Geforce 6800 - dead ?

[MrChuck2006]

I have a horrible feeling my 6800 is now nothing more than a fancy paperweight.

Was running Empire at War last night when the whole PC just cut out and turned off. Pressing the power button did nothing. I check the fuse in the kettle lead and it was fine. Took the side panel off the case and disconnected everything. PC would then power on and start to boot. I reconnected everything and as soon as I run a power leads from the psu to the 6800 the PC won't power on anymore (it attempts to turn the gpu fan ever so slightly and that's it).

Could there be a problem with the psu or will I have to face the obvious and replace the graphics card ?

I have managed to boot the PC succesfully with an old TNT2 card and everything appears to be working correctly.

I'm running a Athlon XP3200 @ stock speeds with 1gb of Corsair XMS, 1x old IDE drive, a SATA drive, bog standard DVD drive and a Tagan 420 psu.

Any thoughts ?

[Koolpc]

Sounds like the Graphics card mate!

[herulach]

I'd say its probably worth trying the psu first, it could be that the gpu is just overloading it following something busting somewhere. Have you tried a few different connectors on the psu?

[MrChuck2006]

I'd say its probably worth trying the psu first, it could be that the gpu is just overloading it following something busting somewhere. Have you tried a few different connectors on the psu?

I've tried a couple of the psu connectors and get the same thing. I also tried just running the graphics card and 1 hard drive - nothing there either.

[Agent]

I'd say its probably worth trying the psu first, it could be that the gpu is just overloading it following something busting somewhere. Have you tried a few different connectors on the psu?

The PSU is listed as a Tagan 420watt though - no chance of it getting overloaded with that spec in a million years

[MrChuck2006]

Cheers for the help.

Looks like I'm in the market for a new graphics card now

[MSIC]

Just one thing - try removing the graphics card, the re-seating it. It happened to me once (similar thing - just stopped) and that did it for me.

[MrChuck2006]

I'll give that another go. I'm going to try it in another machine over the weekend and if that doens't boot/power up I think it'll be definitive.

[MSIC]

Fingers crossed. Make sure you remove bits of crap like dust etc, and all the metal connections are clean for a good signal. But don't pour water on your motherboard
Let us know.

[herulach]

The PSU is listed as a Tagan 420watt though - no chance of it getting overloaded with that spec in a million years

I know, but if something has gone tits up in it, especially if its one of the dual rail ones and one rail has gone ppop