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OK, fitted an arctic cooler to my 9700 Pro today, only to put it back in my AGP slot and no boot - everything powers on, but no beeps - reseated the card several times, given it uncontended power connection from two quality supplies (one at a time obviously) and still nothing.
Removing card from slot gives the nice single beep when PC is turned on.
I've managed to break this thing getting those pushpins off...or have I missed something?
-JB
Have you tried reseting the CMOS at all?
Try booting with just 1 stick of RAM, CPU and nothing else (no hard drives, optical drives, PCI cards etc)
Else im out...:(
Hope it works.
Will
I'll give that a go, thanks.
Did you scrape the PCB or break any contacts when doing it?
Sounds like you have knocked somthing off.
The smallest thing being taken off can kill a card :(
Try refitting the artic cooler, if that doesnt work try the retail cooler again.... I remember the first time I fitted my old zalman heatpipe. Nothing came up first time, so i refitted and it worked fine after that! :)
ok...have refitted the cooler again, tried the original heatsink and fan, reset cmos, pulled out cables from every place known to mankind, and it's still not working.
I think it's definitely dead, but thanks for the help guys - we've certainly made sure :D
Did you make sure that the heatsink was fitted right the first time? as you could have cooked it....:S
Hows he gonna check that? hehe...
*Byat invents a time machine*
Just wondering if he was sure he had....as its easy enough to do with CPU's...but it was a bit of a silly thing to say all the same :P
yeah, it was definitely fine first time - decent contact with the GPU surface - must just have scraped something somewhere :-( ...just wish I could actually see where, goddamn microcircuitry!
sorry to state teh obvoius - vga cable pluged in? Ive forgot that a few times after doing various mods to my 9700 :)
tried with/without dvi/vga cables - would not having a cable actually stop a post though?
its good to see u taking it so well Byatt, was the 9700 a good performer? :)
Im thinking of getting me a new card, if i dont get enough doh for me birthday for a 5950 ultra, then a radeon will be my cheaper alternative...:(
similar thing happened to me once.
was a microscopic bit of artic silver between 2 pins on a memory chip.
Heh - you win some you lose some - this is the first thing I've ever broken out of warranty and it probably won't be the last, good to get it out of the way I suppose - was a good enough card at stock - didn't need to touch it for overclocking, so I'll never know if it was a miracle worker or not - doubt it though, heheQuote:
Originally Posted by MurphmanL