• GeForce 7600 died on me (screen garbled). Let's see if we can fix it
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That's it, my good ol' 7600 died. I was playing Red Alert 3 on steam and the game suddenly started lagging, but you could still see the screen and hear some laggy audio. The it suddenly stopped working, so I decided to force a shutdown pushing the button. Tried to start the system again but the screen was all garbled, and when it was almost on windows (XP, by the way), before the loading screen, it turns black and the computer stops working at all. So far I've tried removing one of the 512 Mb RAM modules, then the other one, and here comes the surprise, a beep code. I thought it was the video card, since I made it through the safe mode with all the weird stuff on the screen, so it wasn't the HDD, so I unplugged the video card and I got the same beep code. It's one long two shorts on an Asus P5LD2 mobo. Now it doesn't even try to start, it just gives me that code. That's pretty much all, I was planning on getting a whole new cheap build (300-500€), so advice here would be accepted BUT I Do Not Accept "Shitty card, get another one", even if it was old it ran crysis decently. Because crysis is for benchmarks. I'm asking for some help here :zoid: TL;DR: Second paragraph explains what I've done so far to try and fix an old video card which has decided to die while playing RA3, read it and try to help. Thanks for reading the wall, by the way.
The card is dead. Replace it. End of story. I truly doubt you can fix it in any way. EDIT: I looked up that BIOS post code, and it confirms what I said. The card is dead. Replace it, don't bother trying to fix it, as you can't.
[QUOTE=P4TCH;19443885]That's it, my good ol' 7600 died. I was playing Red Alert 3 on steam and the game suddenly started lagging, but you could still see the screen and hear some laggy audio. The it suddenly stopped working, so I decided to force a shutdown pushing the button. Tried to start the system again but the screen was all garbled, and when it was almost on windows (XP, by the way), before the loading screen, it turns black and the computer stops working at all. So far I've tried removing one of the 512 Mb RAM modules, then the other one, and here comes the surprise, a beep code. I thought it was the video card, since I made it through the safe mode with all the weird stuff on the screen, so it wasn't the HDD, so I unplugged the video card and I got the same beep code. It's one long two shorts on an Asus P5LD2 mobo. Now it doesn't even try to start, it just gives me that code. That's pretty much all, I was planning on getting a whole new cheap build (300-500€), so advice here would be accepted BUT I Do Not Accept "Shitty card, get another one", even if it was old it ran crysis decently. Because crysis is for benchmarks. I'm asking for some help here :zoid: TL;DR: Second paragraph explains what I've done so far to try and fix an old video card which has decided to die while playing RA3, read it and try to help. Thanks for reading the wall, by the way.[/QUOTE] Do you have an onboard video card you can use to test the rest of your system? If the 7600 is borked it will stay borked, just get a new one.
I'm going to do one last test with another video card. Advice on a new 300-500€ build accepted
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