PC packed up please help

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PapaLazaru

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Hi chaps. This is the chain of events which happened yesterday -

Right I am on a different PC as mine has packed up totally. This is the chain of events -

1. PC working fine.
2. Download 'Evil Genius' from Steam
3. Browsing the net works fine.
4. Go to boot up L4D2. Get a black screen, intermittent music and PC crashed. ATI VPU recovery has kicked in.
5. Went to ATI to get latest drivers. Dowloaded full ATI CCC again.
6. Reinstalled it over the old one. (yeah I am lazy)
7. Tried to boot up BF2. Same issue. L4D2 doing same again.
8. Go to boot up Evil Genius. Will boot up though half of the screen is black on loading. Game plays fine.
9. Go to MS to check DirectX all correct. It is.
10. Go to do fresh reinstall of latest ATI drivers. Unistalled in correct order then rebooted into safe mode as I was going to use DriverCleaner to make sure all deleted.
11. PC sounds like it is booting up but getting a black screen. No BIOS or anything coming up. Light on the GPU flicks on so it appears to be working.

Hardware problem? I think my GPU has packed up :(

Any help would be greatly appreciated, especially on this day of rest.
 
Sounds like your GPU cooler failed and the card has fried. If the computer has onboard graphics, remove the graphics card and use onboard for the time being.
 
richb93 said:
Sounds like your GPU cooler failed and the card has fried. If the computer has onboard graphics, remove the graphics card and use onboard for the time being.
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This is what I thought yesterday.

I checked all the temps and everything was fine apart from the card which was idling at 52c. I know this is not hot, but it is a lot higher than normal? Could have pushed it over the edge when I booted up a game.

I have a really old ATI card which I will fit and try and reboot to see what happens.

Thanks for your responses so far.!
 
Ah bugger it I am such a numpty. My old card is AGP so cannot test whether to see if it is the GPU. :D

I am not great with PC's but would the general consensus on here be that the GPU has failed?

Just no output to the monitor. I know it could be something else but I really do not want to buy parts until I find out what the problem is. Am planning for a nice upgrade in March for BC2 but would much prefer to leave it as it is.

Would you risk buying a new GPU? or should I be doing a bit more digging. the problem with that is I will have to send it to someone who I know but they will charge me £30.00 to tell me what has gone wrong.

I was looking at this -

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-121-OK&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=

My rig -

MS XP
Corsair TX750w PSU
ATI Radeon 2900XT GPU
Intel E6600 processor
MSI P31 Neo V2 mobo
2 x 1gb Corsair DDR2 ram (got 2 more sticks but never got them to work)

Antec 300 gaming case & 2 x seagate HD's.
 
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Get a 4850...Sorted. Id say the GPU, long as you've tried resetting the CMOS and reseating the card.
 
I would test it with an old PCI gfx card before splashing out on an expensive card incase it isnt the problem!!

That issue could be a number of things, infact nearly anything.

Why don't you just ask a kind forum member to test the card for you? just an idea???
 
Right guys I managed to blag an old ATI X1600XT card which I fitted.

BIOS reset itself as I had some overclocking going on with the other card but PC has booted up fine.

So definitely a GPU problem and thank god, nothing else.

So the hunt for a new card begins. I have around £100.00 to spend and would welcome suggestions :)

Thanks to all that have assisted me so far as well!
 
More damn problems :(

I have ordered a new GPU, an ATI 5770.

Since I put in the old ATI 1600XT, my when I go to boot uo my PC, it turns itself off and on a few times before it will boot up. BIOS then tells me my overclocking has failed. I reset the setting to 'failsafe' and it still does it. I have also reset the CMOS and same is happening even though I have checked all the settings. RAM issue?
 
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