Is my 8800gts dead?

[JonD]

Was browsing the net today with music playing. All of a sudden my pc crashed, the screen when black, and my music was looping. The usual crash stuff...

Now when I turn on my pc. I can hear a fan blowing quite loud and I cant hear my motherboard beep like it usually does when I boot it. Nothing appears to happen. So I restart again, but I left it on a bit longer and I heard the windows logon sound followed by the msn log on sound. Seems like my pc is fine but nothing is appearing on my monitor.



I take the side off my PC and it seems like the graphics card is making the loud fan sound, but I don't have a spare card to test. Not good!

This does seem like its my graphics card thats broken. But could it be my power supply or motherboard?

Why would the fan be really loud if it is broke?

Why wouldn't my motherboard beep like it usually does?


I've never had any hardware fail on me yet, so any help would be great.

Thanks

 

[rolypolyman]

Check your connections to the graphics card first, ie dvi and the power connector and monitor connections, however cant imagine either the monitor or graphics card causing your music to loop.

 

[JonD]

I've tried re-sitting it and tried a different monitor. Same thing.

The music loop was just the dudududududududu... U always get when a pc crashes