Blank screen!

[Philip_ashby]

Fan on my x1900xtx card was dying... so I bought a new fan... installed ok.

Thing is I now get a blank screen when rebooting! Fan spins.. no beeps no nothing...

I thought Oh crap I've broken the card...

so I go and buy a 3870 x2 (was on the cards!). The problem is I get a blank screen with this too!!

Installed old X800XL and this works fine...arg!

So have I

1. fried the motherboard (new bios on Asus P5B Deluxe)

2. fried the 6pin lanes on my Antec 650 truepower

3. something else I can't get my head around?

 

[skunksta]

So does the pc boot into windows and its just no video or it wont boot with the x2 or 1900 .. ?

 

[kevpuk]

Definitely try re-seating once or twice.....and check for mobo/BIOS compatibility with the X2.....

Had a similar issue a while back when my 8800GTX just stopped working - fans span up and not much else.....tried different cards/mobo/RAM and so on, eventually got different card to work.....RMAd the GTX.....new one came back and worked just fine.....but various gfx cards worked one day and not the next in the mobo.....that said, the new GTX worked always - go figure ?!

I know that doesn't help much, but you are not alone

 

[Philip_ashby]

no boot up no nothing...

Have a horrible feeling I have done something really stoopid...will get back when I try something.

Thanks for help!

 

[Philip_ashby]

OK so I am stoopid...

Didnt connect the 2nd 6 pin into the 8 pin... oops

Which means my X1900XTX is indead toast

Arg! Stoopid crappy manual...