First post, by psaez
Can a broken graphics card make the system go crazy?
I thought I break my motherboard (https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/dfi-ca64-tc ) after changing capacitors on it, because I have these sypmthomps:
First it boots correctly, after some minutes:
- crackling sounds on speaker
- CD constantly making startup noise
- black screen
After that, it does the same but in seconds after start instead of minutes. If it waits shut down for some time, then it takes again some minutes to start with the problems.
Then, one friend, ask me to try it with another graphics card, because I also replaced a capacitor on that gforce 4 mx 440... and for the moment, it is working with an nvidia 5200 agp with no problems (still need to test with hard drives, tualatin etc.. but doesn't have the components at this place)
I just can't understand how a graphics card can cause that.
Maybe it is not possible and simply the motherboard is working again by a miracle and will suddenly fail in some hours/days?