POST beep, no video?

Gundog48 · 15 Aug 2012 at 13:11

I built a PC for a friend of mine, I've had to replace the graphics card once in it as it finally died (he specified it was for no gaming apart from minecraft, I threw in an old 9800GTX, he started playing BF3 and new releases on it for a year!). Anyway, he's now informed me that he is no longer getting a video output. No monitors recognise it on any connector, but he is getting a normal POST beep. Any ideas before I ride over there and take a look?

ExRayTed · 15 Aug 2012 at 17:09

Assuming all connections are fine it'll be a dead card. If he takes out the card and tries to start it up then he'll get a BIOS error code.

Gundog48 · 15 Aug 2012 at 17:09

So no error code unless the card is physically missing? Any idea how that could happen? He turned it off the previous night, and in the morning it was like this.

ExRayTed · 15 Aug 2012 at 17:10

Yup, just replaced my son's card that did just this

ExRayTed · 15 Aug 2012 at 17:13

You could try re-seating the card but to be honest I can't see it being anything other than a dead card.

Justintime · 15 Aug 2012 at 17:14

Gundog48 said:
So no error code unless the card is physically missing? .

Not necessarily, dead card can give a 'no output' beep as well, just not always, really depends on the state of 'deadness'

Since this is the second card that died, what psu is he using and what motherboard? Perhaps the issue lies there as two gpus going while not unlikely, is a bit suspect.

Gundog48 · 15 Aug 2012 at 19:13

The first one was about 8 years old which I gave to him, with him being the 4th owner! That 9800GTX was a soldier, but all the BF3 eventually killed it! I review PSUs so I never use bad ones, this was a nice Cougar PSU that I'd already tested, so no worries there! The motherboard was an Asus P67 board, can't remember exactly.

CyberCrow · 15 Aug 2012 at 19:17

Was it a (B3) board? or the earlier revision

Justintime · 15 Aug 2012 at 19:29

CyberCrow said:
Was it a (B3) board? or the earlier revision

Wouldn't that affect the SATA 2 only? Not heard of it causing death to cards.

Not used much HEC psus but the few i did use were good builds so i guess that should be fine, card might just have had it!

Gundog48 · 15 Aug 2012 at 19:33

Oh well, got his receipt right here, putting in an RMA request. Yeah, it was B3, but as Justin said, wouldn't make a whole lot of difference. I'd never heard of Cougar before, but after testing I was extremely impressed!

Justintime · 15 Aug 2012 at 19:36

Gundog48 said:
Oh well, got his receipt right here, putting in an RMA request. Yeah, it was B3, but as Justin said, wouldn't make a whole lot of difference. I'd never heard of Cougar before, but after testing I was extremely impressed!

They're basically made by compucase/HEC, big OEM. Their Cougar psus are usually ok, some of their 'comes with case' psus can be shockingly bad.