Hello all! As I was placing my Radeon 7950 back to its PCI-e -slot after dust cleaning (pressurized air). I foolishly blindly plugged the m-DP (by feeling of my finger) to the GPU. As it was almost plugged and with my finger near, there was a flashy sparky discharge which stung my finger.
After that I have not been able to get any signal to my monitor from the GPU. Everything seemed to work fine when booting - every fan worked, there's some reading happening in sys HDD (I assume it goes to the login screen) and the motherboard (ASRock P67 P3) didn't report any errors from its own debug screen. But I couldn't get any signal with any wire or GPU (I tried DVI, HDMI, m-DP and switched the GPU to my older one, HD 6870). Not even BIOS signal goes to my monitor. I tried to work my monitor with my laptop and it did, so there's no problem there.
Anyway, after switching between my GPUs and just trying my tricks or my luck. It seems now that motherboard has difficulties recognising the GPU because the debug screen sometimes reports an "d6"-error which reads in manual as "No console output devices are found" which I assume means the GPU. But still when sometimes booting, the motherboard finds all the parts and seems to work fine (except not giving any screen signal).
So best scenario imo: the PCI slot is only worn out and the motherboard needs replacing.
Worst scenario: the static discharge in the mini Display Driver output spread and damaged my GPU, motherboard, RAM, power supply, CPU or 'just' some parts. Has this happened to anyone else? Any knowledge or opinions about how much damage can a static discharge cause when it starts from GPU? It just seems to me that there is very likely a damage caused by a discharge. I just need to know what exactly is damaged.
If I start fixing this by replacing my motherboard with a new one. Is there a good chance that the faulty parts will damage the new motherboard? This is quite worrying. I'm not an expert in this field and the money to buy new working parts is quite limited. I'm in desperate need of your opinions and help because I'm unsure what to do.
Thank you for reading and maybe trying to understand the possible gibberish I just wrote. Any help is appreciated!
After that I have not been able to get any signal to my monitor from the GPU. Everything seemed to work fine when booting - every fan worked, there's some reading happening in sys HDD (I assume it goes to the login screen) and the motherboard (ASRock P67 P3) didn't report any errors from its own debug screen. But I couldn't get any signal with any wire or GPU (I tried DVI, HDMI, m-DP and switched the GPU to my older one, HD 6870). Not even BIOS signal goes to my monitor. I tried to work my monitor with my laptop and it did, so there's no problem there.
Anyway, after switching between my GPUs and just trying my tricks or my luck. It seems now that motherboard has difficulties recognising the GPU because the debug screen sometimes reports an "d6"-error which reads in manual as "No console output devices are found" which I assume means the GPU. But still when sometimes booting, the motherboard finds all the parts and seems to work fine (except not giving any screen signal).
So best scenario imo: the PCI slot is only worn out and the motherboard needs replacing.
Worst scenario: the static discharge in the mini Display Driver output spread and damaged my GPU, motherboard, RAM, power supply, CPU or 'just' some parts. Has this happened to anyone else? Any knowledge or opinions about how much damage can a static discharge cause when it starts from GPU? It just seems to me that there is very likely a damage caused by a discharge. I just need to know what exactly is damaged.
If I start fixing this by replacing my motherboard with a new one. Is there a good chance that the faulty parts will damage the new motherboard? This is quite worrying. I'm not an expert in this field and the money to buy new working parts is quite limited. I'm in desperate need of your opinions and help because I'm unsure what to do.
Thank you for reading and maybe trying to understand the possible gibberish I just wrote. Any help is appreciated!
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