Help please!!!

[chinspecial]

I don't know what's wrong with my computer.

Specs in sig.

Basically, this is what happened. One day I come to turn on my computer and it starts up like normal. Then it logs in like normal and everything loaded up, except the display.I unplugged the DVI cable and plugged it into the other port on the video card and the display popped up, but at 800x600 or something. Normally it's at 1600x1080, so I found this very strange.

Then I continued to check it in rivatuner and hardware and such. It read the card as normal, 8800GT, etc. I thought it was perhaps a driver problem, so I cleaned out my computer of old drivers and installed the new ones. But this did nothing. Same thing happened, so I thought of restarting the computer, and I went into the BIOS and changed it to onboard video - a mistake perhaps? Because then my computer wouldn't even start up correctly. It would boot up, but would not post. All the fans would just constantly spin at 100%. I tried removing the video card, reseating ot, etc, but nothing happened still.

Then I tried to take out the ram sticks one at a time, but to no avail. Then I just plugged all the sticks back in and started it up. Now instead of posting, my computer beeps 3 times and all the fans keep spinning. Anyone have an idea?

 

[norwood9]

Start in safe mode,to see what happens.

 

[chinspecial]

Um, perhaps I wasn't clear in my first post? Now the system won't even start up, as I tried to imply when I said it won't post.

 

[Nenu]

1 long beep followed by 2 short beeps is video adapter problem.
The most likely culprits being lack of power to the card (faulty PSU) or the card itself is faulty.

Try the card in another PC and/or try another PSU to help narrow it down.

 

[chinspecial]

1 long beep followed by 2 short beeps is video adapter problem.
The most likely culprits being lack of power to the card (faulty PSU) or the card itself is faulty.

Try the card in another PC and/or try another PSU to help narrow it down.

That's what I feared.

I'll try to get of another video card to test later. If it is the card, then it's not too bad I guess, just eVGA so I can RMA it, but I can RMA the psu too. Thanks for your help, I'll update with results later.