New Cruncher Up & Bam Video Card dies :(

[Overkiller]

Well today has been a very productive day.

I set up a wired + wireless home network, brought my 1700+ sytem online, &etc...

Of course the Radeon 64MB DDR Vivo that has served me so well through 2 systems decides to die on my 1700+ rig (a secondary-main family system)...i wish i could just toss in a $20 video card and call it done but as this will be used by the rest of my family members i need something along the lines of a 9600 PRo on it

Need i say DASM!!! Actaully i am sitting here typing on that pc with my 9700 PRo in it...testing stability and such. Sigh, i guess i might as well o/c it to its max and then power it down till i get that video card

OH well...was excited about adding a cruncher but bam...yet another expense crops up!

Will keep you all posted

 

[TofBnT]

Sorry to hear about the loss!

 

[winr]

A moment of silence........

Bummer, sounds like my luck.

........but!!!!!, you get a better card

 

[PraetorianGuards]

hehe, there you go winr. A new card sound good

But I feel for ya Overkiller, I've had a Radeon 64 die on me and it cost $250 to replace it (alright, that was over two years ago and it was an excuse to get a GF3 ehhe).

 

[Assimilator1]

Damn! ,funny you mention a vid card dieing ,my mothers PC had been playing up on her to the point where it was un-useable ,sometimes it would boot but it never got to windows.Turned out the G400 she had in it had gone very flakey ,works fine now with a GTS2 in it (that's 1 rig back up for TA).1st vid card I've had die on me in 4yrs of messing with PCs!

 

[Overkiller]

i loved that radeon

 

[Mitzi]

Originally posted by: Overkiller
i loved that radeon

Funny how we get so attached to computer hardware...

My trusty old Matrox G400 which my mate is still using, my faithful Phillips 8x CD writer which died a few weeks back, my Soundblaster AWE64 which is still running strong in my other system..my Supermicro BX board with PIII 850 which my soon-to-be-father-in-law has adopted...

I grew real attached to those parts!

 

[BlackMountainCow]

R.I.P.

 

[Overkiller]

Well i'm going to o/c this bastard and see what its made out of. My production will be 0 (or close to taht) until i get a new video card ...right now the 9700 pro is in this 1700+ box..which means that my P42.8 is offline :|...along with my 1.2 athlon...

let us pray:

Bill gates, who art in redmond,
send me a video card, or forever
hold thine Wus...

 

[dmcowen674]

You know I'm curious on the reason for such Video card failures. If as many CPU's dies as GPU's we'd be screaming.
Is it the Memory that died on the board, a cap goes bad or the main chip???

 

[Overkiller]

I will have to look into that...curious. I've had a 8500 die on me (was sold to me faulty :|), this 64 MB ddr, and a 3dfx voodoo 3....hmm...iBut yeah, a lot of GPUS seem to die. Today's GPU's are more complex than CPUs so perhaps this has something to do with current failures. Anand should do an indepth study

 

[Assimilator1]

Hey you should get your money back on that Voodoo!

Dave
No idea ,it would get to windows ok in safe mode ,but try going into windows proper & you'd get a face full of randoom pixels & it would lock up!.Sometimes it failed to boot giving 1 long beep followed by 3 short beeps ,if I recall corectely that means bad video RAM.

 

[BofRA]

Sorry to hear about your loss. I lost one of those cards about two weeks ago. Windows kept popping up errors could not conenct to VPU

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Hey you should get your money back on that Voodoo!

Dave
No idea ,it would get to windows ok in safe mode ,but try going into windows proper & you'd get a face full of randoom pixels & it would lock up!.Sometimes it failed to boot giving 1 long beep followed by 3 short beeps ,if I recall corectely that means bad video RAM.

That certainly a speed issue since in safe mode the video card drops to the lowest speed possible. I have 2 Nvidia cards with same GPU but one has 64mg DDR, the other 128 Meg, I can overclock them up until I get the same kind of random pixels and can lock it up.

 

[Soggysocks]

Check your warrentee.....ATI cards are for the most warrentee'd for 3 years.
I thiught I bought the big one when I switched monitors....hooked a 21" to my rig and burned out a resistor on a Radeon 8500 AIl Graghics card. 3 year warrentee....good thing.

 

[Overkiller]

Well...

All my cards are Retail ATI-made (not some 3rd party manufacturer)...now i'm interested. I should even have the recepit from the purchase(wow..has it been almost 3 years?)...To be honest, i dont Want a 64mB DDR but if they send me another $300 replacement (9700 pro/9800 Non pro territory ) ..i wont complain

 

[InlineFive]

Sorry to hear about your card. Good luck!

 

[Assimilator1]

You'll be lucky!