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apt.pupil
04-28-2011, 11:20 AM
just got home from 2 weeks of work out of state. Beofre I left, I shut down my pc and all power in my room. I went to boot my pc up to listen to nova and my pc is broken. not HAPPY jan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2akt3P8ltLM

Now I have to spend time diagnosing my pc tomorrow after I have unpacked. but right now I am gonna forget about it and go out and drink... you know... socialising?
Feloidea
04-28-2011, 11:24 AM
Check for deadly australian living stuff first. Maybe some spider killed your PC.
apt.pupil
04-28-2011, 11:29 AM
theres plenty of webs in there since I wanst able to maintain it for 2 weeks, and my power button is broken, so I jerry- rigged my own power switch to it.

it switches on, starts to boot, but then gives me a hardware failure indicator. I cant visually check it since my videocard doesnt seem to be working.

the whole rig is just over 2 years old, so I wouldn't be surprised if it is something like my video card that failed
inAbag
04-28-2011, 11:57 AM
Why do you keep pouring the misery of your life into these forums? Srsly...
Feloidea
04-28-2011, 12:03 PM
Why do you keep pouring the misery of your life into these forums? Srsly...

Maybe becuase he knows we feed on others' misery and he thus pays us tribute as he's supposed to?
Just a wild guess ...
apt.pupil
04-28-2011, 12:14 PM
Maybe becuase he knows we feed on others' misery and he thus pays us tribute as he's supposed to?
Just a wild guess ...

this. plus its not a misery. im still online, aren't I?

but replacing the borked part is gonna be a pain- Once I find it. with no display Its gonna be hard
RedAlert2008
04-28-2011, 12:25 PM
Welcome back apt, and HA!
apt.pupil
04-28-2011, 03:33 PM
well now I managed to get it to apparently boot in a stable condition, but the videocard appears to be fried. Fire Truck!
CNCGeek101
04-28-2011, 03:44 PM
When you start replacing the video card make sure no matter if it's NVIDIA or AMD that the card you get has it's GPU wafer die correctly mounted or you will be asking for an immediate RMA. I went through 2 MSI 560GTX-Ti cards and my dad went through 2 AMD 6970 cards all because the GPU die wasn't seated correctly and the cards ended up shortening themselves out.

Watch out for the latest cards when you get to picking one.
apt.pupil
04-28-2011, 10:37 PM
my pc would choke on the awesomeness of a high end card. its loaded with a humble 4850 that has lasted 2 years of me abusing it through overclocking
Gas0lin3
04-29-2011, 01:35 AM
When you start replacing the video card make sure no matter if it's NVIDIA or AMD that the card you get has it's GPU wafer die correctly mounted or you will be asking for an immediate RMA. I went through 2 MSI 560GTX-Ti cards and my dad went through 2 AMD 6970 cards all because the GPU die wasn't seated correctly and the cards ended up shortening themselves out.

Watch out for the latest cards when you get to picking one.
lol how is that even possible?
Kermanit
04-29-2011, 01:48 AM
Easy ya have two Newfies build it
apt.pupil
04-29-2011, 02:22 AM
haha. 15 minutes of looking online to my local pc part warehouse has given me my next PC build, and well under my budget too

http://www.commandandconquer.com/forums/showthread.php?1407-my-next-PC-build
RedAlert2008
04-29-2011, 09:15 AM
haha. 15 minutes of looking online to my local pc part warehouse has given me my next PC build, and well under my budget too

http://www.commandandconquer.com/forums/showthread.php?1407-my-next-PC-build

w00t these forums are like his FB page.......And this forum is updating as Apts Status update......I swear Apt you update the forums more than you update your FB page.....come on dude update your FB so me and kerm can spam you.
CNCGeek101
04-30-2011, 05:03 PM
lol how is that even possible?

Yes it's possible. They're wide ranging complaints for NVIDIA and AMD products not being produced up to par. MSI, HIS and XFX had to recall their first revisions of the 6970 cards due to lack of thermal paste on the chip and the cooling unit was not on correctly exposing some key components. Other AMD products had similar stuff adjusted but it was done silently. For NVIDIA, MSI, Gigabyte, EVGA and a few others had similar problems with the 560 GTX Ti, 570, and 580 cards. If the GPU die is not correctly mounted on any GPU then you risk shorting out the cards.