need help with my vid card....

[plague]

so I was sitting on my computer last night when all of a sudden my monitor shut off. it was kinda hot so i let it cool off and tried it again this morning...nothing. I tried another monitor and still nothing, which leads me to believe its the vid card, because i can still start it up and hear it, just no video. You think I burnt it? The fan still runs on it, too. its a creative 64mb geforce 2, its only a few months old, and i havent overclocked it or anything. hmmmm.......

[Silversinksam]

If you have another computer to test if it is the video card that would help. What was pretty hot the Video card or the monitor? Sounds like the Video card took a dump. :( Im pretty sure Creative has a 3 year warranty on that card, why dont you RMA it back to the vendor you bought it from.

[plague]

i bought it oem, so i dunno if i have a warranty from creative, but ill check where i got it. it was the monitor that felt hot, but another monitor didnt work either, so i know it isnt that. i can try the vid card on this computer, but i doubt it will work. i also cleard the cmos, because i thought it might have been caused by my raised fsb, which was only 136 mhz, and ive had it to 145 without any pci/agp problems. im just wondering if anyone else has ever had a card suddenly stop, only running it at stock speed..

[plague]

well the vid card works in another computer, but this voodoo 3 does the same thing in that computer. I cleared the cmos, nothing. I reset the jumpers back to stock speed, nothing... Now Im thinking its an agp problem. its driving me crazy, anyone have any ideas??

[brint]

Take you G2, a dry cloth and wipe the cloth over the connecters that goes in to the AGP slot. It worked on two of my friends comps once. Happy hunting

Regards brint

[train22]

Wait a min, you did overclock it, (1.2*1.3) overclocking ur cpu with the FSB means improving ur system and if you maxed ur FSB that could have caused this.

Back me up here people because I am very new and don't know for sure if the GeForce2 is really that weak. (Saying I"m 100% wrong is good too, heh) I don't want to give him bad advice. Can you sepretly overclcok a vid card?

[plague]

thanks for the idea, but it didnt work. It isnt the connectors on the card because my voodoo didnt work either. how would i go about cleaning the agp slot on the mobo??

[train22]

try to fan it?

[plague]

i got in there with a paper towel, but still nothing..... this is driving me crazy...

[plague]

Originally posted by train22
Wait a min, you did overclock it, (1.2*1.3) overclocking ur cpu with the FSB means improving ur system and if you maxed ur FSB that could have caused this.

Back me up here people because I am very new and don't know for sure if the GeForce2 is really that weak. (Saying I"m 100% wrong is good too, heh) I don't want to give him bad advice. Can you sepretly overclcok a vid card?

yes you can seperately overclock a vidcard, and i havent. Im only running my fsb at 136, and ive had it to 145 without agp problems.

[Sonny]

I think I got a similar prob,mine will not boot consistently when I overclocked from 1.1GHz 200FSB to 1.2GHz 266FSB(no signal from the grafix card,bottleneck?). I just backed off,gone back to default, to see if I trashed anything.

1.1ghz 200fsb:((1.2ghz 266fsb for a day)
A-BIT KT7A-RAID(not using the raid)
256MB PC133 SDRAM
GF2MX ASUSV7100

[eobard]

Originally posted by plague
thanks for the idea, but it didnt work. It isnt the connectors on the card because my voodoo didnt work either. how would i go about cleaning the agp slot on the mobo??

Go to radio crap (I can't believe I'm recomending them!) and buy a small can of compressed air. If you've got something lodged in the slot then spraying the compressed air into it should remove it. Keep in mind that when the air comes out of one of those cans it's under a lot of pressure and the air is very cold. Don't spend 5 minutes emptying the whole can onto the agp slot from point blank range, the prolonged temperature drop might damage something. I'm not sure if it will but you should only need a few seconds to clear the slot out so why take the risk.

Good Luck.

[plague]

well, it turns out the monitor was shot. The other monitor i tried first might be shot too (hope not, I just gave it to my girlfriend). i just tried it with yet another and all worked fine. So ViewSonic owes me 1 monitor, mines goin out tomorrow...heh and right now Im on a little 15 incher.

[Da Whip]

I had the exact problem w/ my card. It has to do w/ the 3.3v. to the AGP, between the 1.2 and GF2 the voltage at boot is not enough to fire up the video card. Mine ran great for 2 months, then all of sudden, bang, dead. I ended up replacing the MOBO, CPU and the video card. Still nothing.
I eventually did a 3.3v. mod and it works great. I have to remember the site, when I do I will email you.

[maha_x]

hmmm, at startup all the components take a "surge" of current out of the PSU so if yer PSU is running its 3.3V close to the limit it could fail at startup.

Whats yer PSU rating? And whats its rating for 3.3V? Also what is yer CPU core voltage? At 2.0V yer CPU alone can take up to 30A current (avg) and more on startup (peak). Find out yer PSU ratings for Ampers and Watts. Notice that that 30A is at 2.0V supplied by the MB. The MB takes it out of the 3.3V (Im not sure tought). The wattage for a 1.2Ghz Tbird is 66W max and 59W typical. From this we get 20A for the CPU max current from 3.3V. So yer PSU needs to be able to supply this 20A to the CPU and some more to the GPU. A 235W PSU might have 24A rating for 3.3V which hardly can support both, the GPU and the CPU.

So in short check yer PSU ratings.