Is my 9800 gt fried?

[Servo Ten]

I was playing Metro 2033 (A+, 10/10 game. Would read again) when all of a sudden my computer just suddenly shuts down completely. Turns out it was overheating something fierce and after some CPR and promising I'd give up booze for Lent, my computer came back to life. It just wouldn't open its eyes.

My monitor was completely black as if my machine was turned off. I unplugged the cable from my nvidia geforce 9800 gt and plugged it back in and my Flatron L192WS monitor gave its "power saving mode" message before it went back to being blank like before. The computer itself booted up fine. I plugged it into my integrated card and now I'm running on that. My card doesn't seem to be working at all. Is it fried or is it able to be saved?

 

[pilotfish]

Sorry to be off topic but I think it needs to be said.

I thought the title was "Is my 9890 fried?"

The answer would be no. Very much no.

 

[Arzalis]

Probably fried. It's fairly old, too, so it'd be worth replacing it.

 

[MDDBULLDOGG]

It's a housefire waiting to happen

 

[Servo Ten]

NOOOOOOOOO

BUT THERE'S GOOD NEWS

THEY LAUGHED WHEN I GOT THE EXTENDED WARRANTY

THEY LAUGHED BUT WHO'S LAUGHING NOW??!!??!!

 

[pilotfish]

NOOOOOOOOO

BUT THERE'S GOOD NEWS

THEY LAUGHED WHEN I GOT THE EXTENDED WARRANTY

THEY LAUGHED BUT WHO'S LAUGHING NOW??!!??!!

The people who are getting paid to repair it? idk

 

[Detective Zero]

I've had this happen to me before. And infact, /same/ video card. I ended up getting a new one and now no more black outs.

 

[Annoying Rooster]

This happend to me one time, I had to get a whole brand new Motherboard, So it's fried, Sorry, Hope you have a warranty.

 

[Servo Ten]

My Mobo is fine.

 

[ciledog]

Lay the old girl to rest.

And instead get a GTX 560 Ti, because they dropped down another twenty bucks in price.

 

[deejay]

GTX 500 series master race here running two 580 sli's.

pls get a 580 gtx.

e: they are like 480$

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130587

 

[ciledog]

Two 560 Ti's perform better than one 580, and they cost less.

The Supercharged version costs the same as the stocks, at 230$

 

[ShyIsShy]

Lay the old girl to rest.

And instead get a GTX 560 Ti, because they dropped down another twenty bucks in price.

Yeah something like this. I had a 9800 GTX those many years ago. They're problematic. Very.

 

[ciledog]

Actually I have two SLI'd 9800 GTX's that are also overclocked.

I've had them for three years and have never had any problems.

 

[Servo Ten]

I've had this 9800 for 3 or 4 years and it never gave me any kinds of problems. Until I played Metro 2033.

 

[posepsi]

you punks who always buy new hardware should give me your old stuff

 

[BunkerBob]

Since you run only on x16 your mobo is more than likely not campatible with x16 2.0. Which means, you need a new mobo, probably ram and a new CPU, bigger powersupply.

But hey this is all me guessing because from what I've been seeing x16 is being retired rather rapidly as you can get a 470 GTX for less then 180 USD which is on 2.0 format and even the bloodied nose edge of the lastest run on 2.1 now. So yeah... Unless you know your mobo's spec's you may be screwed.

I've had this 9800 for 3 or 4 years and it never gave me any kinds of problems. Until I played Metro 2033.

You probably killed it with a shiv to its heart.

On a side note if you can push more than 60 fps on any game, congratulations. You have frames that can never be detected by the naked eye.

 

[Slergh]

NOOOOOOOOO

BUT THERE'S GOOD NEWS

THEY LAUGHED WHEN I GOT THE EXTENDED WARRANTY

THEY LAUGHED BUT WHO'S LAUGHING NOW??!!??!!

They are. Why? 9800 IS OLD. Crappy. I bet that if they get it to repairs they will either toss it out the window and replace with slightly better or worse card depending on what they have in stock.

 

[Servo Ten]

I didn't get my 9800 fixed and I know perfectly well it's an ancient card. Not like it matters since I now have a gtx 560. This can get a lock. Done matter is done.