Dead 5850?

[Bergkamp]

So, the other day I got my Zalman VF3000 cooler and installed it all seemingly painlessly. All heatsinks in place, with thermal grease where appropriate etc.

Plugged the card into the computer and started it up.... No POST. The motherboard goes through the normal checks flashing through the cpu and ram leds before hanging at the vga led. There is no output at all from the card.

I reseated the card several times and have made sure that both 6 pin connections are secure. I'm not sure what I could have done to the card to kill it, so any suggestions are welcome.

 

[GJ02]

maybe a static shock killed it ?
maybe, i dont know

 

[Randomface74]

did u reconnect the power?

 

[Bergkamp]

Yea, power connections are all fine. Can't imagine a static charge has done for it cos I ground myself regularly and work in a pretty static free environment (I think so anyway) but I know it's a possiblity.

 

[anuraj]

You may have not have enough power to run the new fan (feel free to bash me I'm not that great with my GPU knowledge).

 

[Mr Krugga]

You may have not have enough power to run the new fan (feel free to bash me I'm not that great with my GPU knowledge).

LOL

I don't believe you could kill your card by a static shock, if you did, RMA the card.

Are you sure you didn't damage anything installing the heatsink? Or maybe removing the old one?

 

[GJ02]

do the fans spin on the cooler ?
do gfx cards work like cpus in the way the system wont boot if a cpu fan isnt connected?
what im saying is, cooler maybe faulty and card wont post and has safley shut itself down ? ? ?
if that sort of thing happens ( i dont know )

 

[anuraj]

LOL

I don't believe you could kill your card by a static shock, if you did, RMA the card.

Are you sure you didn't damage anything installing the heatsink? Or maybe removing the old one?

I was thinking about damage on installation and uninstallation but he said it went smoothly so I thought it couldn't have been that (thanks for the bashing).

 

[Bergkamp]

The fans on it run fine, and can be increased/decreased with the fanmate 2 thing

Just noticed on closer inspection that the standoffs for the FET heatsink don't seem to be doing their job properly and there might be slight contact with the board... Possible short?

 

[Mr Krugga]

It's not the fans then. Have you got RAM heatsinks installed as well? Did you try other slots on the mobo by any chance?

 

[anuraj]

I know you could have touched it in the wrong place unless you can touch all parts of a gpu without causing any damage it.

 

[Mr Krugga]

Take the heatsink off and reseat it, you may or may not find the cause.

 

[Bergkamp]

Reseated, but no joy. Too late to try now but I think I'll try the stock cooler tomorrow, not that I'm holding out much hope. The new one might be causing something I just can't find.