graphics card no longer works.

[SnoopyDog]

I have a custom made PC that I made and had it for two years. Here is the set up:

Motherboard: ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO
Graphics Card: Integrated on the motherboard
No backup graphics card.
Power Supply: Consair 500w
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 2.7 Ghz
Harddrive: WD
OS: Windows 7 Pro / Open SUSE 13.2 (dual booted)
Display: 27" ASUS

Problem:

I have this system for two years. I bought every component to build this system. My friend who sold me this motherboard and it worked great. So, two days ago, I was getting errors or system hang and I didn't see any error codes and a long strings of folders and files locations and I reboot to system to get back on linux. So, I successfully boot in to linux with no problems until 30 minutes later, I got errors again and the system hang. So I reboot again, all I got was no screen display. Normally, it will show me BIOS Motherboard screen splash and go to grub selection. However it did not do that. After several reboots I get no good results. All I got were HDMI connection not detected on my display. So I pull the hdmi cable out and replugged in and still no results, so I got my VGA cable and plugged it in and no results. So, I pulled out my backup display monitor a dell monitor and it only have a VGA cable port so, I hooked it up and boot up my PC and still the same results, no display information showing on the monitor just a black screen that set my monitor to sleep.

I checked to see if my system board is running, all I see the 2 fans and 1 CPU fan is running, I have a green little light on the board lit, I feel my hard drive working. Power supply is working. So, my conclusion to this investigation is that integrated graphics on the system board is fried.

So, I'm on here to see what you guys think or suggest or advice. I do know the motherboard is old or outdated because there are far better newer motherboards available for me.

 

[Epic Sasa]

most likely the cpu integrated graphics are not the most reliable you can probably find a 50 dollar graphics card without a problem

 

[SnoopyDog]

Which graphics card should I get according to my system build? I was thinking about getting $50 to $100. I do play games on my computer and I could save up for a better graphics card. But for now, a every day use graphics card would be good.

 

[Epic Sasa]

first tell me what you play but right now r7 250 looks nice and gtx 750 if you can afford

 

[SnoopyDog]

I have the Journey Man Project Prime, America's Army, Civilization 5, Super Power 2, Doom 3, Sim City (the new game, not the first Sim City), Command & Conquer games, Star Trek Online, and I tried to play EVE Online but the integrated graphics cannot handle it.

 

[SnoopyDog]

Ok I bought the ASUS AMD RADEON R7 260X and when I installed it, hooked it up with HDMI cable, and powered it on, I still don't see any information on the display monitor, I powered it off and switch HDMI cable to VGA cable and powered it on, and still no information coming up on the display, it still says HDMI or VGA no signal. So, looked at the motherboard, I see lights on from the fans, CPU fans is running, I see a little green light on the motherboard. The GPU have two fans on it and its running as well. Since the GPU is working and still not displaying anything on the display monitor, what is another problem that might be contributing to this? Would it be a chipset that gone bad or CPU processor gone bad?

 

[Epic Sasa]

might be even your monitor try your monitor somewhere else and if its not working then probably monitor signal broke

 

[SnoopyDog]

I hooked it up to my backup Dell display monitor and powered it on, I still didn't get any information.

 

[coozie7]

Don't take this the wrong way but it's been done plenty of times before so I have to ask.
Have you connected your monitor to the graphics card outputs and not the motherboard?

 

[SnoopyDog]

I connected the HDMI cable to the newly installed Radeon R7 260X that I bought today, I still didnt get any boot information or anything, the ASUS display monitor's yellow led light indicating that its sleeping or no signal. So, I got the VGA cable and connected to the newly installed graphics card and same results, nothing. So, I got my Dell monitor and hooked up with the VGA cable (doesn't have HDMI), and nothing. Just yellow light indicating that its sleeping or no signal.

 

[Epic Sasa]

yeah thats weird you should bring your monitor and test it at a friend's house maybe if you don't think its a monitor problem it might be cpu problem very hard to figure out whats wrong

 

[SnoopyDog]

I don't think its my monitor, since I tested the newly installed graphics card on my backup display monitor, its gonna be something wrong somewhere on my motherboard. I was on Open SUSE linux figuring out how to deactive the GRUB 2, since I was having problems installing a Windows update, the one with everyone that is having problems with, the one that reboots after so many times of configuring and reverting the settings. So that's when my system hangs so many times and I have to reboot it several time until my monitor cannot get signal from my integrated graphics.