Did sleep mode fry my graphics card? - PC-BSD Forums

Sapper · #1 08-10-2012, 04:40 AM

I was playing around with my new desktop install today (PC-BSD 9.0 64 bit) and left the house for a few hours. The computer went to sleep while I was out - I didn't realize it was preset for that. When I got home, the only way I could wake it was to press the power button on the case. This woke the cpu up, but my monitor remained blank-screen with a flashing power light (no signal).

I have since rebooted the machine several times, even going so far as to unplug it, and I still cannot get any signal to the monitor. I'm going to pull the video card out and reseat it, but I don't know what that will accomplish. What could have happened here? The card is an nvidia GTX 460. I was using the nvidia drivers and everything was working great until it went to sleep. The monitor works when plugged into another PC, so it isn't that.

kmoore134 · #2 08-10-2012, 02:06 PM

That seems rather wild, software-wise there shouldn't be anything
capable of "frying" your card to the point where you can't even get the
BIOS screen to show up. Did you cold boot it? I.E. unplug it completely?

Sapper · #3 08-11-2012, 06:16 PM

Unplugging the computer itself (and monitor) didn't fix the problem. I haven't had much time to work on it though. My laptop gets me by for now until I can find some spare time to sit down with the desktop and see what's going on. I may throw in an old ATI Radeon card I have to get at least into the BIOS setup to poke around. I've had a similar problem before that had to do with USB devices being plugged/unplugged during a suspend/hibernate, but nothing like that happened here. I'll report back when I get some time to devote to it - maybe tomorrow.