Endless Paradigm

I'll make it short..... my PC died and I need HELP!

I was just skyping with my bro and then suddenly my Monitor said "NO SIGNAL INPUT" and all my USB devices lost power.... well I just thought Windows crashed and rebooted the PC.. well nothing.... but the PC itself was still running, I cutted the power and turned it on again..... DEAD... nothing....
The fans are spinning and I hear my HDDs initializing but the screen stays black, I don't hear a Windows Boot sound nor anything else after 15 minutes of waiting...

I opened up the case and checked the connections, everything seems fine and all fans are able to spin freely. So I got an idea and installed my Motherboard speaker, turned it on again and it won't even beep....

The funny thing is my PC acted exactly the same when I brought it over to a friend a while ago for a LAN.
I plugged all the cables in and nothing, the PC powered on but nothing happend afterwards.
I connected the Monitor to the other DVI Port and it booted :o

This didn't helped now... any sugesstions?

Sounds like the Graphics Card has failed :(

What graphics card do you have?

Same thing happened to me, like Sieto said, graphics card is dead.

could be a faulty PSU, when mine went i had EXACTLY the same symptoms. It would boot up, and all fans went, but nothing else happened

Same thing happened to me before but now it works./ . . .


STRANGE: !!!!!

That is DEFINITELY the graphics card. Same thing happened to my brother last week, because he accidentally broke the latch for his graphics card on the motherboard, and there wasn't any contact. Time to get a new graphics card it seems.

Well I hope it's only the Graphics card..... I already ordered a new one including a new PSU... But would a faulty Graphics Card prevent the rest from booting? I mean I don't even hear MoBo beeps. Oh well when I'm back at home tomorrow I will completely remove the card, then it should boot, right?

SkyDX Wrote:Well I hope it's only the Graphics card..... I already ordered a new one including a new PSU... But would a faulty Graphics Card prevent the rest from booting? I mean I don't even hear MoBo beeps. Oh well when I'm back at home tomorrow I will completely remove the card, then it should boot, right?

If I recall correctly, unless your mobo has an integrated gpu, then you need a graphics card to boot.

you said you tried the another dvi port...was that on the same card?
if it was on a different card, or the mainboard itself then the problem is way bigger.

if it was the same card Senseito is probably right...

as for the speakers, the volume could be low (or off), or the cpu could have died...
I don't really know why a cpu would die like that though, unless it is quite old.