video card problem

[Alonelymuffin]

A week ago, I came home and found my computer was making funny fan-grindy noises. I turned it off, and when I tried to turn it back on, it wouldn't. dead power supply. I put in a replacement, but I found out the video card was making the noise, and that it no longer worked. I got a cheap replacement, This one: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814130052

...And plugged it in. No picture. It doesn't send a signal. The cable and the monitor both appear to be fine, as does the rest of the computer, and as far as I can see, the new card is okay. fan works, at least. I don't have another monitor to hook up, and I don't have an adapter for my tv, so I'm quite literally in the dark on what could be the problem. Helpz?

 

[Xsorovan]

So the video card fan was making the noise when you replaced the power supply and no video was going to the screen... Does the monitor do anything when there isn't a computer plugged into it? (Like a self-test or flash a message that there is no source?) IE: Can you confirm that the monitor isn't bad?

Also, is the computer booting? Can you hear it going through post and everything?

 

[Alonelymuffin]

The monitor sez "rgb no input signal" right now,and unplugging the cable makes "input cable unplugged" or something like that hop around the screen, so I'm pretty sure it's not the problem. The computer doesn't make a sound while starting other than the medley of fans, so I wouldn't know if it's booting or not, since that's also par for the course. For what it's worth, all the fans turn on and level out like normal.

 

[Xsorovan]

So when you plug in the monitor and turn the PC on does the popping floating sign disapear? Or stay there?

I want to say that possibly it's the motherboard. I've had my hands on one mobo that was fried when the power supply died. (Something shorted inside and sent more voltage through the mobo than should have and killed some of the connections inside. The parts were fine, but the mobo was in trouble.)

Does the computer not give you beep-codes when it posts? Can you hear (if you get close to them) the hard drives spinning up?

 

[Alonelymuffin]

The monitor waits a second, then displays the "no input signal" message when I turn on the computer.

If I remember right, I muted the beeping in a bios-options-fueled fit of exuberance. As for the hard drives, I couldn't hear anything over the processor and mobo fans (both of which seem to be running normally), and they aren't terribly loud.

;_; I don' wanna replace the mobo, too. my poor, wounded pocketbook...

 

[DigitalCancer]

can you not plug that card in via S-Vid to your TV? Also, watch turn it on, watch your HD status light, if its blinks nice and quick..then its booting fine.

 

[KGB]

Muffin,

First thing, try clearing the CMOS per your MB manual.

 

[Arcex]

Bad PSU means it could have taken the motherboard with it.

Do you have or can you get a cheap PCI (not express) vid card to try out? Could specifically be the PCI Express slot, although it that's the case that sucks. If a standard PCI card works then it's either the PCI Express card or the slot (ie motherboard). If it doesn't work its probably the motherboard but if you can try another monitor it wouldn't hurt just to reduce variables.

And don't turn the beep codes off, they come in really handy at times like this...

 

[KGB]

Again.... try clearing the CMOS before doing anything else.

 

[Alonelymuffin]

CMOS has now been cleared, but nothing's changed. Also, after reading my mobo manual and raking my memory, I remembered it was something else I turned off that was beep-related, so as I understand it, the mobo doesn't think there's anything wrong with itself. as for my HD light, it's steady when I turn on power, flickers a bit when I push the On button, then goes steady again.

I don't have a spare video card, and I don't feel like waiting another week to get one, at least not yet. I did try the new card in the second slot (the board's sli), but nothing changed.

 

[Alonelymuffin]

So, is my motherboard officially fried, or is there another possibility?