Posible graphics card problem - help with diagnosis please?

[Messy]

Hi

I have an "XFX ATI Radeon 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express" Graphics Card connected to an "Asus P8P67 Pro Intel P67 Mainboard - B3 Revision".

Left the computer on standby all night, when I got up this morning there was nothing coming through to the two monitors.

All the lights are on in the tower, all the internal an external connections seem fine, the fans are all whirring away ... the only other thing I noticed was no motherboard bleep when I tried to reboot it.

The Windows sound was muted anyway, so no way of telling if the OS was coming to life or not.

I haven't got any spare parts to start swapping stuff around ... but it looks like something's gonna need to go back to O/C for exchange - I just don't want to send in the wrong part.


Thank you

 

[tommybhoy]

Unplug gpu, reset the cmos plug card back in, cross your fingers and don't use standby again, just power down/up instead.

 

[stevewah]

Did windows do an update. I had windows do up dates for me once and it updated my gpu . And i ened up with black screens . I re formated and it sorted it

 

[Messy]

There was a windows update pending but I hadn't actually done it.

By standby I mean - screens off after an hour but I don't *think* I had it set to hibernate. I have so much stuff going on I just get too lazy to reboot.

I'll try unplugging and resetting everything and see what happens ...

cheers

 

[Messy]

Pulling the cmos battery seems to have done it!

It gave me a message about "system resume" - which, when selected took me into a continuous loop - so I chose to delete it instead return to the boot menu.

It seems to have fixed it, but I'm curious to what caused it ... at least I know my hardware is intact

Thank you

 

[tommybhoy]

Cool, glad you fixed it.