Artifacting!!!

[Dr. Spankenstein]

I don't think we are talking about the scratch on the top of the chips, we mean the contacts under the chip are much more delicate than say your average IC that has the soldered down legs. Couple of contacts were probably broken with the prying action.

No POST now?!? or you just can't see it happening without the VGA? Are you HDD spinning up?

 

[AphexDreamer]

Yeah everything is OK, just that now with the GPU installed I get no post on my Monitor.

Everything is in right.

I don't know if my HD is spinning, I don't think they are. I get the same Beeb code as if I had no Graphics Card installed.

 

[AphexDreamer]

Anyone know were I can find out what the Red Light on the card indicates.

When I turn my PC on, the Red Light Blinks like 5 times and then stops and the MB give me the No GPU Beeb sequence.

 

[jbunch07]

ouch man sounds like a fried card but i could be wrong

 

[AphexDreamer]

Well some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that the card was in fact broken. I don't know if I fried it or if I damaged it myself, but its gone.

The good news is that it hadn't been a year since I purchased it from Newegg and I RMAed it

I just sent it back today and going to get a bran new one.

I want to try to use this cooler again, but with all this bad luck I have had with it should I? I did pay money for it. This time I'll try with the RAM sink the other way.

 

[Th3-R3as0n]

You got lucky there mate.. I think you might have applied to much thermal paste and got some onto the core.. Or like everyone else has stated a scratch on the card anyways man.. Glad you getting a new one Happy speeling

 

[jbunch07]

its good thing you could rma it!

 

[AphexDreamer]

You know what I think it was. I don't think it was the thermale paste getting everywhere if anything it was not contacting the core well enough, the only thing that tells me it was not the core over heating is because Riva tuner never recorded going over 45C.

My guess toward the Artifacting is that the GDDR4 was overheating, due to the thermal padding touching the wrong side of the RAM chip. I really need to make sure what the problem was so I don't repeat it on the new card.

If it was a scratch, that won't happen again, if its something with the thermal paste f!@# and if its because the cooler suck then double F!@#.

Also something to note, when I took off the heatsink for the last time, the freaking metal square ring came off!!! For no reason what so ever, its like the glue wore off or something!! it just fell right off??? I love AMD, but that looks like cheap manufacturing to me.

Oh well, thanks for the input guys.

 

[AsRock]

Well besides what everyone else has already said. I had issue's with my 2900XT in my ABit mobo were you plug the card in and would not post and had to resit it differently. However i never had the issue with the ASUS mobo but MAYBE the 7900GT was a thicker v card which made this happen ?.


Other wise as most said remove that thermal greese make sure it all gone. and use MX-2 this time around and make sure you do not over tighten.

 

[Chris_Ramseyer]

The only time I have seen something like this happen is when the cooler was installed with too much pressure on the card.

I would also NEVER put thermal material on a video card that conducts electricity -ever.

 

[Steevo]

I used AC5 on my X1800XT and it still runs fine, just a very small amount and checked the seating. I even lapped down the standoff legs of the MOSFET cooler and used it on that to cool them better than the thermal tape.




Thermal tape has no directionality other than taking off the plastic covering the adhesive, but it won't work without doing that. So it is pretty failsafe.

 

[AphexDreamer]

Well they are out of stock of the 1GB Pro so they said I will be giving an item of equal value/performance or my money back. Kool thing is, if I get my money back thats like $330 and I'll be able to buy an HD3870X2!!!!

Bad thing is my HD2900 Cooler I just bought will be useless to me and so I just wasted my money on it.

 

[Chris_Ramseyer]

I would be willing you bet you could sell it pretty quickly in the forums. If not then just think of it like you spent 30 dollars and stepped up to an X2. lucky bastard!