Video Card Failure

Ranko · 09-09-2008, 08:07 PM

Hi, I am not sure where to post this, but this thread looks like the best place for it.

I built a system last year which did well up until recently. I have an ASUS P4P800S-X board with an AMD X2 4800. The video card was an ATI Saphire 1600, and I installed 2GB of Kingston RAM. Couple of months ago I started getting warnings about the Video Card overheating (no over-clocking was done). I tried ramping down the speed of the card and using less graphics intensive programs. It seemed to have worked, but last week when I started up my computer, I got the 1 long and 3 short beeps. When I first start the system up, it hangs for a bit with a noise coming from the CD combo drive. All the power is on, and the fans are running. Then the beeps come in, and the system seems to start up, but I am not sure since there is no power to the screen (in fact, no signal gets through). At first I thought it was a video card issue, so I replaced the video card with a GeForce 8800 GT; but the same issue appears. Now I am thinking it is a motherboard issue, but I am unsure of this.

Sorry for the long winded explanation, but I wanted to have all points covered. Thanks for you help guys. Much appreciated!

09-09-2008, 08:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ranko Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 9 OS: XP	Video Card Failure Hi, I am not sure where to post this, but this thread looks like the best place for it. I built a system last year which did well up until recently. I have an ASUS P4P800S-X board with an AMD X2 4800. The video card was an ATI Saphire 1600, and I installed 2GB of Kingston RAM. Couple of months ago I started getting warnings about the Video Card overheating (no over-clocking was done). I tried ramping down the speed of the card and using less graphics intensive programs. It seemed to have worked, but last week when I started up my computer, I got the 1 long and 3 short beeps. When I first start the system up, it hangs for a bit with a noise coming from the CD combo drive. All the power is on, and the fans are running. Then the beeps come in, and the system seems to start up, but I am not sure since there is no power to the screen (in fact, no signal gets through). At first I thought it was a video card issue, so I replaced the video card with a GeForce 8800 GT; but the same issue appears. Now I am thinking it is a motherboard issue, but I am unsure of this. Sorry for the long winded explanation, but I wanted to have all points covered. Thanks for you help guys. Much appreciated!