9800pro died after stand-by? Also, suggest a replacement plz!

[spronkey]

Here's the story: My radeon 9800pro caused some issues with my older motherboard (VIA chipset), but upon moving to an nforce board with my Athlon64, I've had absolutely no issues with it whatsoever (9800pro that is) for the last year - not even a single VPU reset.

I got back from a LAN party last night, after having played quite a few games with no problems (my card runs cool with an arctic silencer so it wasn't overheating), power up my computer and it runs perfectly, as normal.

Then I went to log out, but accidentally hit stand-by. My screens powered off as per usual for stand-by, but my power light on tower wasn't flashing, and I couldn't wake the computer from stand-by, so I hard reset, only to find my machine won't even POST.

My machine boots fine with my older card (GF4), but I've tried the radeon in my other machine and it gets a long beep followed by three short beeps on POST, which I believe is Video/VRAM problem.

The card physically looks in top shape, no components look burnt, the board is still perfectly flat, no bends or hairline cracks, minimal dust.. :S Showed no signs of dying either!

I'm guessing this card is completely dead (but how!?), but as a long shot - has anyone else had this issue and know of a fix?


Also, can anyone suggest a replacement? I want something faster... can you guys give me some approx. % differences between my 9800pro and:
6600gt
7600gs
X1650 Pro
X800 GTO
X800 Pro
6800GS 128-bit
7600gt

I want something that will run fairly cool without drawing too much power, yet hopefully be 1.5-2x as fast as my 9800pro. Cheers

 

[Hyperlite]

sorry about the card

out of those, i would suggest the 7600GT. if you can hold off till black friday, i would suggest picking up the eVGA one at circuit city for $89.99. :thumbsup:

 

[dguy6789]

I agree, the Geforce 7600GT is the best choice out of the cards you listed. Sorry about your loss.

 

[AndrewL]

Originally posted by: spronkey
Here's the story: My radeon 9800pro caused some issues with my older motherboard (VIA chipset), but upon moving to an nforce board with my Athlon64, I've had absolutely no issues with it whatsoever (9800pro that is) for the last year - not even a single VPU reset.

I got back from a LAN party last night, after having played quite a few games with no problems (my card runs cool with an arctic silencer so it wasn't overheating), power up my computer and it runs perfectly, as normal.

Then I went to log out, but accidentally hit stand-by. My screens powered off as per usual for stand-by, but my power light on tower wasn't flashing, and I couldn't wake the computer from stand-by, so I hard reset, only to find my machine won't even POST.

My machine boots fine with my older card (GF4), but I've tried the radeon in my other machine and it gets a long beep followed by three short beeps on POST, which I believe is Video/VRAM problem.

The card physically looks in top shape, no components look burnt, the board is still perfectly flat, no bends or hairline cracks, minimal dust.. :S Showed no signs of dying either!

I'm guessing this card is completely dead (but how!?), but as a long shot - has anyone else had this issue and know of a fix?


Also, can anyone suggest a replacement? I want something faster... can you guys give me some approx. % differences between my 9800pro and:
6600gt
7600gs
X1650 Pro
X800 GTO
X800 Pro
6800GS 128-bit
7600gt

I want something that will run fairly cool without drawing too much power, yet hopefully be 1.5-2x as fast as my 9800pro. Cheers

I think most of the 9800 pro's produced have reached the end of their lifespan. This is obviously just a theory but the incident you are describing is pretty similar to what happened to a friend of mine's 9800 pro. I dont know if it died after a stand by , but like yours it wont run in any system its put into and any other card will run fine in his system. It also was not physically abused.

I would spend the extra money and either get an x850pro vivo/x850xt or a 7600gt .Supossedly an x1950 pro agp is coming out (or is already out) so you might wanna consider that.

Although If your a patient person and dont mind building a new rig now is a pretty good time to do so.

 

[postmortemIA]

another 9700 /9800 bites the dust!

 

[spronkey]

Bit of a ****** lifespan for a graphics card :S

Only a couple of years old. Even hard drives outlast that. My old geforce2 is still alive and doing just fine after 5 years?

Ah well. I've ordered an XFX 7600GT AGP - was considering going PCIe but really can't afford the downtime of a reformat (would have to change mobo chipsets.. windows doesn't like that!).

Thanks all.