Solve : I think my video card is dying.?

1.	Solve : I think my video card is dying.?
Answer» Or maybe it's my motherboard. I would much rather have it be the former...anyway, my computer is having issues. I went onto google chrome and my computer froze. The screen went black, MONITOR went into power-save mode (which happens when it doesn't get a signal from the video card), and my keyboard and mouse shut off. So i did a cold restart, and i got a black screen, but at the top left it listed my video card: X1950Pro256m or something to that nature. My first guess: video card took a crap. So, i restarted again, got into windows, and tried again. Same thing. My motherboard beeps 5 times when i boot up the pc, but there is sixth beep that occurs immediately after the second beep (so it's like beep..beep(beep)..beep..beep..beep). I don't know what it means, but when i push the restart button on the front of my case, i hear one beep. So i put two and two together, and figured that that is the phantom sixth beep i hear upon booting. anyway, knowing a successful restart would trigger a single beep, i waited for it. didn't hear it, and my computer didn't restart. tried again, and this time, it took a good 15 seconds before the beep occurred, and during which time, the monitor was in power-save mode (i'm wondering if that individual beep indicates my video card is working). after the beep, it got to my mobo's splash screen, and the screen froze, but i could still pick my operating system from the list (once highlighted, it showed up over the splash screen, which didn't go away). with the splash screen still unmoving, in the top left i saw 'starting up...' and then it froze again. so, i removed the dvi cable from the left PORT on the card, put it in the right port, and voila! it WORKS fine. so the question is: video card, motherboard, or less likely but still possible, power supply?sir try to generally clean your MOTHERBOARDS slot i think theres a lot of dust on it... if you have air compressor much better... and also clean the slots of your ram and video card using eraser... hope it can help...Quote from: nehemaih on September 12, 2008, 06:19:21 AM if you have air compressor much better I think he means to used a can of compressed air. The kind that you can buy at most electronic stores or wal-mart. Never use an air compressor as you can damage the compentslol yeah i figured as much. i planned on replacing the card soon anyway, so it's not really a big deal. once i replace it i'll be able to clean the board and what not.Was the system working before you tried using google chrome?it was doing something like this for a few weeks before i used google chrome, but it never actually restarted my system and caused it to FAIL to boot. btw i've had the dvi cable plugged into the other dvi port on the card, and everything is running smooth as silk. i'm guessing it's my card, but it'll be replaced soon anyway.Quote from: Aegis on September 24, 2008, 02:29:03 AM Was the system working before you tried using google chrome? Also, do you find that your bank account has suddenly been drained? Have you acquired random credit card charges for viewing AdSense Ads? ...no, but that's very unnerving, lolI can second the motherboard thing, I just went through the same thing and had to replace mine.

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Or maybe it's my motherboard. I would much rather have it be the former...anyway, my computer is having issues. I went onto google chrome and my computer froze. The screen went black, MONITOR went into power-save mode (which happens when it doesn't get a signal from the video card), and my keyboard and mouse shut off. So i did a cold restart, and i got a black screen, but at the top left it listed my video card: X1950Pro256m or something to that nature. My first guess: video card took a crap. So, i restarted again, got into windows, and tried again. Same thing. My motherboard beeps 5 times when i boot up the pc, but there is sixth beep that occurs immediately after the second beep (so it's like beep..beep(beep)..beep..beep..beep). I don't know what it means, but when i push the restart button on the front of my case, i hear one beep. So i put two and two together, and figured that that is the phantom sixth beep i hear upon booting. anyway, knowing a successful restart would trigger a single beep, i waited for it. didn't hear it, and my computer didn't restart. tried again, and this time, it took a good 15 seconds before the beep occurred, and during which time, the monitor was in power-save mode (i'm wondering if that individual beep indicates my video card is working). after the beep, it got to my mobo's splash screen, and the screen froze, but i could still pick my operating system from the list (once highlighted, it showed up over the splash screen, which didn't go away). with the splash screen still unmoving, in the top left i saw 'starting up...' and then it froze again. so, i removed the dvi cable from the left PORT on the card, put it in the right port, and voila! it WORKS fine. so the question is: video card, motherboard, or less likely but still possible, power supply?sir try to generally clean your MOTHERBOARDS slot i think theres a lot of dust on it... if you have air compressor much better... and also clean the slots of your ram and video card using eraser... hope it can help...Quote from: nehemaih on September 12, 2008, 06:19:21 AM

if you have air compressor much better

I think he means to used a can of compressed air. The kind that you can buy at most electronic stores or wal-mart. Never use an air compressor as you can damage the compentslol yeah i figured as much. i planned on replacing the card soon anyway, so it's not really a big deal. once i replace it i'll be able to clean the board and what not.Was the system working before you tried using google chrome?it was doing something like this for a few weeks before i used google chrome, but it never actually restarted my system and caused it to FAIL to boot. btw i've had the dvi cable plugged into the other dvi port on the card, and everything is running smooth as silk. i'm guessing it's my card, but it'll be replaced soon anyway.Quote from: Aegis on September 24, 2008, 02:29:03 AM

Was the system working before you tried using google chrome?

Also, do you find that your bank account has suddenly been drained? Have you acquired random credit card charges for viewing AdSense Ads?

...no, but that's very unnerving, lolI can second the motherboard thing, I just went through the same thing and had to replace mine.

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