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Zalman vf700-cu and pink lines dots on screen.
Hi,
I've just installed a zalman vf700-cu cooler on my ati radeon 9800 pro. Everything seems to have gone well but...after booting up my computer i have pink dotted squares on some places on my screen. Looks a little like a smudged inked from a stamp. Did i ruine/broke my videocard in the proces or did i connect something wrong...i didn't/don't know how to connect the power so i connected the vf700 fan connecter to the 12V multi conncenter wich came with the package and connected the multi conector to the power supply of my computer. Any help will be mcu appreciated...TIA, Rick. |
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Zalman vf700-cu and pink lines dots on screen.
Rick schrieb:
Hi, I've just installed a zalman vf700-cu cooler on my ati radeon 9800 pro. Everything seems to have gone well but...after booting up my computer i have pink dotted squares on some places on my screen. Looks a little like a smudged inked from a stamp. Well, if you encounter graphic problems it seems not everything has gone well, duh. Did you, by any chance apply the Ram-heatsinks?If so, how much force did you use to apply them to the chips?Chances are you either broke some of the Ram on your card or you chipped a piece of the GPU core, enjoy your Radeon 9800 paperweight. Cheers,Thomas. |
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Zalman vf700-cu and pink lines dots on screen.
Well, if you encounter graphic problems it seems not everything has
gone well, duh. Did you, by any chance apply the Ram-heatsinks?If so, how much force did you use to apply them to the chips?Chances are you either broke some of the Ram on your card or you chipped a piece of the GPU core, enjoy your Radeon 9800 paperweight. Cheers,Thomas. That has to be the most condescending response I've read yet; for God sakes give the guy a break. Anyways Rick, as for your video card, I honestly don't have the answer as I wish I did. But I'll make an obvious guess and say that you've damaged something during the change over. |
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Zalman vf700-cu and pink lines dots on screen.
That has to be the most condescending response I've read yet; for God
sakes give the guy a break. Anyways Rick, as for your video card, I honestly don't have the answer as I wish I did. But I'll make an obvious guess and say that you've damaged something during the change over. Thanx for your reaction...i had to put my tv-card in another slot and that isn't working either proparly right now. I hope i can fix something by reassigning interrupt and maybe this will straighten out my videocard also...wishful thinking;-). Otherwise i buy the second hand card from my brother...he has the same and is thinking about upgrading. Rick. |
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Zalman vf700-cu and pink lines dots on screen.
"Rick" wrote in message ... Hi, I've just installed a zalman vf700-cu cooler on my ati radeon 9800 pro. Everything seems to have gone well but...after booting up my computer i have pink dotted squares on some places on my screen. Looks a little like a smudged inked from a stamp. Did i ruine/broke my videocard in the proces or did i connect something wrong...i didn't/don't know how to connect the power so i connected the vf700 fan connecter to the 12V multi conncenter wich came with the package and connected the multi conector to the power supply of my computer. Any help will be mcu appreciated...TIA, Rick. Sounds like overheating to me. Do you have any apps that will show you GPU temps? ATI Tool is a good one to use if you want to monitor and see how hot the thing is getting. If it runs overheated for a little while, it will be ok. For too long though (like a several hour gaming session) it can permanently hurt the card. |
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Zalman vf700-cu and pink lines dots on screen.
"HockeyTownUSA" magma at comcast dot net wrote in message ... "Rick" wrote in message ... Hi, I've just installed a zalman vf700-cu cooler on my ati radeon 9800 pro. Everything seems to have gone well but...after booting up my computer i have pink dotted squares on some places on my screen. Looks a little like a smudged inked from a stamp. Did i ruine/broke my videocard in the proces or did i connect something wrong...i didn't/don't know how to connect the power so i connected the vf700 fan connecter to the 12V multi conncenter wich came with the package and connected the multi conector to the power supply of my computer. Any help will be mcu appreciated...TIA, Rick. Sounds like overheating to me. Do you have any apps that will show you GPU temps? ATI Tool is a good one to use if you want to monitor and see how hot the thing is getting. If it runs overheated for a little while, it will be ok. For too long though (like a several hour gaming session) it can permanently hurt the card. Oh yeah, also touch the copper heatsink while running a graphics intensive program, but be careful not to burn yourself. If it is hot, then its doing its job, if it is not very hot, then it isn't seated properly, or thermal grease isn't applied properly. |
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Zalman vf700-cu and pink lines dots on screen.
I've just installed a zalman vf700-cu cooler on my ati radeon 9800 pro.
Everything seems to have gone well but...after booting up my computer i have pink dotted squares on some places on my screen. Looks a little like a smudged inked from a stamp. Did i ruine/broke my videocard in the proces or did i connect something wrong...i didn't/don't know how to connect the power so i connected the vf700 fan connecter to the 12V multi conncenter wich came with the package and connected the multi conector to the power supply of my computer. Any help will be mcu appreciated...TIA, Rick. Sounds like overheating to me. Do you have any apps that will show you GPU temps? ATI Tool is a good one to use if you want to monitor and see how hot the thing is getting. If it runs overheated for a little while, it will be ok. For too long though (like a several hour gaming session) it can permanently hurt the card. Oh yeah, also touch the copper heatsink while running a graphics intensive program, but be careful not to burn yourself. If it is hot, then its doing its job, if it is not very hot, then it isn't seated properly, or thermal grease isn't applied properly. The problem already occurs when i boot up cold. At the splash screen from my bios/mobo. Probably not overheating...maybe i put it to tight on, so i'm going to put is loser and check it out again...maybe without the fan...keep the suggestions coming. TIA, Rick. |
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