problem Video trouble on game computer

[MaxBurn]

Having trouble on my gaming computer. Started when I was playing games but progressed into presenting shortly after I booted to windows desktop. Basically after a while the screen just goes out and monitor says detecting signal, at the same time I can hear the video card fan ramp up and down a couple times. What I don't get is the BIOS settings warning that the computer locked up and changed back to defaults after I reset the computer.

I'm thinking video card, thoughts?

Gigabyte HD6950
Gigabyte X58A-UD5
Xeon W3530
G.Skill F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI XMS spec 1600
Corsair CMPSU-950TX

No overclock.

 

[Mercutio]

That does sound like video card in this case, but you might want to investigate a different display as well. My 27" Dell crapped out in a similar fashion.

 

[MaxBurn]

Well I should have mentioned that is on a KVM and the other two machines don't have that type of problem. What one dell laptop does have is a problem initially picking up video sometimes but never a problem maintaining it. I guess I could try it direct.

 

[MaxBurn]

Thinking back over the last four gaming video cards I have had I believe this is the third that died on me. At least gigabyte is still in business though, powercolor and BFG went under when those cards died.

 

[CougTek]

At least gigabyte is still in business though, powercolor and BFG went under when those cards died.

PowerColor seems fine. When did you read it went under?

 

[MaxBurn]

I remembered wrong, it was Connect3D

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1378874&highlight=x1950xtx

 

[Mercutio]

Gaming video cards are kind of like Italian sports cars, I think. They're awesome when they work, but it's just as likely that they'll suck and die.

 

[MaxBurn]

Gigabyte sent an email a while back saying they received it but I got nothing saying they sent out a replacement. They don't appear to have a way to check RMA status on line either. Do they usually take a long time?

 

[Chewy509]

Last RMA I did to Gigabyte for a video card was 6 weeks...

 

[mubs]

My only RMA experience with GB in circa 2005 was bad. They just sent a flaky video card back saying nothing was wrong with it.

 

[Chewy509]

I did have to call them 4 weeks after sending it in to find out what was happening (apparently nothing), so requested that a replacement card be sent out immediately as waiting 4 weeks was certainly too long. Still took another 2 phone calls and another 2 weeks to get something out, but they did send out a brand new card as a replacement. This however was way back when ATi 9600XTs were still only weeks old...

My advise, if it's been over 2 weeks, call them to find out what is happening.