A friend complains about his computer. He says that sometimes it boots normally, but sometimes there is no signal on the screen and the standby led is flickering.
His pc is an athlon X2 5800+ 2GB DDR2 2xHDD 320GB SATA, psu amacrox 600W etc.
He has 2 x MSI 8600 GTS connected in sli mode. 3 months ago he put the vga cable at graphics card #2 because he stopped getting any image from card #1 and the sli option disappeared in windows.
I went there and found out that the metal cover of the slot above the gpu #1 has fallen into the card, as seen at the photo , possibly shorting some pins.
I removed the metal cover and tried again the card but it didn't work.
The other 8600gts was ok, so he thanked me and gave me the faulty gpu to test it home.
When tested on a pentium 4 3ghz ht, pc boots, intel logo appears normally, but some seconds later the screen enters suspend mode..
What could be the cause of the problem? Is it repairable?
His pc is an athlon X2 5800+ 2GB DDR2 2xHDD 320GB SATA, psu amacrox 600W etc.
He has 2 x MSI 8600 GTS connected in sli mode. 3 months ago he put the vga cable at graphics card #2 because he stopped getting any image from card #1 and the sli option disappeared in windows.
I went there and found out that the metal cover of the slot above the gpu #1 has fallen into the card, as seen at the photo , possibly shorting some pins.
I removed the metal cover and tried again the card but it didn't work.
The other 8600gts was ok, so he thanked me and gave me the faulty gpu to test it home.
When tested on a pentium 4 3ghz ht, pc boots, intel logo appears normally, but some seconds later the screen enters suspend mode..
What could be the cause of the problem? Is it repairable?
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