On 01/03/2014, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > This morning my PC greeted me with a few simple beeps - one long and > three short. It then booted but the screen was blank. I reseated the > video card and nothing changed. I then pulled some of the RAM and it > booted without a probelm. Put hte ram back in and it seems to be working > fine. I have double checked the manual and the beeps mean video card > failure. > > Been a few years since I bought any PC gear. What are the current > standards in video cards? Assuming that I need to get one, I would like > to get something intending primarily to use it with Photoshop. I am > currently using an NVidia GTS 250 with 1 gig of RAM - probably pretty > rudimentary by current standards. But, of course, I don't want to shell > out an arm and a leg...
My machine did this just before the (ASUS) motherboard went belly up. Don't buy a card yet, just use the onboard video for a while, assuming it is there. Or you may be eligible to join the "two cards, no computer" club. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
