Snotty
November 7th, 2007, 10:59 PM
:rant: My MoBo was tanked by a friggen video card.
My brother was trying to build a system and he thought the MoBo was bad out of the box. The Board was a Striker Extreme and the VC was a BFG 8800 GTX. It would never bring up a post screen or dos prompt and you would never get any beep codes. Nothing. He thought it was the MoBo and returned it, but never got another one.
So, we talked and I suggested that it sounded more like the VC since the Video was dead and the MoBo never beeped. He disagreed. So I volunteered to take the VC home and put it in my system to see if it was really dead.
Guess what... I put the god forsaken VC in my system and the exact same thing happened to me! PANIC! PANIC NOW!!! I pulled it and put my VC back in boom. DEAD MUTHER EFFING MOBO!!! The freaking VC tanked the MoBo's! Both of them!
I pulled everything from my case and did a cmos clear and bios reset but nothing. The PSU is powering everything up, everything spins and looks like it is all excited. But no drive activty, nothing from the CDR and just in case it was actually booting, I let it sit and hoped to hear the wonderful sound of windows greeting me. No post screen, no beeps, no love.
So, I am off to Microcenter for a replacement. Thankfully the MoBo has a three year warrenty on it and MC replaces no questions asked. But damn it! I am having major shoulder surgery tomorrow and am going to have someone else put my system back together. Grrrr...
Anyone else ever seen this happen? I have seen it once before, but we are talking pre PnP days. When PSU's were flakey as hell and you hoped the peripheral you bought was going to work out of the box. The only thing I can think of, is there is a short in the VC and it nukes the interface as soon as it is powered up. Ugh...
My brother was trying to build a system and he thought the MoBo was bad out of the box. The Board was a Striker Extreme and the VC was a BFG 8800 GTX. It would never bring up a post screen or dos prompt and you would never get any beep codes. Nothing. He thought it was the MoBo and returned it, but never got another one.
So, we talked and I suggested that it sounded more like the VC since the Video was dead and the MoBo never beeped. He disagreed. So I volunteered to take the VC home and put it in my system to see if it was really dead.
Guess what... I put the god forsaken VC in my system and the exact same thing happened to me! PANIC! PANIC NOW!!! I pulled it and put my VC back in boom. DEAD MUTHER EFFING MOBO!!! The freaking VC tanked the MoBo's! Both of them!
I pulled everything from my case and did a cmos clear and bios reset but nothing. The PSU is powering everything up, everything spins and looks like it is all excited. But no drive activty, nothing from the CDR and just in case it was actually booting, I let it sit and hoped to hear the wonderful sound of windows greeting me. No post screen, no beeps, no love.
So, I am off to Microcenter for a replacement. Thankfully the MoBo has a three year warrenty on it and MC replaces no questions asked. But damn it! I am having major shoulder surgery tomorrow and am going to have someone else put my system back together. Grrrr...
Anyone else ever seen this happen? I have seen it once before, but we are talking pre PnP days. When PSU's were flakey as hell and you hoped the peripheral you bought was going to work out of the box. The only thing I can think of, is there is a short in the VC and it nukes the interface as soon as it is powered up. Ugh...