Video Card Fried?


by JamesCGamora

16 years, 4 months ago

Ok so I need some help from some of you computer hardware literate ghostheads.

I was on vacation for 8 days and I just got back yesterday. I immediately try and get on the computer at home and everything but the monitor is working correctly…after 30 seconds of black screen the monitor goes into sleep mode.

I whipped out my laptop and plugged the monitor to it to test the monitor to see if it has gone bad but the monitor (and the cable connection the monitor) work fine but once I plug the monitor back to the computer it will give me 30 seconds of a black screen and then go into sleep mode.

I have a theory that the video card fried while I was gone but I need a second opinion.

by boholbrook1

16 years, 4 months ago

It sounds like your video card is indeed fried. Had a similar problem myself.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3855382&CatId=3585

Just buy a new one and see if it works, they're cheap enough now.

by JamesCGamora

16 years, 4 months ago

I had a sinking suspicion for some time that the card was going bad. But to be honest it was always in the back of my head. Over the almost 3 years I have had that computer that monitor has taken a lot of punnishment (dropped several and survived a desk collapse ) so any video problems I always chalked it up to the monitor. Recently I (weeks prior to vacation) I had been having problems with the computer monitor going into sleep mode and staying there not wanting to come out…but, like I said earlier I thought it was just the monitor going bad…But the monitor and the cable connection checks out fine…not just on my laptop but a friends computer as well.

by Mat.

16 years, 4 months ago

That happened to me a few years ago. I tried it with a different monitor and it worked fine I believe.

Now more recently, the monitor on the computer I was using up until 3 weeks ago worked fine, even after throwing an empty beer bottle at it. The computer? not so much, having ripped it out of the wall and spiking it off the ground…

I like my laptop, good laptop *pats laptop*

by JamesCGamora

16 years, 4 months ago

I'd love my laptop too if it didn't have Vistaids on it. Which I am stuck with for another 13 months or it voids my warantee. But I can tell you one thing…once that warantee is up…I am downgrading to XP

by jesusfreak1

16 years, 4 months ago

JamesCGamora
I'd love my laptop too if it didn't have Vistaids on it. Which I am stuck with for another 13 months or it voids my warantee. But I can tell you one thing…once that warantee is up…I am downgrading to XP

Hope you already bought your copy, because they removed it from shelves on the 30th of June. QQ

It does sound like the video card may be fried, is it an AGP or PCI or PCI express and does your system have an onboard graphics port?

by Kingpin

16 years, 4 months ago

It may also be worth checking to see if it could be the port in your PC that the screen's cable plugs into, in the pursuit of ruling everything else out before purchasing a new graphics card.

by JamesCGamora

16 years, 4 months ago

I can't really tell you much about the card itself but I can tell you that the computer has no onboard graphics port

by muthapussbucket1

16 years, 4 months ago

Try majorgeeks.com


They'll help.

by JamesCGamora

16 years, 4 months ago

Update:

I have been able to confirm definately that the card itself has been tried. First off of, I tried plugging up a brand new monitor with the same results with my own monitor.

Secondly I finally got around to cracking open the pcu and saw visual “burn” marks on the card itself.

Also to answer a previous questions it is a PCI express card.