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VGA Problems I will suck #$%# for help

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Trinitrotoluene

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ok just kidding,

I tried to boot up my computer this morning and nothing showed up on my monitor. I checked the diagnostic LED's for my MSI K8tneo motherboard and two reds lights on the left side were lit.The manual says this is for "Testing VGA Bios - This Will Start Writing VGA Sign-On Message To The Screen."

The video card is a year old radeon 9800 pro with the artic cooling VGA Silencer attached. The fan is running so I know power is being supplied. I checked all the connections and nothing would show up on screen. Any suggestions? Thanks Alot!
 
ah... take card out of slot , and put card back in. prehaps some dust wiggled its way in.

thats a long shot .. but a start.
 
If you have any other computers in your house, steal their videocard and see if that helps...kinda hard to diagnose without other hardware.
 
geekcomputing said:
ah... take card out of slot , and put card back in. prehaps some dust wiggled its way in.

thats a long shot .. but a start.
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THat's what I would do too. Except I would push it in further than you think needed, just a little bit more. AGP slot are funny, if it is slight up, the motherboard with beep and you basically have no video card although it is inserted in. Doesn't matter if the screw can go in or not.

If that doesn't work, then you have a hardware failure, not necessary on your video card. It could be the motherboard causing this. This is definitely not a window issue. It is a hardware issue. You have to send it in.

When you do all these, make sure you unplug the power supply to the computer, and when done, boot up the computer w/o the VGA cable connected to the video card.
 
well, in the case of video, that does make it more difficult.

Remove your other cards, disconnect your drives and try to power on the system.
If that doesn't work, you can clear your BIOS settings and with any luck it will have a failsafe option.

In the past, I have found this type of problem often not to be the vid card, but the caps in the mainboard or the power supply going out. Loading in failsafe (generally 100MHz fsb) will drop the power load and should allow the system to POST if this is the problem. If the card is dead, you'll have to find a card to test with. Odd are you can find a computer shop somewhere around that will sell you or loan you a dinky PCI card to try. The problem I ran into here was the card I tested with did not draw as much power as the Geforce 3 I thought had died, so the system worked until a decent card had been purchased.
 
Hmm...

I vote again for try a different video card. First thing I would recommend is trying a different monitor but since your MSI error code says its the videocard, it's safe to say the videocard took a dump. Also, try using you video card in another system.

Now if the video card is bad... I don't know if ATI will let you return it since you changed the cooler. Unless you kept the cooler in which case switch it back. :confused: Anyone know?
 
0ldman said:
find a computer shop somewhere around that will sell you or loan you a dinky PCI card to try.
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I would recommend using AGP card because it will detemine if your AGP slot is bad.
 
Odds of the shop giving him a loaner that would have the same power draw would be slim, so it still wouldn't be a definate answer even if it was an AGP card.

A computer shop would be more likely to give out a used PCI than AGP.
 
hey .. try this ..

1)take out video card ..
2)take out memory
3)install video card
4)install memory
5)cross fingers
6)start

if that doesn't work reverse steps 3 & 4

good luck
 
mohammedtaha said:
hey .. try this ..

1)take out video card ..
2)take out memory
3)install video card
4)install memory
5)cross fingers
6)start

if that doesn't work reverse steps 3 & 4

good luck
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no luck... what is really strange is that I moved my computer two nights ago just a few inches while it was still on. It ran for another hour after that with no problems. Then in the morning I turned it on and the problem started.

I am going to my parents this weeked so I will try their video card.
 
ok my radeon 9800 pro did not work in my dads case so the card is toast. I replacing the arctic cooler with the stock fan but have a quick question. Other than the pins the hold the fan to the board, are there any other screws that lock the fan in place. It seems loose but I forgot what else goes on there.
 
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