Please help me out guys.

[steveomac]

I apologize if this is in the wrong category guys, I really need some help. My problem started about
a month ago when my 3870x2 started a grinding noise, my pc would also start for a few seconds, power down and then
come back on again. Dreading the evenable death of my little card ,i continued in hope that i could buy a new card before
it happend. So about 3 weeks ago i went to switch my pc on , double boot as usual .. ok . no signal on my monitor which was accompained
by a wierd sound from my gpu. So i thought to my self ok time to get a new card.

due to me losing my job and finding that my dog had kidney disease(vet bills $$$)It took me about 3 weeks to scrap together 13 pound
and grab myself a radeon x600, only to switch it with my 3870x2 and find that it's not my gpu.

So as it stand guys im broke and worse off, could someone please give me any info on what it could be.If i could get it up and going
again it would be amazing guys it could really help me get back on my feet.Thank you in advance for any answers. steve

 

[Madcatatlas]

Inevitable death of your little card.


maybe you should clean some dust off your card and make sure the fan is spinning?..

 

[Transfusion]

You could always go the bake your GPU route if you have nothing to lose:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/293183-33-baking-graphics-card-oven

 

[Avalon]

idk about the grinding noise but if you've already tried two different GPUs with the same results, I'd try unplugging all your non essentials like hard drives, cd drives, extra add in cards, and all but one stick of memory. See if that powers up. If you had an overclock previously, you could also try resetting your BIOS by pulling the BIOS battery.

 

[TemjinGold]

Sounds like a power issue. Is your wiring shorting something out when you try to start? If that was the case and you've been starting the machine over and over with that, you may have fried your system...