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My mum was writing an e-mail on her computer tonight and the screen suddenly went blank. I went and had a look at it but the screen was still on, just in standby mode. I finished what I was doing and had a proper look after it'd been off for a while to make sure it wasn't overheating. Lo and behold, the motherboard beeps when I turn it on so I look up what those mean.
Long-short-short = No monitor attached or GPU
With a slight downfeeling, I swapped the card for another one I know works and turn the PC back on. It works so I put the old card into the machine I took the new card out of and that doesn't work either.
I'm assuming at this point that the GFX card is dead? I didn't think they just "die". I would have thought that there would at least be some indication that it was on it's way out but no, nothing.
I've looked at the card and I can't see anything wrong like a popped capicator or slightly risen heatsink. For reference, it's an old AGP ATi X700 Pro HIS IceQ 128MB and I've never once had a problem with it.
Long-short-short = No monitor attached or GPU
With a slight downfeeling, I swapped the card for another one I know works and turn the PC back on. It works so I put the old card into the machine I took the new card out of and that doesn't work either.
I'm assuming at this point that the GFX card is dead? I didn't think they just "die". I would have thought that there would at least be some indication that it was on it's way out but no, nothing.
I've looked at the card and I can't see anything wrong like a popped capicator or slightly risen heatsink. For reference, it's an old AGP ATi X700 Pro HIS IceQ 128MB and I've never once had a problem with it.
