Captain Pooka
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Well guys, I guess I screwed up some how. My video card is dead.
I bought the 4870.. and it worked fine. I'm starting to think building my own computer was a bad idea.
You can see the specs in my signature.
I was playing WoW about ten minutes ago when the screen went green.. I could still see what I was doing but it had a green color to it. I play in Windowed mode so I could see that it wasn't just WoW that was green, but everything... So I shut off my computer right quick and moved my video card to a more open spot. And here's the story on that:
When I got the video card it was HUGE.. I had no idea it took up two slots and went all the way to the back of a full tower I had two x16 slots, one at the head of all the pci slots, and one by the power supply. I had to put it in the one by the power supply in order to have my TV tuner in there, which I use all the time. I was wondering if this was going to be a problem because the 4870 is wide, but half of it is a heat sink with a fan, and the fan was about an inch away from the psu so I figured the air couldn't really vent. I always meant to change it btut I forgot.. until tonight. Anyway -
I moved it and now it just wont work. There are four red lights on the back (or they are red to me, I'm willing to bet they're green when the card works)
When I turn on my computer, much like an old computer, you can hear the fan boot up, then slow down, then go really fast and slow down. Only that was just the 4870, the Tuniq tower and everything were working fine.
How I figured out it was just the card, asside from everything turning green, was oticing the four leds on the back... The gpu fan would go really fast, then not make any noise, then the three out of four lights would blink red, then it would start over with the same thing. (It's like the first two and last LED light that blink).
Any ideas? Did I fry the card? I'm going to take it up to work tomorrow and try it out on those computers.. actually I'm going to try it on this one now. I hope I didn't just waste 250$
And it wont work in either slot.
Thanks!
-Q
Oh yeah.. that fan speeding up and slowing down is almost like it's getting a burst of power, then none.. But everything else works on the computer. And I plugged in both of the 6connectors to the card...
I bought the 4870.. and it worked fine. I'm starting to think building my own computer was a bad idea.
You can see the specs in my signature.
I was playing WoW about ten minutes ago when the screen went green.. I could still see what I was doing but it had a green color to it. I play in Windowed mode so I could see that it wasn't just WoW that was green, but everything... So I shut off my computer right quick and moved my video card to a more open spot. And here's the story on that:
When I got the video card it was HUGE.. I had no idea it took up two slots and went all the way to the back of a full tower I had two x16 slots, one at the head of all the pci slots, and one by the power supply. I had to put it in the one by the power supply in order to have my TV tuner in there, which I use all the time. I was wondering if this was going to be a problem because the 4870 is wide, but half of it is a heat sink with a fan, and the fan was about an inch away from the psu so I figured the air couldn't really vent. I always meant to change it btut I forgot.. until tonight. Anyway -
I moved it and now it just wont work. There are four red lights on the back (or they are red to me, I'm willing to bet they're green when the card works)
When I turn on my computer, much like an old computer, you can hear the fan boot up, then slow down, then go really fast and slow down. Only that was just the 4870, the Tuniq tower and everything were working fine.
How I figured out it was just the card, asside from everything turning green, was oticing the four leds on the back... The gpu fan would go really fast, then not make any noise, then the three out of four lights would blink red, then it would start over with the same thing. (It's like the first two and last LED light that blink).
Any ideas? Did I fry the card? I'm going to take it up to work tomorrow and try it out on those computers.. actually I'm going to try it on this one now. I hope I didn't just waste 250$
And it wont work in either slot.
Thanks!
-Q
Oh yeah.. that fan speeding up and slowing down is almost like it's getting a burst of power, then none.. But everything else works on the computer. And I plugged in both of the 6connectors to the card...