What up dome dizzles. Mah shit broke.
My 80 GB IDE drive has a recent history of randomly quitting every so often, but after a small readjustment of the IDE cable, works fine. X$ So anyway, I thought this time I would make an especially good readjustment and take out my video card (it's seriously that long) and make sure the ribbon was well seated. OK, done. I plug in my video card, screw it back in, and i turn on my computer... and guess what!
BLACK SCREEN'd.
No video output whatsoever.
So I take my other AGP 4x/8x card, put it in, still nothing. I grab my 7800GS and bike over to my friends house (at 11 pm, I pissed off his grandma) and put my card in... Works fine. Now knowing it's not my video card that's the problem, what could make my computer fuck up like this? I'm strongly thinking it is the motherboard. One reason I this this is because I had forgotten to pull out my power cable from my power supply or at least turn the power supply off. X[[[[[[[[[ Stupid, I know. But hopefully it's something fixable. I'd hate to have to use a fourth motherboard.
Help would be great, not only in trying to fix it but searchnig for a replacement.
I need something socket 478, with 4 DDR DIMM slots, and at least 3 PCI slots and 1 AGP 8x slot. SATAII is a big plus.
thanks