Did my video card die?

In article , Metspitzer wrote:
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:01:51 +0800, Man-wai Chang
wrote:

I plugged the HDMI port into the on board port and still no video. I
took out the video card HD 6970 and plugged the HDMI cable into the
onboard and it works.

Update to the latest Catalyst.
Open the case while playing games to see if it's heat issue

I played Skyrim about 10 hours yesterday and it never happened again.
First time I have played a game other than Internet Spades in a couple
of years.

Look at that Dragon..........wait that's a butterfly.

Me thinks reseatting your card did the trick Those large heavy cards sometimes
work their way loose.

Me thinks reseatting your card did the trick Those large heavy cards sometimes
work their way loose.

Most PCIe x16 slot has a "lock" at one end of the slot... Well...

I played Skyrim about 10 hours yesterday and it never happened again.
First time I have played a game other than Internet Spades in a couple
of years.

Out of curiosity: What motherboard are you using?

On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:14:24 +0800, Man-wai Chang
wrote:

I played Skyrim about 10 hours yesterday and it never happened again.
First time I have played a game other than Internet Spades in a couple
of years.

Out of curiosity: What motherboard are you using?

Mine has a lock too. It is a Gigabyte GA-H67A-UD3H-B3.

It turns out that nothing was broken. Skyrim has a command mode key
that turns the screen black except for the cursor. Since I
accidentally hit that key I didn't know how to exit.

After trying alt tab the next time it happened I figured out what was
happening. In case anyone else is playing it is the tilde key.

It turns out that nothing was broken. Skyrim has a command mode key
that turns the screen black except for the cursor. Since I
accidentally hit that key I didn't know how to exit.

The BOSS key (for you to play the game during office hour)??? It's hard
to find this function in most modern games.

After trying alt tab the next time it happened I figured out what was
happening. In case anyone else is playing it is the tilde key.

You might wanna disable the Window$ keys on your keyboard.