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forrehmmnd

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Ok, My pc was happy last night, fine and dandy. was pwning noobs on css. This morning, i wake up, goto school, come home from school, turn on the comp to resume the noob pwning and no video. The card fan revs like it always does but it doesnt throttle down like normal. ive tried two monitors, still no avail. Ive also tried my back up voodoo 3, same thing. Its gotten into windows once, the only reason i could tell is the windows opening sounds played. i could only get it to post and boot once. HELP
 
a more descriptive thread title wouldnt hurt... take out your ram and put only ONE stick back in. make sure its in there nice and tight and that the clips on either side are fastened, boot up, increase mem voltage in bios to proper value. that will most likely solve your problem. if that doesnt work, keep the one stick of ram in, and go to set default values. that should set things straight, anyways good luck

bcracer220
 
same problem, tried every stick of ram, one at a time in the first slot. thanks for the suggestion.
 
clear the cmos and it should boot, look in ur motherboard manual, theres a jumper which allows u do to do it. gl

bcracer220
 
Motherboard may very well be shot. Try the card in another machine if possible. Same with the RAM. Try a different PSU if possible. In short, narrow the source of the problem down as much as possible.

Also look on the motherboard for swollen/leaking electrolytic capacitors (cylinders, normally have a metal top).
 
thanks so much guys. im pretty sure its the motherboard, got the same answer from someone at school. It does look like 1 or 2 capacitors may be swollen, but ive never been a good judge at determining that. i might as well replace the mother-board, ughhhh. and im broke =..( no comp for me for a while)
 
do you get and bepps,maybe flashing lights telling you the problem. is the voodoo3 a pci are agp slot?
 
the voodoo 3 is a pci slot, the the x850 is pci express. i got long a long beeps and two short beeps which if i remember right is motherboard failure.
 
ok so i was wrong. its the video card. forgot that on my mobo it has an "optimized" pci slot for video and sound. i put the voodoo 3 in there and at least i have a whole pc. problem is, i only have 4 colors and a 800 x600 res. are there any drivers for vista ?
 
forrehmmnd said:
ok so i was wrong. its the video card. forgot that on my mobo it has an "optimized" pci slot for video and sound. i put the voodoo 3 in there and at least i have a whole pc. problem is, i only have 4 colors and a 800 x600 res. are there any drivers for vista ?
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Don't believe so. Surprised it can't 'talk' to it out of the box but then again it is really, really old. The most recent version of Windows with drivers for any 3DFX card is XP.
 
ugh, well thanks for the help guys, just guess ill have to wait for an rma then, since microcenter only has a 30 day return policy.
 
I know your vid card is a bit old, but you may want to see if it's still under warranty if you didn't make any modifications to the card. If so, you may be able to get it RMA'd.

Just to double check, you may want to put the vid card back in and try it again if you have not done so. It may have slipped a little bit out of the slot and not getting a good connection. It wouldn't be the first time this has happened to me before.

 
its still under warranty and will be shipped out on Monday as previously stated. Ive only had the card 7 months. i tend to have really bad luck with video cards. Im positive its dead, reseated it countless times with the same result.
 
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