Help! What's wrong with my rig?

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Soldur

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OK, so I had just finished a session of Call of Duty 2 and when I exited the game my rig decided to reboot itsself. Never done that before...

When it came back up there was no more display, I could hear the Windows music but nothing on the screen. So I turned the screen off and back on and still nothing. I was able to shut down my computer using the Windows Key > U > Enter. I'm thinking this rules out a hard drive/controller or processor/RAM problem due to overclocking.

I figured I had a blown video card so I took out my x850pro and put my good 'ole standby 9800pro(working just fine when I replaced it a couple of months ago) in, and powered it back on. Still no display?!?

Right now I'm at a loss, I'm going to try the monitor off of my wife's computer in a little bit, but I really don't think it is the monitor. My only other thought it to go and buy a PCI video card and see if it is something related to the AGP slot. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
 
Next guess would be motherboard malfunction. What exactly, no idea.
 
You're on the right track, there's not much else you can try that I can think of after all that.
 
if your vid card is bad, or your agp slot is bad, this is reported at post and you will generally get a beep code or a no-boot. does your mainboard have diagnostic lights? do you have another monitor you can swap in? do the usual reseat card, clear cmos, check connections ?
 
even checking the cable since that might be the thing. try everything you can think of that could cause a problem
 
Well, my rig is up and going again, no clue what the hell happened, but here was my experience...

With my old 9800 Pro in, I still had no display on my DVI LCD monitor. I decided to go and get my old monitor(analog) and plug it in. Viola! I had display again :)

So then I put my x850pro back in and it worked great when hooked up to my old(analog) monitor. I fired up some games and no issues at all.

Plugged my DVI LCD back in and no display. So after some digging I found the analog cable for my LCD monitor and decided to give that a try. After switching to the analog cable, my display worked perfectly!

My dilemma now is that it absolutely will not run off of the DVI interface on my new card or my old one. Any ideas on this one would be appreciated. BTW I'm using a 19" Sceptre Naga IV (currently running on the analog side).

Post Mortem Analysis: The DVI side on my monitor died? Makes no sense to me why in the world that would boot my PC, but w/e I guess :( Wish I had another DVI monitor to try, I can't believe that it is a problem with my rig itsself since I doubt the DVI port went bad on both cards....

Thanks to all those that helped, and those that may offer advice on my new findings. I sure would like to go back to the DVI side...
 
yea i knew it wasnt mainboard prob. somehow the dig interface on the panel died. i hear sceptre cs is ok. also, there is a fine display forum here with a huge thread on sceptre, mostly the wide screen 20.1", tho.
 
When switching between DVI and VGA did you use two seperate cables or just the converter? Either way one or both of them has faults, maybe it went and surged back to the card causing it to reboot?

Other than that, I have no idea... glad you can at least use your rig though..
 
I spent hours troubleshooting once just because the DVI cable was plugged in too loosely (just barely hanging on) - whole screen turned bright right red for about half an hour then whent out completely.


StealthyFish said:
even checking the cable since that might be the thing. try everything you can think of that could cause a problem
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