5punk

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)

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?

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

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

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?

wyrd wrote: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...

SOL?

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

wyrd wrote:SOL?

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

SOL == shit outta luck

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

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


like a fox...



what a waste of 3 weeks

I'm not laughing






Honest