Have I blown up my new gfx card?
Friday, February 25th, 2005 - 5:30pm
I put a 6600 GT in my machine. I didn't know I had to put a metal brace on the back of the card to stop the fan falling off.
The fan became detached partially from the card. At the same time, I think, the computer reset itself. (The fan is now attached properly using the metal brace.)
Now when I turn the computer on the screen has purple blocks all over it. During Windows' loading process there's ASCII text all over the screen. Before WIndows can load I get a blue screen with white text that flashes for a .5 of a second and dissappears. It mentions something about 'newly installed'.
I've managed to get the desktop once with the card. Again the screen is covred in different colour squares and text is garbled in places. I tried uninstalling drivers and restarting, but no luck.
Is the card f*cked or is it salvageable? I'm posting using my old card and all is fine.
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long answer: probably
short answer: yes
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What he said.
A GPU or CPU can fry itself almost instantaneously without a heatsink/fan attached. I''d bet the price of a new video card that that''s what happened to yours.
I''ve never actually seen this happen because most videocard fans are pretty well attached, but what you describe sounds like a misfiring GPU.
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The fan was attached using sticky tabs, but needed the metal brace to stop it falling off.
The instructions didn''t mention the brace. It just said insert the card. I thought the brace might have been something to do with removing the old card. (Part of it looked like a spanner.)
I''m going to send ti back to the maker and say it''s faulty. Should I say it worked and then stopped or just say it didn''t work at all?
I''ll say I followed the instructions, but won''t mention the brace.
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how bizzare..I''ve never seen a GFX card shipped with a brace for the fan.. usually its secured by push pins and/or thermal tape/epoxy
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I have a older video card using a brace that goes diagnal over the heatsink. It''s wierd but they are out there.
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Just say it was DOA. Even if it worked momentarily, that''s not necessarily false.
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I told them that the colours are all messed up/graphical glitches/crashes Windows. All of which it does.
I''ll explain the what I meant by brace. I might have used the wrong term. On the back of the card (the side without the fan) there are two pins. Over the pins goes a bar. Then pressed against the bar - and secured on the top of the pins - is a \\/ shaped piece of metal. The point of it pushes down on the bar, which in turns holds the fan up.The fan is also held up by sticky pads. Its those pads which failed.
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Send it back.
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Hold on a second, I think the brace fell off when I got the card. On the first bit of metal was a little sticky pad to stop it touching the circuit board. That pad had indentations on it, even though I''d never put it on the circuit board.
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Either way it was defective. You''re not lying. Send it back
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1Dgaf, that bar should be attached when you get the card. The fact that it was not means that it was defective when it was sent to you. No videocard I''ve ever seen requires you to attach any part of the fan before installing. That''s all done at the factory.
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Yeah, I''m going to send it back. I''ve got no problem with geting forceful with them now I know it wasn''t my fault.
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