Reanimating dead VGA. When the VGA is inserted in PCI-e slot, motherboard won't start booting. No visible reason for the card to not work?

Try this. It worked for one guy, it might work for you. hackaday.com/2009/05/31/ghetto-electroni... but by the way you describe it, it may be a problem with the vga power supply.It might be sucking too much power from the motherboard, causing it to go into a failsafe shutdown mode, which would explain the stopped fans.

Might there be a separate power input on the vga directly from the PSU? If so, that would be another connection to check. Hope this helps.

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