ashblk

I think my video card is dead man, Windows work 1 of 5 start up and when it starts up its just a black screen but the monitor is on.

I'm trying to find the problem but honestly I cannot figure it out right now, I am about to run memtest and see if there is a free system disk that checks your hardware for you.

scottsee

Does the monitor go into standby mode? This is on vista? Sounds like a corrupt driver.

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ashblk

Yes the monitor turns on but no loading screen. Do you know of a program to back up the hard drive?

egerds

Try unplugging and re-seating the video card and ram.
Had that problem recently. kinda odd how it wasn't that way all the time

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ashblk

I'm re-installing my system but it froze up again... I'm going to reseat the ram and gpu.

scottsee

My 4870 did the same thing, my issue was a driver related with win7. How far do you get in the windows install?

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ashblk

I installed Vista 64 bit and it's still freezing on me, I have to reboot again.

scottsee

Still overclocked?

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ashblk

I re-installed the OS but I don't know if it's still overclocked.

jpark59

try to check cpu heatsink see if it's not loosened

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