Did my 5770 just die? No display, even during POST.

[sygyzy]

Hi,

I bought a 5770 about a year ago and have been using it without issue in my computer. I recently upgraded everything (basically built a new computer) but kept the video card. I have never overclocked it. It's connected to my LCD via a single DVI cable.

Anyway, last night I get into a game of BF3 and after a minute, the screen goes black and the display loses the image. It says NO IMAGE, meaning it's not getting a signal. It also causes my computer to start freezing and eventually it does. I can tell because the sound out of the speakers (music from BF3) starts stuttering. I had a X1900 before and when it started dying (only happened in gaming, never desktop), it would do the same thing - lose signal, stutter.

I shut down the computer and was able to restart (with display) successfully. The second and third time into BF3 caused the same issue. But after that, I was able to play about 30 minutes worth before it crashed again. Now when I boot up, I can hear it POST (beep) and from the sounds of the hard drive I am pretty sure it makes it into Windows. I can't prove it without a display but I've heard my system start up enough to believe this to be true. But still, no signal.

Mind you, the monitor is not getting a signal all the way through. It's not like it dies once Windows starts.

I happen to be adding a lot of new hardware this week so I thought maybe something was conflicting but after you see my changes you'll probably conclude, as I have, that they are probably unrelated

1. I swapped out my Logitech wireless mouse for a G9X
2. I added a Xbox wireless receiver
3. I added (plugged in) a Microsoft Sidewinder joystick.

All three are USB and easily removable.

Has anyone had this issue with a card just dying? This would be my second card that has experienced this.

 

[Arkadrel]

Take card over to a friends house (or random neighbor), use 2 mins convinceing him to allow you to test your GPU in his machine.

Then you ll KNOW and not have to resort to a guessing game.


If the card just died like that... and not in stages, its caused by something like heat frying it.
Maybe you overclocked it alot? but didnt set fan% up aswell? maybe its been 1year since you cleaned the heatsink on your GPU? Something like that could lead to gpu frying dureing gameplay.

But No Display (even dureing POST) could be a bios going to a safe setting (say after PC hard crashed), where primary video card is the Onboad one? (if u have one of these, try setting your monitor to it and booting up, if it is, go into the bios and set primary graphics to discrete card).

But why did the PC crash? heat? power supply? glitch, driver error ect.



Until you test things, you wont know for curtain that it actually died.

Has anyone had this issue with a card just dying? This would be my second card that has experienced this.

Ive never had a GPU die on me.
Ive had instability issues (oc), and overclocked to much = showing glitchy graphics.
Dead GPU? never.

I have had the pc refuseing to show Display even dureing a POST, but like I said, not the GPU's fault, fault lied elsewhere.

The only thing ever to die on me, has been ram, and a Harddrive.

 

[sygyzy]

Thanks for your tips. I mentioned in the OP that I have not overclocked the card at all. I will try it at friend's house to see what's going on. I also will try to change the RAM slots since I read somewhere that might be an issue. The thing is, this is not a new build. I have been using this system, in the same configuration, for the past 4 months without incident.