My video card had died during normal window operation... Anyway to revive it?

GenerationYscorpio

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My Visiontek video card just died... It didnt died during an intense gaming rather at the desktop normal computing activity. The card is Geforce2 GTS I know its kinda old, and I did overclock the ram and only the ram, yet the computer wont even post now.
The computer motherboard Asus A7v133a now produces 1 long beep and 3 short beep sound.
I have 630 rams
Windows XP

What are some methods I can do to revive it, and I will never o/c this card again given this strong protest it has showned.
 

Maggotry

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The card is dead.

I bought a new Inno3D GF4 4200 for my brother-in-law a few months ago. Installed it on that same mobo (A7V133). I got that same beep code. Took the card back to the store and swapped it for another one. The 2nd card ran fine. Get a new card and stop oc'ing.
 

GenerationYscorpio

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Thanks for the great link, and I have read them all and yep it is dead...

I am going to buy a radeon 9500pro after I get home from work.
 

GenerationYscorpio

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Ironically, this is my 2nd Geforce2 GTS card that died on me since august 2000. I guess these incidents have halted all my interests on any future nvidia cards. I was actually going to wait and see how powerful the nv35 are at 5-15-03, guess now the wait is over.
What also makes me an unhappy nvidia owner is that both card died without warning, I didnt see any artifacts or any function anomaly for both card, and just couple days ago I was actually praise the high quality of visiontek card, and actually went to their web site and took a look at their radeon offering. Guess thats gone too.