esd damage on my video card?

[Bismac]

can anyone tell me the symptoms?
i accidentally touched my video card while cleaning my pc.

[gingerbee]

dude in all my days. has anyone here seen esd. did you get a shock?

[Bismac]

nope, but i read somewhere that you cant even feel it?right?

[KaptCrunch]

you sure hell will hear the snap of the spark if was static discharaged..... most likly you jarred to card out of shocket

always after moving a case..... check that all cards are seated good

[martin_metal_88]

Seriously, these are myth. To be true the shock have to be a bit big so you can feel it. these day component are made good enough ( if you have good component ) to resist to esd. It can happen but it's like to have a DOA CPU, rare...really rare, kind of thing you see 1 time in a life.

Ask for more.

[martin_metal_88]

Ho I forget! Welcome to HWC!!!

[Sushi Warrior]

The shock does NOT have to be enough to feel (or hear) it. I believe you can kill something with static with 1/3 of the discharge needed to feel it. You could have just done something wrong installing it. Is the fan spinning? Is anything beeping/flashing?

[Bismac]

no flashing and beeping so far though and yes its still spinning.. but does esd damage symptoms immediately be felt right away?
sorry guys im just paranoid because it a gtx 295 coop which is freaking expensive..

[gingerbee]

if fan is spinning but no video a lot of the time your power supply is not giving enough power on the 12v rail so no picture this is just a guess. becasue your not telling us what the problem are so far?

[Sushi Warrior]

Could also be a monitor, cable, mobo, cpu... anything problem.