[Renrinken]

Here my pickle. First of all I use a Radeon 9800 pro. One day while surfing the net my screen just sent black. Assumed it froze so I reset and went back to what I was doing. Perhaps 15 minutes later same thing happened. But this time I realize my computer wasnt actually frozen. Everything was running perfectly fine. It just the screen was black, I swiched out the monitors but same result.

Upon next restart it black screen right on start up and continued to. I got visuals back while doing VGA settings in F8 start up. I opened up computer cleaned out my ram and video card to make sure it isnt a dust issue. I noticed the video card sort of had a odd burnt smell to it.

After tinkering awhile I discovered something. My computer does not black screen after I uninstalled the video card drivers. With them off I can use any resolution I need and even watch low quality videos. I attemped to reinstall the drivers about 5+ times and even used alternate drivers but all resulted in same black screen at start up. I assume this isnt normal. Also none of the accelation works on the card. So it leads me to ask can a video card partially burn out ?

[Sami27]

I think that might be possible as it might have been partially damaged,I don't think it can be partially burned,only a full burn
You can always buy one at Newegg

[Renrinken]

The concept sort seems odd myself. I plan to get a new video card tomorrow just making sure that it was damaged and not something else.

One thing that bothers me is on a different forum someone said that I should not be running my computer on this semi-working video card but didnt really explain why. Is it dangerous to keep running my computer in its current state ?

[Leec65]

Have you looked at your PSU if it is getting bad then you will not get full power to your card and could cause some issues