Ok this is what happened.
I took off the side of my case to look at the inside of my computer. I have to do that once in a while, its fun. Then I was curious about the temperature of the VSA-100's. It was burning hot. You couldn't put your finger on it for more than 3 seconds without it burning you. I figure its about 150-170 F. I wanted to see if I could get the temp a little lower just to have fun. So, I powered down the system, and I grabbed a Delta 80mm 65CFM fan and put it facing the PCI slot for cooling. I turned on the sucker and some dust flew. Then I said, why not take the opportunity to clean the rest of the dust in there. There wasn't a lot of dust. As I was doing it, The fan blade hit my finger and I pulled away, pulling the fan and the plug that was plugged onto the motherboard while the computer was on. Then I restarted. Windows XP loading screen came up, then went black. The computer would start up, because if I turn my sound on I could hear windows, but no picture. I said alright, lets try another PCI slot, maybe I messed that one up or something, trying to deny that the card is messed up. It worked, but as soon as I install the drivers, It messes up. It works on all other PCI slots accept the one with the drivers installed. Then I try to see if the V5 was messed up by trying another card although this was AGP. But AGP is a PCI slot that just runs on another separate bus. It worked, but as soon as I installed the drivers, It didnt work.
I think the motherboard might have been shorted because of removing a power plug while it was on. Or could be the PSU. The harddrive also didn't turn on sometimes, and I would have to play with the power plug to get it to work.
It takes a while from the windows loading screen to actually get to windows when the cards do work. Just some extra info. What do you think?
I took off the side of my case to look at the inside of my computer. I have to do that once in a while, its fun. Then I was curious about the temperature of the VSA-100's. It was burning hot. You couldn't put your finger on it for more than 3 seconds without it burning you. I figure its about 150-170 F. I wanted to see if I could get the temp a little lower just to have fun. So, I powered down the system, and I grabbed a Delta 80mm 65CFM fan and put it facing the PCI slot for cooling. I turned on the sucker and some dust flew. Then I said, why not take the opportunity to clean the rest of the dust in there. There wasn't a lot of dust. As I was doing it, The fan blade hit my finger and I pulled away, pulling the fan and the plug that was plugged onto the motherboard while the computer was on. Then I restarted. Windows XP loading screen came up, then went black. The computer would start up, because if I turn my sound on I could hear windows, but no picture. I said alright, lets try another PCI slot, maybe I messed that one up or something, trying to deny that the card is messed up. It worked, but as soon as I install the drivers, It messes up. It works on all other PCI slots accept the one with the drivers installed. Then I try to see if the V5 was messed up by trying another card although this was AGP. But AGP is a PCI slot that just runs on another separate bus. It worked, but as soon as I installed the drivers, It didnt work.
I think the motherboard might have been shorted because of removing a power plug while it was on. Or could be the PSU. The harddrive also didn't turn on sometimes, and I would have to play with the power plug to get it to work.
It takes a while from the windows loading screen to actually get to windows when the cards do work. Just some extra info. What do you think?
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