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Black screen, loud fan, no BSOD on Radeon 6870 HD
Hey guys,
First some background, then info:
Have a friends Desktop PC that he is having me check out, as he said the LAN wouldnt work after re-installing W7 on top, so I had him buy an regular PCI-e adapter and install it, but he said still wouldnt take, so I brought it home and checked it out.
I was able get the LAN working, download from ASUS website, then DL's more drivers and updated. I DL'd the Radeon HD 6870 drivers from Sapphire and installed, after the reboot I logged in and was going to install a couple more drivers and after a few minutes the screen went black, TV monitor said "no signal", tapped on keyboard and nothing, so hit the reboot button. NO BSOD.
After reboot and login, I decided I might as well do a clean install, as there were already 3 .old files, so I went to the first .old file and backed up user's docs, it was taking a bit to move 30 GB so I went to do something else. Came back and screen was at "no signal", took a look at PC and since no lights were flashing I rebooted, but before I did wondered if maybe the Power profile was set to shut screen off after XX minutes, so after reboot check and it was the case, set to 10 minutes, changed to "never" just for testing.
After that I wanted to check the BIOS and see if anything in there needed adjusting, so rebooted to BIOS and checked around, made some changes to the SATAs, from IDE to AHCI, changed a couple others that I cant remember, rebooted and W& hung up, I know due to ahci change, so figured reinstall, and clean install.
Clean install went fine, after changing ahci back to ide, didnt need it. But after installing CCC I got black screen again while trying to install another driver for the system, and then out of blue I hear a loud noise that came from vid card, like the fan was on MAX and blowing out the exhaust, I tried a reboot but heard beeps, so I pressed power button down and turned it off, never heard that before.
I went to my other monitor and rebooted, but just as I clicked to login windows screen went black "no signal", hmm no clue whats causing it. I rebooted again but in safe mode with networking. Sat around a few minutes and bang screen went black "no signal" and fan began blowing out the exhaust just like earlier real hard and loud, then it shut itself off, I kept it off and dont know what could be issue.
I called friend and he told me that while his son was playing games that sometimes the screen would go black as mentioned here, so what could it be, without a BSOD?
Sorry for the long info but wrote as it happened.
HIS PC:
ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200
LITE-ON DVD Burner - Bulk 24X
SAPPHIRE 100314-2SR Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16
Rosewill DESTROYER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower
CORSAIR TX Series CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V