Radeon X1600 broken!?

I am having some major issues with my X1600("Made by ATI"), in fact, I
think it may be dead and/or permanently broken.

Here's the deal:

It will no longer output a video signal to the monitor when the PC is
turned on. If I unplug it from the card and plug it in to the
computer's onboard video output, I get signal. When going to the
Device Manger, it doesn't even show up.

Get this, when turned on, the card's fan spins at an unbelievable
rate, we're talking LOUDER than the system's fans. It was doing this
before it died, but it'd only do it for a few seconds(back when it was
working). Now, it just spins that fan like that the entire time(even
though it's not putting out any signal).

I have tried messing with the PC's bios, no luck. I have borrowed a
friend's Radeon X1650, it works fine. I have put this broken X1600 in
other machines, same results(no signal).

I tried getting some sort of warranty support from ATI but, of course,
the warranty was no longer active.

Is my card just dead?

Any thoughts and/or suggestions would be much appreciated!

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>I am having some major issues with my X1600("Made by ATI"), in fact, I
> think it may be dead and/or permanently broken.
>
> Here's the deal:
>
> It will no longer output a video signal to the monitor when the PC is
> turned on. If I unplug it from the card and plug it in to the
> computer's onboard video output, I get signal. When going to the
> Device Manger, it doesn't even show up.
>
> Get this, when turned on, the card's fan spins at an unbelievable
> rate, we're talking LOUDER than the system's fans. It was doing this
> before it died, but it'd only do it for a few seconds(back when it was
> working). Now, it just spins that fan like that the entire time(even
> though it's not putting out any signal).
>
> I have tried messing with the PC's bios, no luck. I have borrowed a
> friend's Radeon X1650, it works fine. I have put this broken X1600 in
> other machines, same results(no signal).
>
> I tried getting some sort of warranty support from ATI but, of course,
> the warranty was no longer active.
>
> Is my card just dead?
>
> Any thoughts and/or suggestions would be much appreciated!
>


Your fan (cooling) on the video card might be failing/failed.

I have the:
512MB DDR3 VisionTek ATI Radeon X1600XT , XTREME GAMER'S EDITION

http://www.smokeypoint.com/My_PC.htm

and I had to hang a red lights fan (using tye wraps) blowing outside air on to the X1600XT. The fan is mounted directly in front of the cooling fins and about two inches away on my x1600xt. Plus my custom case has a transparant cover with a blue lights fan built into the cover. So that fan blows air into the area just above my x1600. key word here is "blows outside air into the case" directed across my VisionTek ATI.

Why did I have to do this extra fan thing ? Well the Vision Tek ATI would allow my PC to boot up just fine then the x1600 would go into thermal runaway and the monitor would go blank - no video signal from the card.
I've had the fans there since July 06 and the PC has never failed to deliver 'tox on' gaming speeds I like, each and every time I turn on my PC.

So you might think about replacing your 1600 fan and or on card cooling system.

imho I'd try the extra fan thing first - just in case the card has failed big time - you don't waste a lot of money, just fan money.

Hope this helps,

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