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Frankwm
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_ 		14. April 2009 @ 15:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
PC was fine last night - this morning no signal to monitor. At boot up (Windows XP Pro), HDD indicator light flashes on, Rom Drive lights flash on, no signal to monitor.

I replaced the Power Supply (had a spare on hand). Same results as above.

I found that the Video Card (Radeon 9800 Pro) cooling fan had completely broken loose from the heat sink. I replaced the broken Video Card Cooler with a Zalman VF700 Cooler (also happened to have that on hand). Same results as above.

I temporarily replaced the HDD with an old one I had (I think it's working OK). Same results as above.

Question: If the Video Card is shot, should the PC still boot to Windows (which it isn't doing) or could the problem be the CPU(AMD Athlon 64 3200+) or the Motherboard?
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ddp
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_ 		14. April 2009 @ 15:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
try another videocard even a lowly pci videocard will still work. any beeps from motherboard speaker? try clearing the cmos battery as have found that to work sometimes to kickstart a stubborn system.
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Frankwm
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_ 		14. April 2009 @ 20:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ddp:
 try another videocard even a lowly pci videocard will still work. any beeps from motherboard speaker? try clearing the cmos battery as have found that to work sometimes to kickstart a stubborn system.

Thanks ddp. Looks like the Vid Card is fried. Ah well.
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