This is more a cautionary story than asking for advise, though if you have any that would be most welcome too (the situation seems pretty hopeless to me).
My former main graphics card, an 8800GT now sits in my secondary PC folding, as you can see below, and this secondary machine also acts as a NAS. I wanted to add a nice Raid5 array to my NAS so I purchased a very reasonably priced raid pci-x card on fleabay, and it arrived this morning.
The case of this secondary PC is a bit tight, so it neccessitated the 8800GT be removed from the case, to add the extra hard drive and cable everything up.
Everything looks good, the PC goes on. Boots into windows, the raid array is working, happy times. Suddenly there is a slightly strange smell, and the display driver has to reboot. Oh dear. I quickly shut off the PC, and go to remove the graphics card. OUCH! That is hot hot hot hot hot. I must have not connected the fan from the Vortexx Neo to the motherboard properly. No worries, thats easily fixed. So I do that and turn it back on again. This time the PC gets into windows and then the picture vanishes.
It turns out that the fan was plugged in just fine, but somehow when I had taken the 8800GT out of the case, a small plastic clip had wedged itself in the Vortexx Neo's fan, rendering it unable to rotate and causing the overheating. Now of course I have rectified the problem and the fan is spinning fine, but I fear it is too late, I have not been able to get a picture out of the card.
I probably would have got away with this cockup, but F@H is set to run at startup, so immediately I booted into windows, the GPU was loaded up 100%. I think its probably dead, but I'm not sure. How hot does something have to be to actually render completely dead rather than just a temporary fail. What is my best course of action from here? Has anyone ever had an overheated GPU come back to life? (Give me some hope guys! I was top HeXus producer on F@H for all of a day!)
The joy of PC maintenance and carelessness! Adding a hard drive and raid card leads to GPU meltdown![]()


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