8800GTX broken?

[Philippart]

My Sparkle 8800GTX worked fine for over a year, now it doesn't send a signal to my monitor. I've tested the card on 3 different mainboards, 2 different monitors and 2 different PSUs.
Any ideas? Or does anyone know how RMA works for Sparkle?

 

[Hauk]

Any signal at POST? Goes away as Windows loads? If yes, are you using a DVI cable and current Forceware drivers? I'll post some info if yes to all.

If no to all the above, esp no signal at POST, check and recheck connections, confirm vid cable works with another card in mentioned systems, get angry, and check into warranty.

 

[Philippart]

lol, I'm already angry ^^

No, no signal at all, not even the BIOS POST. The mainboards (which work for sure) don't even make a blip sound. However if I don't connect the PSU to the graphics card, the graphics card makes a blip sound.

 

[Hauk]

Confirm another vid card works in system(s)? Other than that, with troubleshooting you've done, no vid at POST, looks like it died. That suks, have not read of many flat out failing.

 

[Philippart]

yes, a good old pci geforce 4 works perfectly! I hope Sparkle will RMA it for me, I couldn't even find a support section on their website ...