Setting BIOS to default killed my gfx?

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I recently bought a new PC so my old PC got relegated to non-gaming status. I thought that I would no longer need to overclock the old system so I went into BIOS, reset everything to default and restarted. Upon reboot the system wouldn't post, all I recieved was 1 Long Beep followed by 2 Short Beeps.

My Mobo is an A8N-SLI Deluxe, so apparantly this means that my Graphics Card is now fubared: http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/awardbeep.htm
(I'm not 100% sure I have the right code-table, could someone confirm this for me?)

I've taken out the battery and cleared the CMOS and it still doesn't work. Next step is trying another PCI-E gfx card but I'm not about to stick my new 8800GTX in there.

I haven't had to do anything to the PC for since I first set it up and overclocked it over two years ago, it's been immensly stable and served me very well but this is just gutting. Having just spent over 2 grand on a new system I'm not best pleased by the prospect of having to buy a new gfx card for my old PC just to get it working again.

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U sure you didnt knock the card loose on clearing the CMOS or something silly?....

Can't say i've heard of 'reset to defaults kills card' before, its one for the books if it truly did.
 
It failed to boot before I even touched that case, I reset to defaults just in BIOS so I couldn't have knocked the card.

The PC was working fine, I restarted, went it to BIOS, did 'Reset to Defaults', F10 to Save and Quit, then the very next boot it died on me.

I've since taken the card out and re-seated it but that didn't help :(
 
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Decided to buy a cheap pci-e card to test with. I hope it works and it's not the motherboard that pooped :(
 
Maybe the bios failed to save correctly and its corrupted.

If the bios chip has gone, not much you can do but get a replacement chip or board.
 
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