Who died... the video card, or the monitor?

[EvilGenius]

Lol that's awesome - i've heard of people cooking 'em in ovens to re-melt the solder under the BGA chips (GPU and/or Ram)

it's funny how one tiny thing going wrong can break a card :P

[TheEconomist]

I kept the card in the crawl space (where your insulation is) as it was the only thing I had at the time that could serve as my own personal closet that no one would bother.

Maybe it gets hot enough in there to fix cards

[dustinbrowder]

It was the monitor 100% sure. I once had the same exact problem and as you I thought the card was dead. Brought my card to have it repaired and the sons of bitches broke the card by pulling one of its pins that the FX5600 had.
I noticed that but with no way to prove it, my gpu was there because I told them its broken so they said it was broken when i got it there and they offered to sell me a new gpu.

Anyways I refused returned home and started up the PC (had an onboard graphic card) and nothing. So it ended up being the monitor and after repairing it it all worked great, but I was left with broken graphic card and had to purchase a new one.

[EvilGenius]

It was the monitor 100% sure. I once had the same exact problem and as you I thought the card was dead. Brought my card to have it repaired and the sons of bitches broke the card by pulling one of its pins that the FX5600 had.
I noticed that but with no way to prove it, my gpu was there because I told them its broken so they said it was broken when i got it there and they offered to sell me a new gpu.

Anyways I refused returned home and started up the PC (had an onboard graphic card) and nothing. So it ended up being the monitor and after repairing it it all worked great, but I was left with broken graphic card and had to purchase a new one.

lol - that sucks. Well, my dell monitor is working as well as the video card - but now i'm counting on one of them to die eventually. At least they gave me some warining :P

[TheEconomist]

Stop giving tech advice, please dustin. Last time you said "100% sure" quite a few people came in and proved otherwise.

Besides, how do you know the graphics card wasn't the original problem? From what I could discern from your post, it seems like paranoia. It could very well have been the graphics card ... and then the monitor.

The symptoms he has described are textbook examples of artifacting (i.e. graphics card problems) so, even if your story were true, it's not "100% sure".

So, please, stop, just stop.

[dustinbrowder]

Stop giving tech advice, please dustin. Last time you said "100% sure" quite a few people came in and proved otherwise.

Besides, how do you know the graphics card wasn't the original problem? From what I could discern from your post, it seems like paranoia. It could very well have been the graphics card ... and then the monitor.

The symptoms he has described are textbook examples of artifacting (i.e. graphics card problems) so, even if your story were true, it's not "100% sure".

So, please, stop, just stop.

Because the same thing happened to me, as described in my above post.
I said I'm 100% sure, doesn't mean I'm necessarily right.