Graphics Card TroubleShoot

[Christian Darrall]

Well i have a graphics card and i think its quite old, but i would like to test it to see if it works, i put it in my sig rig. and the moniter didn't turn on, but it starts to get warm. around the CPU (not pc's cpu, the gfx card)

is there any way of trouble shooting it and isolating the problem,

 

[Iluvpenguins]

1)Graphic card cpu is referred to as gpu

2)if its been thrown around or stored for a while and possibly damaged seeing as how its old,then it might just not work.

 

[fade2green514]

gpu = graphics processing unit.
cpu = central processing unit... meaning general purpose
its supposed to be warm, that means its sucking the heat away from the gpu. its a good thing, as long as it doesnt burn your hand. for the most part though, video cards are pretty tough and can take extreme heat... even more so than cpu's.

 

[The_Other_One]

Could be a bad card. I've found some that still got hot, even if they didn't work. Also, you didn't specify if it's PCI or AGP, or if you even removed your other card... So, could your computer be trying to use the previous card?

 

[Christian Darrall]

its supposed to be warm, that means its sucking the heat away from the gpu.

which is good because that means its doing something. Doesn't it?

as long as it doesnt burn your hand.

no, not that hot.

if its been thrown around or stored for a while and possibly damaged seeing as how its old

it had a carboard box on it which had loads of other stuff, like cat5 network cards and sound cards. 200 total.

Also, you didn't specify if it's PCI or AGP,

AGP8X

or if you even removed your other card

my other card is agp aswell, and i have no other agp slots,

 

[Christian Darrall]

so what would be the prob,

p.s. dont take the quotes the wrong way.