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Old February 15th, 2008, 12:56 AM
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I recently fried my mobo, so I replaced it and the processor. I hooked everything up and it all went well no beeps, everything powered on, and my USB devices worked. The monitor had no picture though, so I thought maybe the graphics card fried when the mobo fried, but the fan powers on. I tested the monitor and it works fine on another pc. Can I damage my pc by plugging in a broken G card? It's a geforce 7800 agp and if the G card is gone does that mean my Ram from the old pc is also gone?

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Old February 15th, 2008, 01:39 AM
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The graphics card could be bad. I'm not sure what you mean by ram from the old pc is gone also? Graphics bad wouldn't take out your memory/ram also or together. Does the computer make any beeps? It should make at least one, at start up.
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Old February 15th, 2008, 02:57 AM
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The ram from the fried motherboard. If the G card is bad does that mean the ram is also?
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Old February 15th, 2008, 02:59 AM
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Just because the G card might be fried, doesn't mean the ram is too.

Are you getting any beeps when it first tries to start? And did you test all this before installing harddrives, and optical drives, with just the processor and motherboard, with 1 stick of ram?
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Old February 15th, 2008, 07:55 PM
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Theres no beeps and yeah I powered it up without the hard drives and optical drives first.
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Old February 15th, 2008, 08:27 PM
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I forgot to put the standoffs back in, so im guessing I possibly shorted the mobo.
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Old February 15th, 2008, 09:07 PM
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Yes, without standoffs, it has shorted the motherboard.
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Old February 15th, 2008, 09:07 PM
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their the little bronze screw like ones
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Old February 15th, 2008, 09:08 PM
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I know what standoffs are.....I just happen to build my own computers too. I just forgot to ask you if you used them before installing the motherboard in the case.
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Old February 15th, 2008, 09:44 PM
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I only left two stand offs out, so I took the mobo out and put ram, g card, and processor/heatsink. Now it makes one long beep.
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Old February 15th, 2008, 09:52 PM
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Did you check that there is no standoffs where there are no motherboard holes?

And since I can help easier if I knew what motherboard you have, would you please tell me the model name and number?
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Old February 15th, 2008, 09:56 PM
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I just took the G card out and ran the mobo without it, but now there is no beep with just processor, sink, and ram. BIOSTAR P4M80-M4 478 VIA P4M800
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Old February 15th, 2008, 10:19 PM
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What graphics card is this?

I can't find any BIOS beeps related to Video card with that long continous beep you're talking about. 1 long, 2 short would mean bad video card, 1 long 3 short would mean no video card or bad video ram. One long continuous beep repeating beep would be memory problem.

And taking the video card out and motherboard doesn't beep, that would indicate the motherboard is faulty.
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Old February 16th, 2008, 12:40 AM
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It is a Gforce 7800
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Old February 16th, 2008, 01:03 AM
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It beeped because I forgot to plug it in... Just realized that
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