Is it possible for a graphics card to destroy a MoBo?

[Sxotty]

I had a 9500 pro, it was not modded or anything, in an ABIT NF7-S, and this morning my computer crashed while checking my email.
I had to restart b/c WinXP locked so hard it would not restart or finish physical memory dump.

I went into BIOS to turn down memory timings, I thought perhaps they were too high (although they were only on performance and I have corsair XMS that is rated much better than the boards settings). In any case the board locked in the BIOS, so I restarted again and it was dead.

I went to my friends house and put my VGA card, and 2600+ into his old MOBO, but I forgot the power connector, the board beeped and said connect the power to the 9500 pro see getting started guide or some crap.

I turned off, connected power, restarted and the board went to the POST screen, but there was no HD, so it just sat there, I turned off connected HD, and then restarted and it would not post anymore, only turn on and spin stuff up, but screen stayed blank.

The HD is now in my P4 machine and works fine (so my data is not gone).

I am worried about sticking either the CPU or Video Card into another machine b/c I don't want to fry a working system.

Any advice?

Abit NF7-S
AMD 2600+ (333)
Lite-On DVD
WD 800jb 80GB HD
Corsair 512MB 3200C2 (one stick only)
ATI 9500 pro

[Tahir2]

unlikely as this sounds, but if a CPU can kill a working system i dont see why a gfx card couldn't :cry:

[Ichneumon]

The no boot may be because the vide card with the AXP2600+ was drawing too much power from the power supply...

[Tahir2]

mm interesting stuff for me ... thanks for lettin' me know
what was the PSU rated at?

[Ichneumon]

I should have added this to my reply...

One way you can see if it is just too much power draw at boot (but perhaps after power-up there is enough juice in the psupply), is hit the reset button a half dozen times after you turn on the power... Basically give it a handful of seconds to get going. That way the hard drive will already be spun up (they use a lot more power to spin up than they do to run) and you may be able to get the system working that way.

If it does work, you should still replace the psupply as you don't want to run your system on too little juice.

[Tahir2]

hitting the reset button half a dozen times like that, could it lead to the frying of the DMI ?

[Ichneumon]

hitting the reset button half a dozen times like that, could it lead to the frying of the DMI ?

Not in my experience.
It was how I ran my 9700 on a very ancient asus p2b-s mobo for a while. It wasn't my powersupply though, in that case the mobo just couldn't handle the draw.