The card I'm talking about is a Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/2600 TV-DVI-DVI Golden Sample (:roll:) or shorter a 6800U 400/1100. I got that thing last august directly from Gainward US (haha..), mounted a Innovatek Cool-Matic NV40 and was using it on an almost daily basis for games & normal stuff w/o any problems -- until today.
Fired up the box, booted into XP as usual and clicked an icon when suddenly my Samsung 172X TFT monitor went blank and started searching a video signal. "Odd," I thought shutting everything down. "XP toasted the driver." For good measure I checked if the card is seated correctly (it was) and if the power connectors are ok (they where). Turning everything back on the monitor wouldn't show a picture, not even the BIOS screen.. After poking at the system a little bit it turned out that the DVI connectors of the card seemed to have quit delivering a signal. Finally I figured out that I could get a picture on the analog port of the lower DVI connector, but only there.
I did try the monitor on another system w/ a DVI connector (a 5950) -- works. I will try a different monitor for good measure tomorrow (ah, today
) evening but I doubt it'll work (experience..) Temperature of the card did not change, reinstalling the driver didn't change a bit, everything looks fine from w/in XP..Any ideas besides "It's dead, Jim" ?
Maybe because I turned the system completly off over night ? (when testing I just let it go into standby.)
