9800 Pro: Sudden death?

[Guest]

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I turned on my computer this morning and voila, nothing at all. Quickly
replacing the card with an older video card I had kicking around solved the
problem.

Is is unusual for a video card to fail this way? In all the years I've been
using computers I've never seen this happen.

RRT

 

[Kent_Diego]

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I would suspect your power supply could be the problem.

 

[Greg]

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Try reseating your card and also make sure the extra power connection is
attached.

"Top Secret" <top@secret.com> wrote in message
news:JpMsd.190869$Np3.7802098@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>I turned on my computer this morning and voila, nothing at all. Quickly
>replacing the card with an older video card I had kicking around solved the
>problem.
>
> Is is unusual for a video card to fail this way? In all the years I've
> been using computers I've never seen this happen.
>
> RRT
>

 

[Guest]

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Of course, to conclusively identify your 9800 as the culprit, you will have
to reinsert it and ensure that the computer again fails to boot.

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"Top Secret" <top@secret.com> wrote in message
news:JpMsd.190869$Np3.7802098@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> I turned on my computer this morning and voila, nothing at all. Quickly
> replacing the card with an older video card I had kicking around solved
the
> problem.
>
> Is is unusual for a video card to fail this way? In all the years I've
been
> using computers I've never seen this happen.
>
> RRT
>
>