Gigabyte HD4890 failure

Ryan_Fpv

Ryan_Fpv

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I believe my video card (See sig below) has failed on me today... Woke up this morning and turned my computer on and I noticed on the motherboard display screen (the bit where you enter the bios and shit) that it was sparkling with little pixels flickering all over the place... I thought aww crap there goes the monitor.
It continued to the XP load screen and then it froze when it got to the blue "Welcome" page that windows displays before it loads into the desktop. It was just blue for about 10-20 seconds and then the signal was gone and I got the "Analog" and "Digital" messages popping up on my monitor to suggest it was trying to detect it.
I've plugged my monitor into my old computer (Some acer crap with 9600 series video card) and it works fine. I've tried both the analog and the digital cables through this computer and they both work (so disappointingly it is not a problem with a $5 cable). The monitor is working fine through here and I have received no problems.
You gotta hand it to samsung though, this would be the third video card it has outlasted.

Anyway, now you know what I'm dealing with, you mind telling me? I have no idea what's going on. I highly doubt it's a virus since I was getting the errors before windows even loaded (sparkly screen).
So yeah, any help at fixing this or diagnosing the problem would be great.
 
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Yup, my money's on the GPU. They tend to go out more than monitors. Plus your problems sound very much like a failing GPU. Usually if it's the monitor, you'll just lose video all together :P Or if it's a CRT, well, they have lots of cool ways of dying ;)
 
^ Indeed. It's the GPU.

And my old CRT monitor was in the process of dying... First it would go all fuzzy and distorted and at that point i threw it out :P
 
Ah, but gigabytes don't give up that easily.

Cleaned it up a bit, there was a massive load of dust on it and took it down to my mates gave it a blast with the air compressor and now it is running 10*C cooler... And is running.
It must have just been over heating or something and the sensor switching it off as it tried to get into windows.

Thanks for your replies.
 
Ryan dude, i have the exact card the fans are shit on them i had to get a fan controller to control the fan speed.
 
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