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How to reanimate GPU?
Claggy:
--- Quote from: skildude on 18 Feb 2011, 11:33:00 am ---I think those oily spots on the memory chips is ominous. thats probably what blew. Just for kicks try and smell them. See if thats what was burning
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That's my thought too,
Claggy
KarVi:
I would check the mem chips as well, there shouldn't be oil on them anyway, but it could me moisture from thermal paste, as some pastes give of moisture.
One other thing to check is the motherboard.
I have had a what i thought was a dead GFX-card, turn out to be a defective motherboard.
It was back in the AGP/PCI/ISA days, and the board would boot an old TSeng ET4000 card on ISA, but not anything on AGP (bought a cheapo temporary AGP card as replacement).
New motherboard, and the GFX card came back to life.
Perhaps you have similar problem, that doesn't prevent internal GFX card from working.
A defective supply for the PCI-E slots could be the sinner.
In the motherboard I had before the current one, the GFX card would not work in the top PCI-E slot (after leaky watercooling....), but worked fine in the second PCI-E slot. The board eventually died, I guess because of damage from the water/coolant, but thats another story.
SciManStev:
Fear not. We are going to get you a new card one way or the other. I know full well how important it is to be connected to what you are programming.
Steve
Raistmer:
Thanks all for suggestions. Unfortunately cards is dead. I cleaned it, reinstalled - new shortcircuits...
For now I installed secondary GPU, will decompose this one again to see where shortcircuits were...
Jason G:
--- Quote from: Raistmer on 18 Feb 2011, 05:50:03 pm --- will decompose this one again to see where shortcircuits were...
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If nothing still immediately obvious, but there is dirt/dust/oil, there is a thorough cleaning cycle I can describe for a last ditch attempt, though the problem IMO would be connections inside the chips come adrift, or cracked balls under the GPU (thernal aging).
For my 2 cents worth, your time is more valuable to ATi card users right now than to rescuing some 2 generation old card. Hopefully the dudes putting together a kitty toward a newer one will insiist on a Youtube video of violent destruction of the dead one...and ship you a newer one ... Then you'd have your remaining older one & a current generation one to work with, which I can vouch for helps a lot.
Jason
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