My card died on me

[tigersty1e]

Guys, help me trouble shoot. I'm so heart-broken to see this thing dead.

I was swapping parts from 1 case to another and I may have dropped the card from waist level onto the ground. I didn't hear anything break, but the card does not work at all....

I have a duorb attached to the card, so there is no plug in the fan connector.

Maybe the card was away from the system to long, it thinks there needs to be a fan connector in the card?

I know it's the card because another card works with my system.

 

[Zap]

How did the card land? The "duorb" is pretty heavy, so potentially it could have shifted on the GPU, chipping the edges.

 

[chizow]

Inspect for physical damage for sure, beyond the core, look for missing/loose caps and resistors. Don't look for them on the ground (especially if you have carpet), inspect the card itself and look for traces/sockets that look like they're missing a component. I'd also reset your CMOS also; kind of an old quirk with swapping hardware but I just ran into it again this weekend reapplying AS5 to my CPU. PC would not POST until I cleared CMOS.

 

[Bill Kunert]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
I may have dropped the card from waist level onto the ground.

Don't you remember? With that heavy cooler attached I'd suspect it might have hit a capacitor or choke and tore it loose.