No picture on monitor please help!

[bmlocal175]

Have a Viewsonic 95F that is 3 yrs old and was just sent away and returned for a warranty repair and has been fine for over 2 months now.
Was having some choppy play on Counter-Strike and after long troubleshooting periods it was my nvidia GF4 4600ti getting to hot. After cleaning my pc inside and out by getting rid of the dust and cleaning fans everything was alright.
Yesterday I saw the screensaver was on and then the next trip by the pc no picture at all. Moved mouse nothing. Restarted the computer, nothing. Pc no longer turns the monitor on and when I do manually the monitor says no scan or something. Anyway doesnt look like its getting a feed from the video card.
Is it liklely my card died on me? Checked my cable and noticed the new cable I received from viewsonic now is missing a prong at the pc end. But hooked up the old monitor with its cable and nothing. Prong doesn't look like it is in the video card plug. Will I need a new cord also if the video card is bad or does a missing prong not mean anything?

Anyway any help would be great. If I need a new card so be it I wanted one anyway so I could play BF2 if I choose to but thats another thread in itself. Wouldn't want to spend to much but at least want a card better than the GF4 4600ti. So by me trying the old monitor with its cord and no picture did I answer my own question--Its the card?

BMLocal175

 

[davemar14]

Did you try reseating the graphics card? Ifs that not the case, throw in a different card to eliminate any other problem. I upgraded from a Ti4200 to a 6800GT and the difference is awesome. Runs BF2 at around 60-65 FPS/sec at 1024x768 all highest settings.

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[bmlocal175]

Don't think the reseating of the card was an issue seeing how I have never taking it out until yesterday. I wanted to say the fan still runs on the card but still no picture.

I guess I will start pricing cards and which would be best for me. If for some reason the new card gives me no picture then I'm beyond what I can do. Was going to price cards over the internet and ebay for cheaper prices but if I have to return it it could be a problem.

Any thoughts on the missing prong on my cable? It might have been missing for awhile now and still working. Not sure how these cables work.

BMLocal175

 

[Crashman]

It could be the card, but it's most likely something else.

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[GeneticWeapon]

Weak power supply.

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[bmlocal175]

Now this card has worked fine for over 3 yrs. If it is something else what would it be. Its not the monitor or cable because I swapped it with my older one and still no picture. Power supply? Would that just go bad and how do I troubleshoot that? I guess I just need to buy a card locally to see if it is the card and if not I can return it.

 

[bmlocal175]

Hooked up an older PCI card and now the PC gets a picture. So can I now say bad video card? Could there still be something wrong on the AGP side of things?

I hope someone can answer this so I can sleep at night now knowing all I need is a card.

 

[deweycd]

To me it sounds like the video card has decided to give out. When cleaning it could you have possibly damaged it in some way?

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AMD64 3000+ @ 2.2GHz 1024MB Ram
ASUS K8N-E Deluxe NVidia NForce 3 250GB
MSI 6800GT AGP @ 385/1104
2X120GB SATA150 7200 Raid 0
385Watt Quiet Power

 

[GeneticWeapon]

Ti4600's have an overwhelming power draw. I had a system that refused to send a video signal with a Ti4200 in it, but it worked fine with an 8500LE, 9500Pro, etc...

You need to try that Ti4600 in another machine to know for sure..

A unified pipeline is coming....expect big things.

 

[bmlocal175]

Well i tried my buddies old GFmx400 or something like that. Its an agp and it works fine. So i will be buying a new card, probably a 6600GT.

 

[RedToxin]

I had the exact same problem a month ago with a GF4 ti4600. It was also about three years old. So now I feel better. I left my PC on almost 24/7 so that couldn't have helped either with overheating. One day the monitor just wouldn't come on and the PC wouldn't boot.

Bought a GeForce 6800 to replace and it works great. 6600GT sounds like a good replacement. I was able to get either a 6800 or a 6600GT with rebates that made both $200 so I went with the 6800. Usually the 6800 is 50-100 bucks more making the 6600GT a much better value.

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<font color=green> Intel_Pentium_4 </font color=green> (2.4GHz)
<font color=orange>eGeForce 6800</font color=orange> <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by RedToxin on 09/15/05 10:59 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[danizaken]

Can't wait for ati to release it's next generation cards on early october, causing the previous high end cards prices'(x850) to soar down, and then it's upgrade time

 

[RedToxin]

Yeah upgrading the video card is FUN! Made me feel like I had a brand new system. Almost the same feeling you get when you first start up your new PC. My interest in PC games went back up.

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<font color=green> Intel_Pentium_4 </font color=green> (2.4GHz)
<font color=orange>eGeForce 6800</font color=orange>