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So...I think my graphicscard is fried...

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TRUCKER

THIS IS ONE OF THOSE "HALP ME" THREADS

Yesterday my desktop computer seemed to have switched over to the Sleep mode automatically, when I came back and pressed a button on my keyboard it started with some fan ( I assume it's the graphics cards fan) being on 100 % (It's insanely loud).

I quickly held the shutdown button and turned it off, restarted it and it started with no problems what so ever.

Today I was gone again, came back and hit the button. After trying to restart the card was still at 100 % and my Bios was beeing, 1x long 2x short which is supposedly something like "Graphics card and/or Motherboard fried"...
I didn't even have any games or anything running, it was steam and my browser at most, while I went to the kitched to eat with my mom.

Any of you guys able to tell me "HEY MAN JUST HIT THIS SECRET BUTTON FOR INSTANT FIX AND PROFIT" or know of anything like this?

I have a 5970, which used to cost like 600 $...it's a double GPU beast which is almost double the length of my motherboard and like triple the width of the PCIex slot...it's hard as fuck to remove it

EDIT:
...the computer starts again, most pertrutbatory

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ss9c1

Did you unplug the PC, let it sit for a minute, push power button, turn off PSU [if it has switch], plug it in,turn on PSU and press power button again?

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TRUCKER

While I should have done that, what I did was more of a shut down, wait, turn on, shut off, unplug, wait, turn on, turn off, unplug, wait, post helpcry on steamgifts

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Lezz

well, you can check unplugging your graphic card, and turning on the PC again. if the madness ends, your graphic card is fucked.

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TRUCKER

Updated OP with info regarding difficulties in unplugging it

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rievhardt

remove them all starting from whichever slot you can reach easier.

then...
try without the GPU.
if it opens up w/o problem...
try them all one by one to see which one is the culprit.

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GhostRaceR

1x long, 2x short Indicates a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information
Probably yes, it may be fried. Are there any artefacts on the screen? Like this? If yes, it IS.
And again, do your best and unplug the card. It's the best what you can do now to check where the problem is.

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Closed 11 years ago by TRUCKER.