Something is fried?

DanMc07 · 1 May 2010 at 11:50

Hello,

Over the past week or so my computer has crashed a few times (like the graphics card had packed in and the screen went all fuzzy and different colours). A simple reboot would solve this problem.

Now just a few days back it happenend again. But this time, when I go to restart my PC, no image appears up on the screen and no beeps for startup either.

I just thought that the GPU had died but I've put the the monitor lead into the mobo gpu socket and I still get no image on screen.

Any ideas?

Deleted member 77746 · 1 May 2010 at 11:52

Try another graphics card first. I no you used the onboard but is it set to on in the bios (if it's not one of these boards with auto detect on). Might be wise to mention the specification of your computer first.

DanMc07 · 1 May 2010 at 11:54

shouldnt i get an image from the port on the mobo that I can connect one of them leads that go to the monitor?

EDIT;

I see you've edited your post.

It's quite an old system

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz
Asus P5K-VM Intel G33 Micro ATX
7800 GTX
OCZ ModXStream Pro 500w
Some crappy Geil 2GB ram

Don't think I'll be able to try out a new card until atleast Wednesday seen as it's bank holiday

(taking delivery into account etc).

Deleted member 77746 · 1 May 2010 at 12:00

Have you got any overclock? You rest the bios? Upgraded your bios? If the answer is yes to the following something is definatly up. What I suggest you could do is remove all componants from the system. Put it on a test bench and connect your componants back up. Change things like RAM, Graphics Card, CPU e.t.c (If you have spares to test with) and do it bit by bit till you get to the problem.

ard-tullaich · 1 May 2010 at 12:24

Is the heatsinks clean of dust ?

EsaT · 1 May 2010 at 18:01

DanMc07 said:
shouldnt i get an image from the port on the mobo that I can connect one of them leads that go to the monitor?

Might require removing external card and reseting BIOS to get mobo up if that GeForce is what caused this.

And is PSU starting?
That cheap OCZ is full CapXon, Teapo or what ever Chinese cheap capacitors grab bag of cheapness happened to contain.