buggered gfx card

[wyrd]

last night i plugged my second monitor in while my computer was on and it broke my gfx card

any one know what went wrong?

(asus radeon 9600xt, second monitor via a digiatal to analog converter)

[deject]

can you get anything out of it at all or do you feel like you're looking into the empty abyss that is your soul?

[cashy]

also was it a fiery death? with smoke and kaboom?

[wyrd]

no sparks etc...

ducked under the desk to plug it in came up, wiped my mouth, and there was nowt on either screen

so i rebooted and it said, it talks to me on POST, how cool is that, "System failed due to CPU overclocking"

i know this not too be true as i've not fiddled in ages and it's at stock

another reboot and it said "vga test failed"


swapped in a beasty sis vigure PCI card and it booted fine

[ProfHawking]

i take it it is an ASUS board?

could your monitor have statically fried your gpu when you plugged it in?
sounds pretty fecked, is it under warranty?

[deject]

no sparks etc...

ducked under the desk to plug it in came up, wiped my mouth, and there was nowt on either screen

so i rebooted and it said, it talks to me on POST, how cool is that, "System failed due to CPU overclocking"

i know this not too be true as i've not fiddled in ages and it's at stock

another reboot and it said "vga test failed"


swapped in a beasty sis vigure PCI card and it booted fine

In that case, I'd say you're SOL my friend...

[wyrd]

SOL?

yeah, it's under warranty, sent them an email earlier

[deject]

SOL?

yeah, it's under warranty, sent them an email earlier

SOL == shit outta luck

[Bazzle]

No! Al, how can this have happened?!!! Not in your shiny and cool case... I'm so disillusioned right now.

[wyrd]

well, i just tried the card again, and it works...


like a fox...



what a waste of 3 weeks

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

I'm not laughing






Honest