Did you try swapping out the gfx card? If the GPU dies, the bios will freak out and give an error code (usually beep pattern). Since that's where the problem started, thats the first thing that should be tested.

SO THIS TOPIC IS OVER?

SO THIS TOPIC IS OVER?

Bah! Even if he already bought a new system, the old one is still sitting there. If it can be fixed for cheap/free, well.. 2 working systems is better than one right?

A lotta machines don't come with beepers anymore (just like the occasionally still useful floppy drives). I guess the manufacturers don't figure the home user is going bother with troubleshooting and a professional tech can just plug one in as needed.

If you want to see if the system is salvageable you can strip down the board, leaving one stick of memory, processor (and fan), power and header connections, and an old PCI gfx card. Slap a monitor on the gfx cards port and fire it up. If it gives you a POST screen, the systems still good. If not, take it out with the trash.

Even if it's dead, you should certainly keep the hard drive, power supply, maybe even the memory and optical drives. You can use the old hard drive in your new system for additional storage or backups and the rest of the parts make great spares since they're pretty standard across modern computers. If the memory is the same type, you can upgrade your new machine further with it.

if you fix it run a server off of it lol

:O I had a ati radion 9200, I turned VPU recovery off since the first time it did what it did. I played gmod with that card for 2-3 months until it died : P, Apparently it doesn't last long when playing gmod. Yeah the way I fixed it after the VPU recovery was taking out the card and use the onboard gpu, then leave it out for awhile then put it back in(with the safety procedures of course or the pc would be dead). Then it works normally for some reason. The card is now broken but still works, hardly *darn you power surges in the winter*