I hate when things go BOOM!

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Fired up the desktop this morning, heard the ominous bedump! sound from Win 7 and was greeted with a black LCD screen with a flashing red dot indicating no active signal.  Fans and lights on the box and peripherals indicated that the PC was running and everything had power.  Checked the connection to the monitor and it was good.  Fired up the TV and switched over to the HDMI-from-PC connection.  No signal to the TV either.  Popped open the case and saw that the cooling fan on the video card was spinning so I knew the card was getting power.  Shut down the unit, checked that the card was still seated properly and booted up.  Still no signal.  Popped the card out and plugged it into another PCI slot.  Still no signal.

Grabbed my old 6870 card from the old desktop and plugged that in.  I intended to start in safe mode just to confirm that the card was functioning but for some reason, my Logitech G15 keyboard was non responsive when I booted up and I couldn't select anything.  Tdg good news is that the card worked.  Bad news is Win 7 went nuts trying to install drivers.  Now the video cards works but my new X55 stick software and Razer mouse software are buggered and won't run.

Off to buy a new video card. 290 I think.  Then the fun of trying to uninstall and reinstall drivers and software.

God damn it!

[GDS_Starfury]

I feel your pain.

I really really do.

take a look at the R9 270.  its been running great and you get 2 free games.  a bit hot though.  the max temp I've gotten has been 66C.

[Martok]

Ugh, that blows SDR.  Good luck with finding a new video card and getting everything up and running again. 

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

New video card's installed and up and running.  (annoying that it's slightly less powerful than my now-dead 7970).  Mouse now appears to be working again (although I'm not a fan of Razer's new cloud based profile system.)  X-55 software is still buggered.  Stick and throttle seem to be working in games but I can't start the software to create profiles or modify input slopes.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Typical, the warranty on the video card expired on Jun 11.

[mirth]

Typical, the warranty on the video card expired on Jun 11.

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

[eyebiter]

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[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Thanks.  I'll look into that.  Although....I did just pick up a case of 12 gauge slugs.......

[TacticalWargames]

I feel your pain.

I really really do.

take a look at the R9 270.  its been running great and you get 2 free games.  a bit hot though.  the max temp I've gotten has been 66C.

I have that graphics card, great power for the price.

[Boggit]

I feel your pain.

I really really do.

take a look at the R9 270.  its been running great and you get 2 free games.  a bit hot though.  the max temp I've gotten has been 66C.

I have that graphics card, great power for the price.

Me too. +1 but I've had to uninstall it for the moment, as the Corsair 750W power supply ran erratically, so I'm back with my old ATI 5450, which does the job, but is nowhere near as good.   :( BTW, I've had the Corsair PSU replaced, but I'm awaiting a larger case as the case architecture in my mini tower isn't ideal for it.

[endfire79]

That sucks SDR.

I had a bought a BFG 280 OC back in 2010 and it was bad out of the box (but not painfully obvious). Just at the same time BFG went out of business and no chance of RMA  :P  Bought myself a MSI GTX 460 card to replace it. 

[Grimnirsson]

Well, things going BOOM is ok...sometimes ;)

Yeah...that was the awesome gem of a game that was raw, brutal and pure fun bringing in some fresh air into the room of FPS stuffiness ...before lazy Epic Games bought them and the result was a mediocre and boring GoW shadow...named Judgement...