[fixed, pictures =D] 8800gts failure? (beeps: 1 long 2 short)
w00t! Bought a PC Power and Cooling 750W Silencer - 60 amps on a single +12V rail, crazy power and stability. Ordered Tuesday night, received Thursday afternoon with free UPS shipping. Thumbs up, Newegg! So far so good, everything is fine.
I just love those totally original boxes PC P&C use...
Mah' poor 8800GTS... don't worry, we will be together soon again.
You... you... deceiver! You can never be trusted again!
Everything finally nice and settled...
Stuff seems fine...
My work bench (aka kitchen):
Thanks for all the help =D
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Maybe a few months ago, I bought me a new 8800gts, 320MB, from XFX. It was just a normal 320MB 8800gts, no overclocking, nothing. Previously I had a X850XT.
So, anyways, it was all fine and dandy... However, in some games, I did not see a huge performance increase... I thought to my self... must be CPU limited?
I keep going and having fun, until one day, my comp runs, but the monitor doesn't. Turn it off, re-turn it on, it runs. Didn't take notice of the beeps, other than the fact that it wasn't the normal beep I always get.
Today, I come home from school... and what do you know? Comp runs again, monitor receives no signal. I get 1 long beep and 2 short beeps.
I have concluded this is a video card failure. 1 long beep and 2 short beeps seems to be standard for video card failure, where the BIOS fails to output an error message graphically. Even more so, my monitor didn't receive a signal. It all adds up.
After a few reboots I got it to work - until it froze a few seconds later.
Now, my 8800gts hasn't been overheating. Constant 50-60, sometimes 70 celcius. So it must be some internal error, maybe VRAM.
What are your thoughts? First I'll try my PC with my good old X850XT, see if that works.
Also - could it maybe be a PSU problem? My PSU is an Antec truepowerII, 480W. Maybe it's not juicy enough? I haven't been overclocking. At all. Well, I did, but not since I got my 8800gts. My motherboard is a high-end (or atleast "was" high-end) Foxconn 590SLI. It's showing me FF, which is normal for most things. It seems to get all the way to XP and my account when the GFX fail (in addition to the normal FF), only to further say something about my video card.
According to XFX (I did indeed register with them as they said), I have a lifetime guarentee to a new card as long as I didn't physically torment it. Yeah, I did indeed not physically torment my poor baby.
Ideas, guys?
w00t! Bought a PC Power and Cooling 750W Silencer - 60 amps on a single +12V rail, crazy power and stability. Ordered Tuesday night, received Thursday afternoon with free UPS shipping. Thumbs up, Newegg! So far so good, everything is fine.
I just love those totally original boxes PC P&C use...
Mah' poor 8800GTS... don't worry, we will be together soon again.
You... you... deceiver! You can never be trusted again!
Everything finally nice and settled...
Stuff seems fine...
My work bench (aka kitchen):
Thanks for all the help =D
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Maybe a few months ago, I bought me a new 8800gts, 320MB, from XFX. It was just a normal 320MB 8800gts, no overclocking, nothing. Previously I had a X850XT.
So, anyways, it was all fine and dandy... However, in some games, I did not see a huge performance increase... I thought to my self... must be CPU limited?
I keep going and having fun, until one day, my comp runs, but the monitor doesn't. Turn it off, re-turn it on, it runs. Didn't take notice of the beeps, other than the fact that it wasn't the normal beep I always get.
Today, I come home from school... and what do you know? Comp runs again, monitor receives no signal. I get 1 long beep and 2 short beeps.
I have concluded this is a video card failure. 1 long beep and 2 short beeps seems to be standard for video card failure, where the BIOS fails to output an error message graphically. Even more so, my monitor didn't receive a signal. It all adds up.
After a few reboots I got it to work - until it froze a few seconds later.
Now, my 8800gts hasn't been overheating. Constant 50-60, sometimes 70 celcius. So it must be some internal error, maybe VRAM.
What are your thoughts? First I'll try my PC with my good old X850XT, see if that works.
Also - could it maybe be a PSU problem? My PSU is an Antec truepowerII, 480W. Maybe it's not juicy enough? I haven't been overclocking. At all. Well, I did, but not since I got my 8800gts. My motherboard is a high-end (or atleast "was" high-end) Foxconn 590SLI. It's showing me FF, which is normal for most things. It seems to get all the way to XP and my account when the GFX fail (in addition to the normal FF), only to further say something about my video card.
According to XFX (I did indeed register with them as they said), I have a lifetime guarentee to a new card as long as I didn't physically torment it. Yeah, I did indeed not physically torment my poor baby.
Ideas, guys?
