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February 9th, 2025 10:09

Aurora R4, 6THX2 Nvidia 680 with Gigabyte cooler died. Looking for replacement

Alienware Aurora R4

Alienware Aurora R4

My old R4 is not showing anything on the screens after booting. I only get one beep. When it has been viewable I ran the epsa and the card passed but on subsequent boots nothing showing. I have had some Blue screen screen crashes lately and they all quote a Nvidia driver so believe the card is now defective.

Is there any chance for me to find something that would fit into this system.

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February 10th, 2025 13:59

You can get a simple Dell oem card to test R4

list of R4 oem video cards

Video / Graphics Card, Graphics, Advanced Micro Devices, TAHITI, with new Windows 8/10 logo

3GB DDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7950
Video / Graphics Card, Graphics, BARTS, Parker

1GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 6870
Video / Graphics Card, Graphics, NV, D14P2-40, Diskette Label

Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Dual
Video / Graphics Card, Graphics, NV, D14P2-40, G

Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
Video / Graphics Card, Graphics, NV, GTX, 690, with new Windows 8/10 logo

4GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 6 90
Video / Graphics Card, Graphics, PITCAIRN XT, with new Windows 8/10 logo

Dual 2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7 870
Video / Graphics CRD, GRPHC, GTX760, DUAL

Dual 1.5GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 SLI
Video / Graphics Graphics card, AMD Radeon, HD, 6870, BMP

Single AMD Radeon HD 6870
Video / Graphics Graphics card, AMD Radeon

AMD Radeon(TM) HD 8870 2GB GDDR5
Video / Graphics Graphics card, AMD, AMD Radeon

2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7870
Video / Graphics Graphics card, AMD, AMD Radeon, 7870, EM, with new Windows 8/10 logo

Dual 2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7 870
Video / Graphics Graphics card, AMD, AMD Radeon, HD
Video / Graphics Graphics card, AMD, AMD Radeon, HD, 7950, with new Windows 8/10 logo

3GB DDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7950
Video / Graphics Graphics card, AMD, BRDG, DUAL

Dual ATI Radeon HD 5670
Video / Graphics Graphics card, AMD, E2-50

AMD Radeon(TM) R9 290Xwith 4G B GDDR5
Video / Graphics Graphics card, AMD, HD8990

AMD Radeon HD 8990
Video / Graphics Graphics card, AMD, P1-70

AMD Radeon(TM) HD R9 270 2GB G DDR5
Video / Graphics Graphics card, AMD, R9-270, PRIME, MW

AMD Radeon(TM) R9 270 with 2GB GDDR5 (standard)
Video / Graphics Graphics card, AMD, TAHITI
Video / Graphics Graphics card, BRDG, made by Flextronics, SLI

Dual 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760Ti SLI
Video / Graphics Graphics card, E121N

1.5GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
Video / Graphics Graphics card, GTX780
Video / Graphics Graphics card, GTX555

1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 5 55
Video / Graphics Graphics card, GTX, 560, AUR4

1.25GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GT X 560 Ti
Video / Graphics Graphics card, GTX, 580, AUR4
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NV, TITAN

NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX(TM) T ITAN Zwith 12GB GDDR5 -Dual GPU Card
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, 660, TI, with new Windows 8/10 logo

1.5GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, 660, TI

Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, 680, with new Windows 8/10 logo

2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 6 80
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, D14U-20, D
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, GTX
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, GTX

1.25GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GT X 560 Ti
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, GTX660, with new Windows 8/10 logo, V2

Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Dual
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, GTX, 690, with new Windows 8/10 logo

Card, Graphics, NV, GTX, 69 0, WIN8
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, GTX, 760, TI

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Tiwith 2G GDDR5
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, GTX, 780, V2

NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX 780 with 3GB GDDR5
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, GTX

Card, Graphics, Nvidia, GT X, 555
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, GTX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 1.5GB G DDR5
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, GTX

NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX 770 with 2GB GDDR5
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA, GTX

NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX 780 3GB GDDR5
Video / Graphics Graphics card, NVIDIA

Dual 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA SLI
Video / Graphics Graphics card, PITCAIRN XT

2GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7870

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February 9th, 2025 15:26

I would replace CMOs battery with a new coin battery CR2032 and clear CMOs settings by motherboard jumper. It is too early to pin the no video issue on GTX680.  If you have a simple PCIe video card you could use that to test R4 too.

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February 10th, 2025 05:01

Can you tell me what version PCIe card I need. I do not have one so would need to purchase one.

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