gfx card stopped working in my machine, anything I can try?

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    Hi, Recently I was swappping a heatsink for my chipset. When I put my gfx card back in (PCI-e) it didn't work. I took the gfx card to work and it works fine in my work computer.

    I think I buggered the mobo somehow. What I want to know is if is there is any trick or anything that might get it to work again?

    Also, is it possible it could be the gfx card and not the mobo, even though it works in my work copmuter?

    Cheers
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    try clearing the cmos jumper as found that to work sometimes on stubborn systems. did that on a customer's pc that was not sending a signal & it worked.
     
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    Coudn't find a jumper so did things the old fashioned way with the battery. No luck

    :'(

    The only thing I can add is that when I try to get output from the graphics card there is are several clicking sounds as though it is trying to do something, kind of like a hard drive or disc drive noise and then I get the system beep and no signal.

    If I plug into onboard gfx the clicking noise doesn't happen and the system beep is sooner before it works. Odd but probably not going to help me fix things...

    Cheers
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    when connecting to the onboard video, did you unplug the pci-e videocard?
     
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    No but the onboard video works. What are you thinking?
    Cheers
     
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    didn't read that the onboard video was working. have you tried reseating the card with a bit more force?
     
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    No Sorry I didn't make that clear. I have reseated it about 1000 times. I've used a lot of force once it is in but I wouldn't say I've actually slotted it in with a lot of force, er if that makes sense? Is that what you meant?
    Cheers
     
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    Sounds a little like it is booting with nthe internal enabled.. is there a bios setting anywhere for graphics pci/agp?
     
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    do you know anybody that has a pci-e videocard to see if does same thing in your pc?
     
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    I'm prettty sure the BIOS is set to boot PCI-e first. As, I said this problem started after I had switched a heatsink, with no changes to the BIOS.

    I'm hoping to find a spare PCI-e card to try but I'm just wandering if there were any tricks that I didn't know about that might make it work.

    So it is possible that my gfx card could be broke rather than the mobo even though it worked in my work machine???

    Cheers
     
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    i think your card is good as it is working in the other pc.
     
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    I thought that was the case I was just hoping it wasn't as it is a lot easier to replace a card than a mobo.

    :(
     
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    2nd that as i just finished replacing a motherboard in a customer's emachine that crapped out. had to reload xp from scratch as old board was intel chipset & new board is via chipset. couldn't use his recovery disk because of that change.
     
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    Well I will try to test another PCI-e card but I doubt it will work. If not I see two solutions

    1) BUy a PCI graphics card
    2) Replace the motherboard

    Option 1 is slightly more expensive and my final machine won't be as good.

    OPtion 2 will have my machine back to optimum but there is more chance that something could break.

    Are PCI graphics cards any good?

    Cheers
     
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    not really. what are you using the pc for?
     
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    At the moment I am quite busy with work so my computer is not that reliant on graphics. I predominantly run Fedora and the compiz fusion graphics just ain't the same with onboard graphics.

    When I have time I am a casual gamer with BF2 my favourite. That runs okay on the lowest setting on onboard graphics but with my 256Mb card it runs really well with all the graphics on highest settings. I also have MSF X which I am sure would struggle with onboard...

    GUess I will have to replace the mobo, argh hope I don't cock that up!
     
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    Doh! There are next to 0 socket 939s out there!
     
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    check ebay as they do have some.
     
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    if same chipset as old motherboard as in via, sis or amd then should have no problem. if different chipset then will have to reload windows.
     
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