Motherboard or Video card

Hi .. When I sit at the computer so I got black screen and my three red LEDs on my Powercolor 4890 glow got strange sound from the data with .. Now to my question huh the motherboard or video card that stop working or ?????

Has never happened before ..


MVH DjMollet

I have test with a Nvidia Geforce 8800GT and never happen with that card.. Its happen only with the Powercolor 4890 card... And my powercolor 4890 no smoke and i dont smell something at all..

Britton30 said:

Welcom to Seven Forums DjMollet and thanks for filling in system specs.
This is a hard one. Do you have some back-up graphics card to swap out and try?
Try to uninstall the graphics card AND driver through Device manager. Reboot and let Windows find and install a new driver.

What were you doing just before this happened? Does your manual list trouble codes for the LED's flashing?
Did you notice smoke, smell something "hot", or feel heat?

   Tip

You can also try to find a newer ATI driver from Powercolor

yes is does when i start it.. i get a short beep..

Britton30 said:

Offhand I would suggest you have a bad Powercolor card.
Hopefully you can return it and get a replacement. Does your motherboard give a normal, usually one short beep when you start?

okok.. But the computer start like normal..

Britton30 said:

The one short beep usually means all is well, graphics, RAM, temps, etc. Still sounds as if the Powercolor board might be a fried since the other one removes the problem.

Now it happen again.. it countdown be it self..