I think my video card has failed

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Msi 890fxa gd65
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phenom II 1100t
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I get no video at all, no post. I get no beeps, even when I take ram out. I think the mobo has no status indicator other than the 8 leds. All 8 phase blue and stay on whether I take everything out or not. I haven't messed with the cpu though. It has been in there a long time and shouldn't need to be reseated or anything. All fans work. Tried each stick of ram in each of dimm1 and dimm4. HDMI and dport cables tested. Monitor is fine. It powers on and stays on with 8 leds on mobo, fans running, no video, no matter what I do. Unfortunately I don't have an extra video card to test it. Nothing in usb ports. Took battery out to reset cmos. Not sure what else to try.
 
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Yes ofcourse! The gpu does try to send a signal, and the monitor understands it, but due to the malfunctioning you get no...
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No bios screen, nothing at all. I'm not sure what could have happened. It was working perfectly fine last night and I shut it down normally. No warnings. No storms or surges that I know of. Today it suddenly does this when I tried to boot.
 
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You havent touched anything in the case at all, before this issue was created?
 
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I had no reason to. This was just from last night to today and seems to have happened for no good reason. My crap case doesn't have a speaker and neither does the motherboard, although I suppose I could go buy a cheap 4 pin mobo speaker and plug it into JFP2 to hear some feedback? Not sure what else to do.
 
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Yes do that, and report the post error code for further help!
 
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Well I am getting 1 long beep and 2 short ones. I looked it up and it says " 1 long, 2 short - Indicates a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information "

So, I assume it's my video card that has crapped out. I have taken it out and reinserted it with no luck. If the power supply is bad and not providing enough power to the card (GTX780 HOF) could that skew my assumption of it being the card?
 
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Yes! It could either be the PSU or GPU! Lend a GPU from a friend, or use your PSU, or GPU in another system! Hopefully the card is fine and your PSU may need a change! What is the PSU's model?
 
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I'm beginning to think it is not the GPU. I found another GPU in my closet and tested it. I get beeps now that sound different. 1 short, then another beep that is hard to discern because it is still short but sounds like 1 continuous beep of 2 beeps, if that makes sense. There is almost no separation, but I can slightly hear it. Still no video. PSU is a 750w Rosewill. I don't have another to test.
 
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This is difficult to test. I put the spare video card in the pcie slot and at first it wouldn't work, but I wiggled it around while it was in the slot and powered, and I got video. It wasn't seated very well, but I got video with that as apposed to a good seating. I tested the spare card in the 2nd pcie slot and it worked immediately. The only thing is I can't test my questionable main card in that other slot because it won't fit. Even if I gut it and lay it out on my desk, there are pins in the way (power button and such). I would damage them because the card is so bulky. Are PC shops or places like Bestbuy willing to test a video card or will they charge a butt load?
 
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They do tend to manipulate the customer's need, I personally never give anything regarding the PC to anyone, if i can do it myself! As i understood, the pci-e malfunctioned.. I have seen this before even in my motherboard! The first one won't work properly, but the second does its job! So just place the video card on the second, or test with another GPU the first one to be sure!
 
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Sucks man, we all have to face this sooner or later.. Do you still have warranty?
 
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The warranty was a 2 year. I purchased it in August of 2013 unfortunately. The weird thing is that most monitors have a floating message on the screen if there is no video source, usually says 'no signal'. When I plug in HDMI or Dport to the video card that message goes away, so there seems to be some kind of signal coming from it to the monitor but no image no matter what. No post, nothing.
 
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Yes ofcourse! The gpu does try to send a signal, and the monitor understands it, but due to the malfunctioning you get no video at all!
 
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