Problem with video card.

[taylor.sangrey]

I wanted to just state before people suggest to reset CMOS, try the card in another PC, check PSU, reseat RAM, etc... I already did all that/this is new hardware.

 

The story starts that my sister's husband wanted me to update/fix up/clean up his old gaming PC from like 2008. Anyhow, all the hardware worked fine, it was just super dusty. Neither of them remember the password to the machine which at the time was running Windows XP so I couldn't see if the PC still held up to the standards of modern games at a decent frame rate and performance, but since I was locked out that would be hard... So I removed the card and put it into my personal PC in which it worked fine and I even played a game of CS:GO.

 

Later on: I put the GPU into the old PC and start it up, install windows 7, and everything is going fine and the install finishes. HOWEVER, at the end it said it was updating registry settings and then adjusting video settings. After that, the screen went black for a good 15 minutes until I turned off the machine. After that I rebooted and the damn thing wouldn't turn on; it just starts and doesn't boot an OS with no display (not even a bios splash) and all the fans are running at the highest RPM. I tried everything as stated above, my graphics card from my personal PC works fine (flawlessly even) in this old PC, but the one with the problem refuses to in either. Which would mean neither PC has hardware problems besides this stupid GPU.

 

Sidenote; it is a EVGA GTS 8800 512Mb

[Windows7ge]

So you tried putting the old GPU into a new computer after the system refused to restart and it didn't work? Sounds to me like the registry changes or video alterations bricked the video card. If putting the old card in a new computer right now doesn't work I think you need a new one.

[taylor.sangrey]

52 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

So you tried putting the old GPU into a new computer after the system refused to restart and it didn't work? Sounds to me like the registry changes or video alterations bricked the video card. If putting the old card in a new computer right now doesn't work I think you need a new one.

Do you think that would seriously brick a card?  Also, doesn't bother me much. It's a bad card anyway.

 

However, if fixable I wouldn't mind.

[Windows7ge]

Just now, taylor.sangrey said:

Do you think that would seriously brick a card?  Also, doesn't bother me much. It's a bad card anyway.

I do think it's possible but before you go out and spend money try putting it inside your machine again. If it boots then it's a software issue with the old machine. The registry changes and video changes, was this Windows doing or were you installing NVIDIA's drivers?

[taylor.sangrey]

25 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

I do think it's possible but before you go out and spend money try putting it inside your machine again. If it boots then it's a software issue with the old machine. The registry changes and video changes, was this Windows doing or were you installing NVIDIA's drivers?

Just windows on the final part of installation.

[Windows7ge]

10 minutes ago, taylor.sangrey said:

Just windows on the final part of installation.

Just for testing purposes do you have another video card you could put in it to see if it'll boot up? Or better yet does it support on board video and just plug it in the back? See if you get output then.

[taylor.sangrey]

8 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

Just for testing purposes do you have another video card you could put in it to see if it'll boot up? Or better yet does it support on board video and just plug it in the back? See if you get output then.

No onboard video. I already tried my personal GPU in the old PC ans it works fine.

[Windows7ge]

3 hours ago, taylor.sangrey said:

No onboard video. I already tried my personal GPU in the old PC ans it works fine.

I might be jumping the gun when I stated you tried putting the old GPU in your personal rig after this issue occurred. If it works try re-installing XP. If you have Windows XP 64-bit that'd be ideal but 32-bit will suffice. If this results in the same unresponsive machine...I'm not sure what's causing it. I'd have to be in front of the system to have any shot of identifying other variables that I don't know of while remote.

[Windows7ge]

3 hours ago, taylor.sangrey said:

No onboard video. I already tried my personal GPU in the old PC ans it works fine.

I might be jumping the gun when I stated you tried putting the old GPU in your personal rig after this issue occurred. If it works try re-installing XP. If you have Windows XP 64-bit that'd be ideal but 32-bit will suffice. If this results in the same unresponsive machine...I'm not sure what's causing it. I'd have to be in front of the system to have any shot of identifying other variables that I don't know of while remote.

[taylor.sangrey]

On 5/18/2016 at 10:53 AM, Windows7ge said:

I might be jumping the gun when I stated you tried putting the old GPU in your personal rig after this issue occurred. If it works try re-installing XP. If you have Windows XP 64-bit that'd be ideal but 32-bit will suffice. If this results in the same unresponsive machine...I'm not sure what's causing it. I'd have to be in front of the system to have any shot of identifying other variables that I don't know of while remote.

Well I don't think the OS would be a problem if it worked fine in my windows 10 machine and now it doesn't.

[Windows7ge]

On 5/21/2016 at 11:06 AM, taylor.sangrey said:

Well I don't think the OS would be a problem if it worked fine in my windows 10 machine and now it doesn't.

Yeah, if it no longer works in your windows 10 machine it most definitely died.

[taylor.sangrey]

On 5/22/2016 at 0:21 PM, Windows7ge said:

Yeah, if it no longer works in your windows 10 machine it most definitely died.

Then why would the fan and everything spin? Furthermore why would it randomly die?

[Windows7ge]

2 hours ago, taylor.sangrey said:

Then why would the fan and everything spin? Furthermore why would it randomly die?

A GPU fan can still spin despite the card refusing to output video. Like any other computer part it's not all on one big circuit. If it were then yes the fan wouldn't spin while refusing to output video. Just because the circuit in charge of making the fan spin works doesn't mean the circuit in charge of outputting video still works. The best thing I can think of to answer why it spontaneously stopped working is the registry edits or display alterations might have impacted the GPU BIOS somehow but that's just a crapshoot idea of mine. Really you should at least see the BIOS splash screen and if the GPU is non-responsive one Windows starts that'd make more sense to me but if it spontaneously died while doing some initial display setting changes and now does absolutely nothing...I don't have a definitive answer for you.