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graphics card borked?

helpimcrap

helpimcrap

helpimcrap

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My mums pc plays up to the point it's unusable - grahpics card is X800 and motherboard is S939 DFI Lanparty ultra D. PSU is enermax 480w. All are around 6years old. It won't boot as the graphic card spins up to max and stays there. No screen or anything and the HDD light stays on. HDD is a samsung 500gb.
If i take the side of the case off and press the graphics card and wiggle a bit it will boot.
Is it the motherboard or the graphics card? It refused to boot other month as gfx card was chocca full of dust and it overheated so thinking it's the gfx card.
Right call?
 
possibly only way to tell is try another card if u can borrow or swap one

it could be the contacts in the slot which as u say if you wiggle it it works .... hard to tell but that would be my first try ...
 
I assume only 1 GPU slot? If so, take out the gpu, clean away any dust built up, reseat the GPU and see if this helps at all. Possibly the slot has a broken connector and wiggling it makes it work (connect).
 
the motherboard is a dfi lanparty ultra d nf4. it has 2x 16x pci-express slots.

the graphics card is an ati x1800xt.

i've tried it in both slots although i think now the windows is corrupted as it will boot almost every time and gets as far as windows password screen where it freezes the mouse and the keyboard.

thinking re-install windows next and see if it helps?
 
I had the same motherboard. Sold it to a friend alongside a San Diego 3700+ a while back. After about a year I think the PCI-E slots gave up on him. Worked in the other PCI-E slot for about 4-8 weeks then none of the slots would recognize the card and like you, had to wiggle it to get it working sometimes till no matter the amount of wiggling done anything and now the motherboard I think is in my bedroom somewhere. I hope this isn't what is happening to yours but to be fair, it's ran for all this time.

If it's the motherboard, you should be able to pick a second hand motherboard for very cheap.
 
buying an intel extreme processor(p4 i think)/zalman cooler/motherboard/8gb DDR3 1600mhz/850w PSU for £90 off a mate. :)

case and drives are all ok so thats cool.
 
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