Hi, ive had an ATI Radeon x700 PRO AGP graphics card for over 2 years and had no problems until one day I stoped recieving a signal input. After abunch of tests i find out its my video card and get it replaced by ATI for free, and my pc now works. TODAY IT HAS FRIED AGAIN AND IT APPEARS TEH SCREEN SHOWS DISTORTED DISPLAY THEN goes to NO SIGNAL INPUT like before ... THUS it is a fried video card once again!
My USB 2.0 ports do not work as fast anymore, nor does it say device is pluged into 2.0 port. "Please plug this device into a 2.0 port for faster speeds." IT IS A 2.0 port!
Has my motherboard been fried or my power supply messin up all my hardware?? My PC is a factory Sony Vaio + ATI X700 + Audigy 4
All my hardware aside from my ATI Card and ALL USB ports work fine ...
So what has caused 2 graphics cards and 8 usb ports to stop working in less that 2 month distance. Please help!
Power Surge, Spikes etc. could all be possible reasons why your video is going bad, Invest some money into this, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16842101141 it definetly helps. The other thing, kids now adays try and buy crappy cards and then try to overclock them to be better then what their worth, dont bother doing that if you are, its a waste and if you do want too just get a better video card.
I will try to invest in soemthing along those lines, (ahah i dunno if i mentioned this, but there was a power surge/outage a day b4 this happened :s but it fried the day after, wasnt sure if it was a coinkidink :P
im usin a cheap ass power splitter thingy with surge protection but its fairly old and shitty :P and i wasnt overclockign
Originally posted by porchmasi:I will try to invest in soemthing along those lines, (ahah i dunno if i mentioned this, but there was a power surge/outage a day b4 this happened :s but it fried the day after, wasnt sure if it was a coinkidink :P
im usin a cheap ass power splitter thingy with surge protection but its fairly old and shitty :P and i wasnt overclockign
I have sort of the same problem and it happened after a power outage.
