- Feb 10, 2012
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Specs:
Windows 7 32bit home premium
Intel Core i5 650 3.20ghz
8gig installed RAM (3.37 usable - w32bit)
nvidia geforce GT430 GPU (connected to monitor via standard HMDI)
(motherboard: gigabyte GA-H55-UD3H)
While playing Tribes Ascend yesterday, my screen turned black (I don't recall whether it was black display, or turned off) but shortly after my monitor went into standby mode, I didn't think much of it and in a spurt of impatience I powered down my PC by the off switch.
Upon powering up my PC, my monitor displays "no signal" and then goes into standby, so I do the usual reboot on/off/on/off/on/off, nothing, all fans are working (including GPU fan), all lights are on, system appears to power up fine, just no display via the GPU.
At first I figure there was something wrong with the monitor, so I hooked my PC up to my television (Graphics card -> hdmi -> TV)... no signal, concluding my monitor is fine.
I opened my PC and removed the graphics card giving it a thorough inspection, twist of the fan, searching for any signs of damage, everything appears in order.
So I re-inserted the card, hooked the PC up to the monitor and powered it back up (leaving the case open to see all internals working as intended), I gave the card a little nudge and I got some display (a blurring static screen looking like a piece of modern art), I rebooted the PC and vwallah.. it's working.
I thought it was fixed, so I get back on my PC, display appears fine... 5 minutes later the my monitor goes back into standby... reboot... "no signal", it's happened again.
I fiddle with the card again, can't smell any burning, appears fine fan spinning etc, no signal, and it hasn't worked since.
I stripped down my PC to the very last wire, and cleaned "everything", it's spotless, I cleaned the drives, all mobo sockets, the cr2020 battery, everything, I then left it separated in clean storage overnight.
I rebuilt the machine today, and still the graphics card doesn't display, it is not detected by device manager, nvidia control panel or drivers, it's as though I have no graphics card in the machine.
I'm currently using Intel integrated graphics (via HDMI cable), crappy resolution and no games
I haven't tried the card via DVI, so it could be a HDMI port fault, no means of testing at the moment, considering the fan on the card still works it's a possibility, but unlikely I fear the card has gone kaput, or even worse the motherboard.
I'm worried this may be a motherboard problem and not a graphics card problem, I do hope it's the graphics card as it's a much simpler problem to fix, either way what's your take on this? hope my wall of text was readable sorry for boring you if I did, really appreciate a few words of expertise.
Ed.
Windows 7 32bit home premium
Intel Core i5 650 3.20ghz
8gig installed RAM (3.37 usable - w32bit)
nvidia geforce GT430 GPU (connected to monitor via standard HMDI)
(motherboard: gigabyte GA-H55-UD3H)
While playing Tribes Ascend yesterday, my screen turned black (I don't recall whether it was black display, or turned off) but shortly after my monitor went into standby mode, I didn't think much of it and in a spurt of impatience I powered down my PC by the off switch.
Upon powering up my PC, my monitor displays "no signal" and then goes into standby, so I do the usual reboot on/off/on/off/on/off, nothing, all fans are working (including GPU fan), all lights are on, system appears to power up fine, just no display via the GPU.
At first I figure there was something wrong with the monitor, so I hooked my PC up to my television (Graphics card -> hdmi -> TV)... no signal, concluding my monitor is fine.
I opened my PC and removed the graphics card giving it a thorough inspection, twist of the fan, searching for any signs of damage, everything appears in order.
So I re-inserted the card, hooked the PC up to the monitor and powered it back up (leaving the case open to see all internals working as intended), I gave the card a little nudge and I got some display (a blurring static screen looking like a piece of modern art), I rebooted the PC and vwallah.. it's working.
I thought it was fixed, so I get back on my PC, display appears fine... 5 minutes later the my monitor goes back into standby... reboot... "no signal", it's happened again.
I fiddle with the card again, can't smell any burning, appears fine fan spinning etc, no signal, and it hasn't worked since.
I stripped down my PC to the very last wire, and cleaned "everything", it's spotless, I cleaned the drives, all mobo sockets, the cr2020 battery, everything, I then left it separated in clean storage overnight.
I rebuilt the machine today, and still the graphics card doesn't display, it is not detected by device manager, nvidia control panel or drivers, it's as though I have no graphics card in the machine.
I'm currently using Intel integrated graphics (via HDMI cable), crappy resolution and no games
I haven't tried the card via DVI, so it could be a HDMI port fault, no means of testing at the moment, considering the fan on the card still works it's a possibility, but unlikely I fear the card has gone kaput, or even worse the motherboard.
I'm worried this may be a motherboard problem and not a graphics card problem, I do hope it's the graphics card as it's a much simpler problem to fix, either way what's your take on this? hope my wall of text was readable sorry for boring you if I did, really appreciate a few words of expertise.
Ed.
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