i turned my PC off and back on again and nothing, no display on either monitor, this isnt good i thought, there are no motherboard beeps to indicate a faulty device and the GFX card fan is working fine, i thought maybe my PSU wasnt supplying enought power, so i hooked up a CD ROM, HDD and my GFX card, thats it, and still no display, so i thought maybe faulty RAM, tried switching RAM and still same result, so tell me, is it likely that a GFX card bought in september would just stop working?
PC setup
Core 2 Duo E6600
7950GT 512MB
4 GB corsiar 667 RAM
ASUS p5n32 sli deluxe
Creative XFI fatlity sound card
3 Maxtor HDD
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:22 pm |
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Quote: i thought maybe my PSU wasnt supplying enought power, so i hooked up a CD ROM, HDD and my GFX card, thats it, and still no display
eh? surely thats the wrong way round  
bios reset? allways worth a try.....
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:38 pm |
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I'mma guess you haven't done anything to it before the problem occured? And have you tried the GFX Card in another comp and have you tried teh monitors in a different comp? Otherwise, like 3ilbo said, probs a BIOS issue, or worse, motherboard I'd guess.. o.o
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:49 am |
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tried the above, not tried the bios reset, how????
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:41 am |
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RTFM
Either there's a jumper you need to swap, or take the battery out - It should say in the manual
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:43 am |
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Post subject: monitor Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:33 am |
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if there are no beeps u sure ur monitor aint dead / cable out of card to mointor is secure ?
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:34 am |
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i have 2 montiors, and the PC im using right now is using one of the monitors from my game PC
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:22 am |
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If you can, try the card in another compsky.
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:24 am |
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Doesn't ur motherboard beep once? Mine does during normal ops.
Is the fan on the G Card spinning??
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:05 pm |
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Aye, Bios should reportage of faultage. Pluggage GFX cardage into another compatage, and see what happenage.
How old is it, incase, and is it still in warranty?
Is it me, or do computer parts seem to die a lot quicker than of old? Kinda reminds me of vehicles between C-J register - which would rust to pieces within 5 years... built to fail.
Don't trust things these days, parts seem to fail too quickly. We have a 10 year old PC that still works - no component failure yet. New ones though - lol.
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:12 pm |
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Not like you'll be able to Crysis on a Pentium 2 200mhz with 8MB of RAM and a 2MB GFX card though is it?
Try the GFX card in another comp as mentioned before, But you can confirm that windows has started up and is operational, even if you cant actually see it (i.e makes sounds etc).
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:05 pm |
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tried the GFX card in another PC, so im gona say the mobo has failed
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 1:23 pm |
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Before you do that... have you got a higher resolution monitor?
Someone or you... might have set the resolution much higher than your monitor supports. Try using a higher res monitor if you got one and see if that fixes it. When you have it connected, just turn the resolution down and refresh rate (if that is the problem)
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:07 pm |
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the bios screen isnt dependant on a res though
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