PCI-E 16x Slot faulty?

[Jasard]

So my PC decided to not boot up with the beep code suggesting faulty graphics card or vga ram. I switched the card over to the other PCI-E 16x slot which runs at 4x and it boots up fine. I've tried resetting bios.

Motherboard is Asus P5K-E WiFi.

It worked fine yesterday.

Any thoughts before I borrow a card to test in there?

[zombie@computer]

switch it back to its orignal slot and retry ?

[Jasard]

Hah, I have . As a side question, what could cause the slot to die? Graphics card is overclocked (8800 GTX), voltage spike perhaps?

[zombie@computer]

a slot dieing is an inevitability. Theres tons of things you can do to speed it up. Overclocking is one of them i guess. Wear and tear is always going to be the biggest cause afaik.

[Jasard]

Fair enough, just an excuse to upgrade I guess.


Edit: Yup, slots dead. Tried a different card. Bugger. Stop gap motherboard before next upgrade then I guess.