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Radeon X1600 no video signal, broken and no way to fix? - 2007/10/06 01:39
I am having some major issues with my Radeon X1600 graphics card made by ATI, in fact, I think it may be dead and/or permanently broken. So 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 Radeon 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I tried getting some sort of warranty support from ATI but, of course, the warranty was no longer active.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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