Dropping a card onto a metal frame should not cause a failure unless the
card had power to it. This does not mean that there might not have been
mechanical damage done, such as a bent pin someplace. Why not just
temporarily borrow any video card from another computer to verify or reject
this conjecture?

Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> Those werre the first things I tried.  No change, so unless I
> hear differently, I am going to assume that the card went
> south when I dropped it contact side down on the metal frame
> of the old case.
>
> >Hi Joseph,
> >Have you tried removing the card and cleaning the connections?
> >I think I'd probably reseat the ram anyway, just  for the
> sake of it too.
> >http://www.amptron.com/html/bios.beepcodes.html

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