need urgent help

alterna88 · 11 Dec 2011 at 22:41

Out of sudden my PC stopped displaying image. I mean It is working and monitor is working, but it doesn't show anything! Could there be something wrong with my graphics card? like an overheating issue? How can i determine what is wrong?

Baldbloke · 11 Dec 2011 at 22:57

More info required. What spec is your pc? What do you see on screen? Error mssge? Black screen? Do you get to bios screen? As much info as you can offer will help.

Reaper 392 · 11 Dec 2011 at 23:02

does your motherboard/processor have onboard graphics. you could use this to check if the PC is working or not.

i had a similar problem to this and it turned out that my PC had decided that it didnt need a VGA driver any more and threw it out. a quick update of the driver (with the graphics card disconnected) solved it

alterna88 · 11 Dec 2011 at 23:16

Baldbloke said:
More info required. What spec is your pc? What do you see on screen? Error mssge? Black screen? Do you get to bios screen? As much info as you can offer will help.

-Asus GeForce GTX 275 896MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card
-Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz 4MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail
-Asus P5Q Deluxe Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
-Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750HXUK)
-Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 TwinX Dual Channel (TWIN2X4096-8500C5C)
-Western Digital Caviar Black 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD7501AALS)
-Coolermaster V8 CPU Cooler (Socket 940AM2LGA775LGA1366)
-Pioneer DVR-S18L 22x DVD±RW SATA Labelflash ReWriter - Black (Retail)

recently I've upgraded to an SSD and added another 4gb of ram, and it was working just fine.

As to now... it is working I mean it sounds like it is... the CPU fan is working in hight speed it used to work loud at booting but then after a few seconds quiet down, now it is working loud all the time. On the screen nothing happends, it says "no signal" hence I thought that there might be a GPU issue... I'm no professional, just on the other side... I have basic knowledge about PC... even tho I helped building this PC and upgraded it myself I have no experience with them...

alterna88 · 11 Dec 2011 at 23:16

Reaper 392 said:
does your motherboard/processor have onboard graphics. you could use this to check if the PC is working or not.

i had a similar problem to this and it turned out that my PC had decided that it didnt need a VGA driver any more and threw it out. a quick update of the driver (with the graphics card disconnected) solved it

erm... I wouldn't know... I've uploaded my spec in the previous post

mickyflinn · 11 Dec 2011 at 23:21

Are you overclocking ?

alterna88 · 11 Dec 2011 at 23:26

overclocking?!

opstrat · 11 Dec 2011 at 23:29

alterna88 said:
overclocking?!

have u adjusted any settings in ur bios?

alterna88 · 11 Dec 2011 at 23:35

not really... other than the order of booting... I mean priority settings I haven't touche anything at all

opstrat · 11 Dec 2011 at 23:40

on the back of ur pc other than where u plug in ur monitor cable is there another vga port that u can try, it see if the problem lies in ur graphics card.

what is ur order of booting?

alterna88 · 11 Dec 2011 at 23:48

ok I'll try that...
order of booting is to my SSD

alterna88 · 11 Dec 2011 at 23:50

nope the other port isn't working either =(

azibux1 · 11 Dec 2011 at 23:57

opstrat said:
on the back of ur pc other than where u plug in ur monitor cable is there another vga port that u can try, it see if the problem lies in ur graphics card.

what is ur order of booting?

alterna88 said:
nope the other port isn't working either =(

Surely the onboard graphics would be disabled while the graphics card is installed, so what the OP needs to do is remove their graphics card, then try the onboard graphics?

alterna88 · 12 Dec 2011 at 00:00

???? So I should take out the GPU???

TNGL · 12 Dec 2011 at 00:03

Are there any beeps you can hear? Were there any beeps in the first place?

azibux1 · 12 Dec 2011 at 00:08

alterna88 said:
???? So I should take out the GPU???

Wait for someone elses advice.

But this PC I built recently is my first ever PC, and when I installed the gfx card, it disabled the onboard graphics.

So to test your onboard graphics I am fairly sure you will need to take the gfx card out

alterna88 · 12 Dec 2011 at 00:19

Tingle said:
Are there any beeps you can hear? Were there any beeps in the first place?

nope, no beeps. It sounds just fine as working... the problem is that there is no image,

alterna88 · 12 Dec 2011 at 10:41

is there no other way to test the GPU??

alterna88 · 12 Dec 2011 at 10:56

I also read that this Motherboard doest have onboard graphics =(

Davefran · 12 Dec 2011 at 10:56

azibux1 said:
Surely the onboard graphics would be disabled while the graphics card is installed, so what the OP needs to do is remove their graphics card, then try the onboard graphics?

azibux1 said:
Wait for someone elses advice.

But this PC I built recently is my first ever PC, and when I installed the gfx card, it disabled the onboard graphics.

So to test your onboard graphics I am fairly sure you will need to take the gfx card out

His motherboard doesn't have onboard graphics.
Do you have a friend nearby with an Nvidia GPU who can either let you test your card in his PC or, test his GPU in your PC.