So I went ahead and bought a XFX HD 5830 off a guy on eBay (he is going to refund me), but I am just wondering the real way to see if a card is dead?
He said it was working but flickered at startup and that was it, it worked, so I assumed this was just the basic VGA and monitor sync.
Upon receiving it I found that the card did not boot up or recognise at all. There was no boot up spin, no basic VGA output, nothing. Only the fan whirring around.
Taking out the power plugs caused it to fully spin up, so I assume some drivers are working.
Does this mean the chip really is completed gone? What other problems can kill a card? The guy said he does not game or use video editing, and the card is very young. So bit confused, could it just be a fluke?
I took out all other connectors on my motherboard, including my sound card to reduce the chance of short circuiting the card. Still nothing, I tried the HDMI connector on my down stairs TV, nothing.
I can't see why the card would give nothing if its young, and hardly used. The guy selling it seems genuine, his selling history doesn't involve much computing, his is the only component he's sold.
When I had faulty cards in the past I would see they would run insanely hot, be very loud full spin constant, or produce some type of error on screen after Windows turns to the ATI drivers instead of basic VGA.
I cleared CMOS, I have good supply. Corsair TX650.
Could it really be just a dead card so suddenly? Or is it something on my side. PCI-E 2.1 is backwards compatible with PCI-E 2.0 right (unless HD 5830 IS PCI-E 2.0?)
Thanks.


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