8800gs fried?

[celopmuh]

I forgot to connect the power supply to the card (8800 gs). After turning on it made a loud beep, and I cut the power to the system right away. Now the card seems to be malfunctioning, shows artifacts (even the first text screen, 'NVBIOS' etc. is garbled). So, is this connected? Did I fry the card or is it just overheated?

 

[jeremyrailton]

never heard of anyone frying anything due to lack of power. you might have a defective card, or you might just need to check your cables to make sure they're plugged all the way in.

 

[celopmuh]

that's good... i was afraid i destroyed the card... anyway I will try to plug it again later, maybe it's defective.
Also, I noticed that 8800 GS is noisy as fsck (well maybe not, but I was used to the onboard 6100 which has no additional cooling at all). From what I heard, 8800 GT unlike the GS actually has fan control, would that make a big difference in noise levels when I'm not running anything GPU-intensive?

 

[San Pedro]

Rivatuner will allow you to control fan speed.

 

[celopmuh]

I thought 8800GS fan is unadjustable, also I see it has 2 pins which would confirm it...

 

[marvelous211]

You probably bought the XFX version without variable fan. This has been mentioned quite a few times if you checked the forums before you bought your card.

As for your problem your card might be defective or you might have handled your bare electronic board without care. You can't damage a card by not hooking up the PCI-E connector.