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  • grss1982
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Mar 2007
    • 225
    • Philippines
    #1

    Qs on Radeon 9700 Pro

    Before anything else, Happy New Year to everyone. its Jan 1, 2008 at 3:03 a.m. here in my fairy city of Cebu, Philippines. :-)

    Anyways I've come upon a local guy here in my city selling a 9700 pro, which he claims was damaged when his rig was turned on when the 4-pin connector on the card was not connected. He claims that the connector was blackened and some smoke was coming out.

    My question: Is it really possible for that to happen? I thought when the power connector was not plugged the result will be no video & POST/BIOS won't happen/appear.

    Also is that still repairable???

    He provided an image but it was taken pretty badly

    http://img170.*************/img170/3057/radeonru6.jpg
    CPU: Sempron 2500+ / P4 2.8E / P4 2.6C / A64 x2 4000+ / E6420 / E8500 / i5-3470 / i7-3770
    GPU: TNT2 M64 / Radeon 9000 / MX 440-SE / 7300GT / Radeon 4670 / GTS 250 / Radeon 7950 / 660 Ti / GTS 450

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    • Per Hansson
      Super Moderator
      • Jul 2005
      • 5895
      • Sweden
      #2
      Re: Qs on Radeon 9700 Pro

      A 9700 without the AUX cable connected will display a message before the computer POSTs; something like you need to attach the power cable, stupid, RTFM

      Wording might be slightly different :P

      Think it also has a zummer which beeps very fast... Or maybe it uses the computers PC Speaker for that...

      In short; no, a 9700/9800 will not be damaged by trying to power on with the cable not attached, I've managed that feat several times :P
      "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

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        • grss1982
          Badcaps Veteran
          • Mar 2007
          • 225
          • Philippines
          #3
          Re: Qs on Radeon 9700 Pro

          Originally posted by Per Hansson
          A 9700 without the AUX cable connected will display a message before the computer POSTs; something like you need to attach the power cable, stupid, RTFM

          Wording might be slightly different :P

          Think it also has a zummer which beeps very fast... Or maybe it uses the computers PC Speaker for that...

          In short; no, a 9700/9800 will not be damaged by trying to power on with the cable not attached, I've managed that feat several times :P
          Thansks Per Hansson. :-)

          BTW, just got in contact with the seller he tells me he has tried putting the VC back on his rig, but his only getting beeps.

          He also confirmed that the connector was blackened and was belching out some smoke when the incident happened.

          Any thoughts on the beeping? Could it be that the contacts have come loose on the VC's connector?
          CPU: Sempron 2500+ / P4 2.8E / P4 2.6C / A64 x2 4000+ / E6420 / E8500 / i5-3470 / i7-3770
          GPU: TNT2 M64 / Radeon 9000 / MX 440-SE / 7300GT / Radeon 4670 / GTS 250 / Radeon 7950 / 660 Ti / GTS 450

          Main Driver: Intel i7 3770 | Asus P8H61-MX | MSI GTS 450 | 8GB of NO NAME DDR3 RAM (2x4GB) | 1TB SATA HDD (W.D. Blue) | ASUS DVD-RW | 22" HP Compaq LE2202x (1920x1080) | Seasonic S12II-620 PSU | Antec 300 | Windows 7 Ultimate with SP1

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            • Per Hansson
              Super Moderator
              • Jul 2005
              • 5895
              • Sweden
              #4
              Re: Qs on Radeon 9700 Pro

              I guess the beeps are the card warning that the power cable is not attached... Maybe a trace was burned?
              "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

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                • zandrax
                  Hit and miss
                  • Dec 2007
                  • 1157
                  • Italy
                  #5
                  Re: Qs on Radeon 9700 Pro

                  grss1982, the card may be damaged: I destroyed my Voodoo 5 5500 Agp card in a similar accident.
                  After I had lubed its fans, I forgot to connect the auxiliary molex; when I switched on my pc, it was unable to boot: only a long beep followed by three short ones. I replaced the Voodoo with a Pci graphic card and the pc booted as usual; I tried another agp card and it worked too, so I excluded any motherboard damage.
                  Later I forced the bios to use a pci card (Primary card: PCI), installed both the pci and the Voodoo and run the Craig's PCI.exe diagnostic: the 3dfx was listed as a Pci device, but the Agp interface was inaccessible. I realized the Voodoo's agp bridge was burnt .

                  Get an old pci graphic card and try the Radeon before spending any money.

                  Zandrax
                  Last edited by zandrax; 01-02-2008, 03:44 PM. Reason: forgot the link
                  Have an happy life.

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                    • grss1982
                      Badcaps Veteran
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 225
                      • Philippines
                      #6
                      Re: Qs on Radeon 9700 Pro

                      @zandrax: thanks for that litle info. :-)
                      CPU: Sempron 2500+ / P4 2.8E / P4 2.6C / A64 x2 4000+ / E6420 / E8500 / i5-3470 / i7-3770
                      GPU: TNT2 M64 / Radeon 9000 / MX 440-SE / 7300GT / Radeon 4670 / GTS 250 / Radeon 7950 / 660 Ti / GTS 450

                      Main Driver: Intel i7 3770 | Asus P8H61-MX | MSI GTS 450 | 8GB of NO NAME DDR3 RAM (2x4GB) | 1TB SATA HDD (W.D. Blue) | ASUS DVD-RW | 22" HP Compaq LE2202x (1920x1080) | Seasonic S12II-620 PSU | Antec 300 | Windows 7 Ultimate with SP1

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                        • RJARRRPCGP
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                          • Jul 2004
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                          #7
                          Re: Qs on Radeon 9700 Pro

                          Sounds like the dreaded one long bleep and three short bleeps of death.
                          It means the motherboard BIOS failed to init the video card.
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