Graphics Card Just Fried Itself...

[Amon.Cire]

Yup...

Left my computer on and walked away... came back and the pc wouldn't even boot back up. The GeForce 8800GT graphics card was really hot, seems it toasted itself... when I removed the card and put it back in the computer would turn on but not boot, and the card gave a loud beeping noise.

I really am guessing that the card is lost. Currently have an old, and substantially worse one running in the computer... reduced to a single monitor now...

Does everyone agree the card is lost, or is there something I should try?

EDIT: woo can run two monitors it seems.

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[Echo 7-7]

Have you inspected the card's thermal paste? It may need replacing.

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[Daron]

When it is overheating the 8800 should shut down by itself.
That beeping may be point to a power issue as the 8800 is very power hungry and killed one of my power supplies back in times.
To be sure you should check the card in a another rig.

And perhaps you want to clean the fans.

[Remnant]

I agree with Daron, that model of GPU is supposed to shut down automatically if the heat goes critical. I would see if you could replace your power supply (How much wattage is it?) And prehaps even trying it without your GPU if your motherboard has a chipset built in as well.

[Amon.Cire]

I agree with Daron, that model of GPU is supposed to shut down automatically if the heat goes critical. I would see if you could replace your power supply (How much wattage is it?) And prehaps even trying it without your GPU if your motherboard has a chipset built in as well.

Well the computer is running fine with an old graphics card/ with no graphics card... the fan has been acting up on the GPU... I will try cleaning and putting it back in perhaps... the power supply is 600 watt, should be able to take it.

Have you inspected the card's thermal paste? It may need replacing.

Thermal paste you say... will have to look into that.

EDIT: *sigh* tried taking the faceplate off, cleaning the fan, and putting it back in. still just beeps and doesn't boot. Pretty sure this is the end of this wonderful GPU... R.I.P. sweet graphics,

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[matskiuk]

thing is the wattage isnt what people whould be looking for, its the ampage that is on each 12v rail

eg

my novatech nvidia 560ti overclockerd edition fried a 850w psu after 1 month , reason: there was only 18amps on the 12v rails wehn it needs 25amps

so i bought an 850w psu which has 30 amps on the 12v rails, not a problem

you could even get a 300w ps that would be fine aslong as there is enough amps on the 12v rails
it kinda works like this: (total amps need*total volts needed) = approx wattage

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