Dont you love it when components fail!

[lonegeek]

I was cleaning my room, accidentally flipped power switch on power strip that pc was plugged into...Some weird surge happend and my video card is now...toast. If i have it in the pc..it wont even boot, or i dont think it does...but theres no video to know for sure .... As far as i know..every thing else is fine....I hope! I'd hate to have to drop another 75 for a pvr 150. I'm already dropping 40 for a nvidia 6200 (should this perform decent ?)...

zach

[stefan]

I thought those stories were just that... stories. Hope you'll fix it without too muxh fuzz. I think that 6200 will do quite fine.

[rowle1jt]

I used to run an FX5200... just recently got to a 6150. (onboard)

[abcdef123]

Try resetting your bios, don't ask me why it might work but it has worked for me with the same problem. Just take out the battery for a minute and put it back and see what happens, can't hurt to try. Good luck.

[HtV]

Try resetting your bios, don't ask me why it might work but it has worked for me with the same problem. Just take out the battery for a minute and put it back and see what happens, can't hurt to try. Good luck.

Sounds a bit like the "hard atx reset" (I think it's called). Take out the powercord and then press the powerbutton for about 30 secs. It empties the capacitators I think. Worked for me once.

[lonegeek]

no..i tried to reset bios..i took the card out for a while..put it in..nothing... I just ordered a new card, and a better one at that

[soccerdad]

I had my video card go strange on me once. Fortunately I have VNC on my machines and was able to "see" that machine. I had to reset the video defaults up and it worked great. I was already looking for a new card when I remembered I had VNC.

[reven]

try kicking it, always works for me....

[zed]

Or a bigger hammer...

[doggyfromplanetwoof]

Not sure why you think its the video card if you had a power surge, it would be the PSU.