pretty sure my poor little card just got melted by fallout 4, looking for verification...

Roadkillv1

Roadkillv1

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tabbed into my game and boom, screen went black and green patterns with a nice buzz. shutdown, turned it on again, had windows screen, had start windows normally screen, loading....then black. i know it isn't booting into it because my pc isn't appearing on my home network, i pulled the card out and cleaned everything up but it didn't help. am i right in thinking that is what happened? would it normally do that?
 
Do you have a CPU with an onboard GPU? If so, remove your PCI GPU and use the onboard to check the PC is working ok without it.
 
well...i had another dvi socket so i pulled out the card and plugged the cable into that instead, but when i turn it on now i just get 2 short beeps and 1 long beep, which repeats until i turn it off. nothing on screen.
 
Put your card back in, enter BIOS and reset to defaults then save and power off the PC to remove the graphic card. Or just leave your card in and use the clear CMOS jumper or button on your motherboard. Hopefully one of these methods will let enable your onboard GPU.

From there I'd start by checking what version BIOS you have and is it the latest one? Also check that your video drivers are up-to-date, as these frequently have game fixes.

Which make and model motherboard do you have and which revision is it, if applicable? Also what is the current BIOS version?
 
ok i restored bios to default settings, turned it off, took out the old card and plugged the dvi into the normal socket built into the motherboard, turned it on, but i still just get the 2 short beeps followed by the long one....
 
i never had one actually, it was an ebay purchase a couple of years ago...can't see the name of it, but the beeping tells me it is a problem with my video card. which i guess i knew. it won't load the desktop. opening the game right before the screen went chaotic, i figured as much.
 
check in the bios to see if all the cpu, ram and hard drive/ssd's are showing up properly, it could be one those thats failed (any overclocks?) or even the motherboard that's gone wrong.

As it's showing up until windows and the other dvi socket isn't working either it's entirely possible it's something else.
 
i think so. i am definitely not overclocking, i don't even know how. i try not to mess around with my hardware. i took pictures and...well....i don't really know what to look for

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I wonder if your heatsink is on too tight - seen it mentioned a few times on here and re-seating the heatsink with less pressure can resolve onboard GPU issues with some Intel LGA chips.

Not something I've personally seen before, but it has to be worth a go.
 
ah, found it.

MSI MS-7613 Motherboard HP Iona-GL8E Intel H57 LGA 1156 DDR3 P/N 612500 -001


MSI HD 7770 GHz Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
GX-184-MS
 
Roadkillv1 said:
i only get the beeping when i pull the card out, like someone suggested. when trying to load as any other day, i don't get any beeps. just a black screen after the normal windows loading.
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When you first turn on with the graphics card installed and the monitor attached , does the monitor display anything at all?
 
Roadkillv1 said:
i think so. i am definitely not overclocking, i don't even know how. i try not to mess around with my hardware. i took pictures and...well....i don't really know what to look for
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Well looks ok assuming you only have 1 hard drive and an optical drive installed.

If you have more than 1 drive try booting with just 1 drive plugged in at a time starting with the one with the OS on (if you know which one it is). I've had an issue where it wouldn't boot into windows when more than one drive was plugged in but was fine when it was just the os drive.
 
Gabbatek said:
When you first turn on with the graphics card installed and the monitor attached , does the monitor display anything at all?
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it would show me the hp logo, then windows logo, then black.

i just dug out a very old basic card and put that in, and it loads now, albeit a lot smaller than my actual monitor so it looks like it just got overwhelmed and died....shame, only 2 years old but i guess it wasn't quite fallout worthy. i'll have to buy an average card until i get a new pc then, this one is almost 6 years old now with too many replaced parts.

without going too crazy, as it is only a temporary measure, this is the min and rec specs of what i need to play what i do (fallout can wait now until i get a new pc). any idea what a good priced one off the oc shop would be?

NVIDIA Geforce 8800 or higher, ATI Radeon HD 4770 or higher

NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 or higher, AMD Radeon HD 7950 or higher
 
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