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| Thread ID: 124510 | 2012-04-30 08:13:00 | Changing Graphics gives no picture | Gobe1 (6290) | Press F1 |
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| 1272928 | 2012-04-30 08:13:00 | HI I have a friend with a older DDR2 pc that he has been having trouble with it locking up He is getting no BSOD and event viewer is not giving any help He had some driver probs with the graphics resetting to basic mode because of a driver problem but that has gone away Graphics card has been tested (9800GT) by a shop. No faults Mem test done. No faults HDD tested. No faults The MB is a gigabyte GA X38 DS5 CPU Core2Quad PSU 1000w When any other graphics card is inserted in the MB no picture is shown. It is not posting. Put the 9800 back in and it goes again. ?? the bios has been reset several times. Any ideas why it would do that? Cheers Gobe1 |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1272929 | 2012-04-30 10:20:00 | Remnants of previous driver? Maybe leftovers in the Registry. I've found using Revo when uninstalling graphics drivers often digs up entries left behind. | PPp (9511) | ||
| 1272930 | 2012-04-30 11:00:00 | if it's not even posting then it's something else. Have you got all the extra 4, 6 or 8 power plugs shoved in where necessary? Is the PSU a high enough wattage to supply it? | 8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1272931 | 2012-04-30 22:25:00 | Yep everything is plugged in right and 1000w PSU Heres what he did lastnight: "So I gutted my pc and put PSU / Ram / Vid Card into my other PC. it rebooted perfectly. So its just a waiting game now to see what it will do over a couple weeks." the only part not transferred to the different case was the MB Will post again if he still has problems but at this stage it looks like the MB |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1272932 | 2012-04-30 22:40:00 | If it does prove to be the motherboard and he want's to try and get it working try resetting the BIOS and connecting just the minimum hardware to get it going, then if that works add things one at a time rather than just throwing the whole machine back to gether in one go. Also maybe have a look for bulging or dodgy looking capacitors on the motherboard or any other physical signs of deterioration. They are a common fault, although we seem to be blaming them a little less lately (I swear someone used to say it was the capacitors fault for every single problem posted here at one stage). |
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| 1272933 | 2012-05-01 00:42:00 | Yeah i agree. In my IT time i have never come across a bad capacitor (visibly that is) | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1272934 | 2012-05-04 04:16:00 | Further to that, check the capacitors on the video card itself. Sometimes it is easy to forget this and keep checking all the other stuff. I remember way back in PC world magazine someone had similar issues to this, spent a long time trying to fix their system, before finding the capacitors on the video card were faulty |
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| 1272935 | 2012-05-18 23:18:00 | How do you fix a bad capacitor? | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1272936 | 2012-05-18 23:31:00 | What sort of "other graphic cards" were you trying with it. Reason for asking is that once I had a motherboard (clients) that only worked on Nvidia cards and whenever I tried an ATi I would get nothing, power on, but not even beep and nothing on screen. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1272937 | 2012-05-19 00:13:00 | How do you fix a bad capacitor? Replace it with one of similar type, size, voltage, temperature and ripple current rating. You will need solder sucker, average to good hand skills, good lighting, temperature controlled soldering iron. |
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