I need a little help with a video card problem.
The other night I was doing my usual thing screwin around on my computer and what not. Then I turned my chair away from my computer to play some Halo 2. After one of the games I turned back around to type something about the game to a friend online when I noticed my computer was no longer on. This was odd since I didnt turn it off. I looked down at the case and a bunch of lights were flashing. I tried to turn it back on but nothing happened. I had to power off the power supply in order to get the lights to stop flashing.
I then attempted to boot the machine back up but nothing happened, just a whole lot of beeps from the bios. So, after looking around a bit I found out that those amount of beeps had something to do with video memory failure. I removed the video card (9800 Pro 128mb) and plugged in an old Ati 7000 series I found in my closet. The computer then booted up just fine.
I put the 9800 back in just to make sure and i got the errors again.
So my question is, what exactly is wrong with my card? Is there anything I can do to fix it? I bought it around this time last year for $250, i'd really like to not have wasted that much money on something. I even bought some big ass cooling unit for the card just to give it extra protection from over heating or anything like that.
The other night I was doing my usual thing screwin around on my computer and what not. Then I turned my chair away from my computer to play some Halo 2. After one of the games I turned back around to type something about the game to a friend online when I noticed my computer was no longer on. This was odd since I didnt turn it off. I looked down at the case and a bunch of lights were flashing. I tried to turn it back on but nothing happened. I had to power off the power supply in order to get the lights to stop flashing.
I then attempted to boot the machine back up but nothing happened, just a whole lot of beeps from the bios. So, after looking around a bit I found out that those amount of beeps had something to do with video memory failure. I removed the video card (9800 Pro 128mb) and plugged in an old Ati 7000 series I found in my closet. The computer then booted up just fine.
I put the 9800 back in just to make sure and i got the errors again.
So my question is, what exactly is wrong with my card? Is there anything I can do to fix it? I bought it around this time last year for $250, i'd really like to not have wasted that much money on something. I even bought some big ass cooling unit for the card just to give it extra protection from over heating or anything like that.
