O/T"Puter Problem"
Submitted: Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 18:30
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Flywest
Sorry for the Off topic - bvut without the puter I can only get on here by borrowing someone elses!
Mine has started acting up.
It's only a couple years old and a top of the wazza dual core processor etc etc.
It suddently switched the flat screen off and just makes a 3 beep sound when you turn it on - 0one long beep followed bye 2 short beeps.
I figured that coz the monotors not working maybe it is the graphics card, opened the ox and sorta wiggled the graphics card in its motyherboard slot a little.
Itstarted right up and worked Ok for about 3 hours whence i turned it off.
Next day when I turn it on the same problem, no screen and 3 beeps One long followed by 2 short.
Wiggled the graphics card again - no help this time.
Tried pluging the graphicscard into a spare slot on the mother board, still the same problem.
Does this mean the graphics card is shot?
It's a pretty expensive top of the line ATI Radeon X
Sapphire 1600 pro graphics card.
Not really sure what to try next - the fact it wouldn;t go then it went again now it wont go makes me think it might just be a dry joint or something?
Just curious if the beeps combination means anything and how I would know if it is a motherboard or graphics card fault?
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers
Reply By: Flywest - Friday, Mar 06, 2009 at 18:43
Friday, Mar 06, 2009 at 18:43
Sorry for the delay getting back to everyone.
I id try another monitor and lead, and no change same dead screen and one long 2 short beeps on startup.
I googled the codes frthat graphics card / motherboard and it says that one long 2 short is graphics card!
Just annoyed the cards quit because it was expensive and didn;t do much work (ege play games).
That said theres a lot of dust inside the puter and graphics card heat sink etc, and rhis puter was situated on an offshore island i9n the tropics for 9 months sucking moist salt laden air thru it, so it wouldn't surprise me if the dust and salt havent shorted something on the graphics card.
I'll get a new graphics card and see what difference that makes.
Thanks one and all for your invaluable help.
I miss my PC it has a few gigs of Ram and was very fast compared to this old clunker that I have to sit and drink a coffee while it loads!
Cheers
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