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I built a system recently for one of my customers. When I assemled it and turned it on, no problem. The video came up, I was able to install the OS and other programs. Everything worked fine. After delivering it to the customer he called me to let me know he couldn't get video working. His CPU fan also wouldn't work. After taking it home, disassemling and reassembling the system the fan still didn't work. After checking if the CPU fan port on the mobo was getting power with my meter, I got a little spark and now the fan is working. The video unfortunately is not. The fan spins on the video card, but no output.

So this leads me to the question, is it the mobo (since there was some trouble with the cpu fan.) or is it the video card? I rather not rma either and find out it was the other piece.

Specs:

XCLIO Windtunnel Full Tower Case
Gigabyte EP43-UD3L Motherboard
EVGA GeForce 9500 GT
Antec 550W Continuous Power Supply (Cross Fire)
Intel 2.93ghz Wolfdale Dual-core Processor
G.Skill Ripjaw 4 Gb DDR2 RAM
WD 500Gb HD
Artic Cooling Freezer 7 After Market Cooler

The only way of knowing for sure is process of elimination...

If you've got a spare GPU lying around, throw that in, see what happens.