ATI Graphics Card doesn't work?

[N!ck]

Hmm, do you feel comfortable with opening up the dead computer?

Well obviously they must have done already to check if the fan was spinning.

[Blue]

Fair enough

Well on the motherboard there should be a little battery. Try taking it out and putting it back in again

Looks like this:

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[Stephen!]

I would try actually to remove the card and then put it back in again just to clean the contacts to the PCI-E slot.

[Andys]

I think there was that manky electrical burning smell and a blue puff of smoke.

ahhh the memories.
LOL.

try a differant graphics card just to make sure that is the problem.
also as stephen suggested try taking it out then putting it back.

[lolwut]

Sorry about not being able to reply, again...

I'm gonna go try taking the CMOS battery out and taking the card out and slotting it back in even though I've already tried that once before. Will report back.
Andys; I'd try another card, but I don't have any.


EDIT: Just took CMOS (Date And Time) battery and card out and blew in the slot for the card, had a lot of dust in my mouth.
Anyway, the computer's just started up with signal. But it did this before and died after about 10 minutes so I'm gonna sit and wait to see if it does.

Thanks so much to whoever told me to take the battery out and whoever told me to take the card out!

[Blue]

No probs, i had the same problem with my graphics card a while back, and someone on here told me to take the cmos battery out

[N!ck]

No probs, i had the same problem with my graphics card a while back, and someone on here told me to take the cmos battery out

I don't really see how it would help but i suppose there's a small chance it could. Did it work for you?

And i believe you're refering to a CMOS reset which generally involves moving a jumper rather than just removing the battery.

[Blue]

It did work. And I was only told to take out the battery which I thought was odd, but oh well, it worked

[lolwut]

It sort of all works now... :S

And my motherboard doesn't actually have a CMOS reset jumper, I was looking for it last time I crashed then realised taking it out has the same effect.

Thanks all!

[Stephen!]

Glad you got it sorted. Well, the CMOS option actually makes sense. You see, when you clear the CMOS, your motherboard has to re-register all of the components in the machine. Maybe all it was is that the graphics card was not being registered.