Did I fry my GPU ?

fossilbob

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Sep 19, 2013
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Hello

So, i was playing "Raven" on old P4 system with agp 3850 and left for a moment.After coming back I noticed suspicious silence, which could only mean that gpu heatsink fan has stopped working in my case.GPU temp was high as 106c.
After shutdown I removed heatsink, checked for physical damages, installed heatsink again with new thermal paste and 120mm fan with zipties to blow air on.Just in case did a clear cmos.
Which I didnt get was picture on my lcd.I tried both dvi connectors.
I did get 1 short beep after POST which to my knowledge means that systems ok.


My system

P4 prescott 3.0ghz
intel d865perl
club3d 3850agp
wd black 1TB
silver power 500w

Thanks!
 
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The fan turned off meaning that your motherboard/fan killed you GPU but yeah. I'd tell you to try another AGP card but I'm guessing you don't have something that old lying around. All that you can do is make sure that the video cable and monitor are in working order. Make sure you reapplied your fan correctly as well. I'm guessing you did fry it, but it's not some top-of-the-line graphics card.
 

fossilbob

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But it is a top notch agp card and its working.I tested it in another machine.
Now i cant get past intel logo.I did another clear cmos, started pc with 1 ram stick and gpu only.Had cmos checksum and set cmos clock, went to BIOS, did set clock, loaded optimized defaults. Restarted pc with HDD connected and it halts with intel logo.
Repeated this step by step with 3 different RAM sticks.