Recent content by gmike

"solved" to end this topic. i bought a am2 mobo. all worked well. i found out my parts are facedout. oh well. at least i get to get games running well. thats enough for me. thx for helping guys

Ok, now i have the cash to buy a new mobo... But im still 99% sure its the mobo... If u think it isnt, please tell me, i dont want to be throwing money in the drain... :( Or if theres another test i can do to be sure, pls do telll... Thank you... Buying mobo 20hrs later after this post

@greghome ... If its my gts250 then why wouldnt a geforce8600 work, it has the same problem... So it couldnt be my gpu... If its the psu... The geforce8600 doesnt need 12v power plug from the psu, therefore it should work if the problem actually is the psu... Mobo on the otherhand is a...

do you think removing everything including the mobo from the chassis, and placing it on a non conductive surface and just pluging the gfx cpu psu will do anything good? or could be a relation to my problem, and a possibility of fixing it? or too much hassle for a very very small luck

Wat do u mean final confirmation? Anyways, still bums me that a simple restart causes such damage. Im bringing my comp to a repair shop, theyve got spares there, And their banner says "free checking"

Update: I couldnt try my gts250 on another system, but i managed to borrow a geforce8600GT. i plugged the geforce 8600 on my system and nothing happens... :( mobo goes tick tock, about 6 times and goes onboard VGA...same thing with the gts250 now it goes down to bad MoBo PCIe or bad PSU...

I have a 550w psu, bought new with graphic card 1 year ago. Also had cpu, cpu fan, 2gb ram n gfx card powered... Still no go... :(

Simple n short... I just restarted my comp, and no video signal! Unplugged everything 1 by 1 to determine which hardware causing the problem. When i remove my geforce 250 and use onboard gfx... Computer works So it brings me down to a broken graphic card or broken pciE slot. Working on testing...