Display Failure

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dl8860

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Display randomly locked up the other day on my PC so had to do a hard shut down.

Next day when I rebooted, the GPU fan was making a weird panting sound, sort of like 1 second on, one second off. Really odd, and no display on my monitor either. It's a second hand xfx 6950, been flawless for the 9 or so months I've had it and shows no visible signs of damage or anything.

Anyway the odd noises from GPU and lack of display obvious led me to initially believe it was the issue, so I removed the GPU, removed CMOS for 2 mins then plugged hdmi cable into my mobo to check that the rest of the PC is fine without the GPU. Except I can't get any display out of that either.

So 2 options, first one being I somehow need to switch between GPU and on-board graphics (mobo is asus m4a78lt-m which does have integrated GPU), without any display. Google doesn't seem to have any answers for this.

Second option is that another of my components is also at fault, which seems unlikely as my GPU has never made this noise before so would be a pretty big coincidence.

So before I go through switching and testing everything else (not that simple, don't have lots of other cables/monitors/components to hand), does anyone have any ideas? Thanks a lot
 
Ya shouldnt need to switch to onboard graphics after a cmos clear, the mobo should automatically choose that for the display if theres no GPU installed, at least it always has on my mobos, i havent used AMD since 2005 though so im not sure bout them.

Only thing i can suggest is to try the GPU on another device, if its working ok then something else is probably broken.
 
Some cpus don't support display over them is your signature rig the one in question?

Have you tried another monitor?

having done some looking i THINK that your cpu does not have on board graphics, if it does it's hard to find this written down somewhere.

What PSU do you have by the way
 
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All sorted, turns out RAM was the issue, put stick from second slot into first slot and didn't put first one back in, there's a tiny discolouration on one of the pins so guess it was that, which was stopping the motherboard posting.

ty all
 
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