If you have a PCI post card, plugging that in and then booting the machine
up, the post card might help.

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From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Eisenstadt
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:57 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCBUILD] GPU failure - could it destroy motherboard and/or cpu?

The computer is/was an Asus A7NA8X-X, cpu Athlon XP 3000+, 512Mb RAM, o.s.
Win XP SP 1, Gigabyte AGP x8 slot nVidia 7600 series, silent pipe (no fan)
using a
12v connector from the power supply unit. The Gigabyte gpu + Athlon cpu
which supports a
fast fps for playing FS2004 was bought in 2006 when the CPU was an Athlon XP
2600+.
Gigabyte repaired it just inside warranty period. It blew its insides
recently with green artefacts
flickering on a black screen and, maybe, the motherboard and/or CPU at the
same moment.
I tried the Gigabyte cpu in another computer with an AGP 8x slot and  it is
definitedly bad. But
with a known good PCI cpu, the mb could not bring up the BIOS  nor beep. The
mb
powered up normally. No beep is beep code for . . . I'm way over my payscale
here so I
am writing to ask PCBuild subscribers for help.

The monitor from this system crash was not affected

TIA

Mike Eisenstadt
Austin Texas

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