Hi!
I am desperately in need of help, since my (only) video card just broke down and I can't afford a new one right now.
So here's my problem:
About 18 hours after shutdown, I try to start my computer. It doesn't boot, although all the fans turn on. It starts beeping, but as I was unaware this might be a code, I turned it off, thinking it was just overheated or something and commenced blowing through the whole case. The fan and cooling element on the video card looked absolutely smuthered in dust, so being quite handy I took it off of the chip, cleaned it and reapplied some thermal paste I still had lying around. Upon completion and reinstalling everything the system still wouldn't boot, so after digging a little deeper I find that the particular beeping pattern means that the video card isn't working properly. Since then I've taken it out some times, taking off the cooling element as well, but it wouldn't make a difference, the system simply won't boot.
Does anyone have any thoughts about what could be the problem? The last thing it did before shutdown was stream a movie, so it can't be overheated.
Thanks in advance for any answers, thoughts or advice!
Specs:
HP Pavilion p6060
ATI Radeon HD4650 (stock)
4GB RAM
Windows 7
I am desperately in need of help, since my (only) video card just broke down and I can't afford a new one right now.
So here's my problem:
About 18 hours after shutdown, I try to start my computer. It doesn't boot, although all the fans turn on. It starts beeping, but as I was unaware this might be a code, I turned it off, thinking it was just overheated or something and commenced blowing through the whole case. The fan and cooling element on the video card looked absolutely smuthered in dust, so being quite handy I took it off of the chip, cleaned it and reapplied some thermal paste I still had lying around. Upon completion and reinstalling everything the system still wouldn't boot, so after digging a little deeper I find that the particular beeping pattern means that the video card isn't working properly. Since then I've taken it out some times, taking off the cooling element as well, but it wouldn't make a difference, the system simply won't boot.
Does anyone have any thoughts about what could be the problem? The last thing it did before shutdown was stream a movie, so it can't be overheated.
Thanks in advance for any answers, thoughts or advice!
Specs:
HP Pavilion p6060
ATI Radeon HD4650 (stock)
4GB RAM
Windows 7
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