Chris,
Often, vido cards can sense whether their cooling mechanisms are active or
not through the voltage supplied to its fan. Some are more elegant than
others. For example ATI will inhibit certain features to keep their cards
cooler until the problem is resolved. Others may not.
I've received the F7 message in the past, but letting my system reboot on
its own (sometimes you have to wait a few minutes) has cured it.
Ostensibly, the bios gathered the requisite info needed from whatever
configuration change the card passed along that is hanging the boot process.
Otherwise, your best bet will lay with the card vendor to see if that is a
feature of their card. If you have a secondary system, it may pay to swap
cards there to see if you can get a successful boot there.
Best of luck!
"chris" <xophero.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8a19baa6.0401011206.6513d9c6@posting.google.com...
> so i got my new system up and running and everything was working fine
> for about a week then my system crashed. windows froze up and there
> was no motion from the cursor and ctrl-alt-del did not work. so i
> rebooted and the post halted with "25" displayed and no video. i
> opened the case, checked all connections, cleared cmos, and rebooted
> again. same deal but i noticed the fan on my video card
> (3DForceFX5600-256) was not spinning... When i remove the card and
> boot the post continues (after brief beeping due to no video card i
> assume) to "7F", which i assume is waiting for a keystroke, though i
> cant tell because of no video. Does this definitley mean that the card
> is dead? It was a new card and only used for a week. Any help would be
> appreciated.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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