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Help me rescue my graphics card

Chris Beard

Chris Beard

Chris Beard

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Hi All,

I have an HD5770 that's been toast for a few months and I'd like to try and fix it.

The card overheated in my quest for silence and now doesn't error with a beep code or prevent windows from loading but presents a blank screen to the monitor. From memory the monitor doesn't go to sleep so a signal is being sent.

I'm willing to try anything to fix the card and have:

1 oven
1 soldering iron
1 roll of solder

Help me fix my graphics card - all suggestions welcome.

Cheers,
Chris.
 
Just RMA it, unless the caps have gone pop a soldering iron is useless in this situation.

In the future just use MSI Afterburner to set the fan profiles and clock speeds. I think my 5770 goes down to 20% at which point it's unaudioable above the over parts of my system. Just out of interest what were you doing to it exactly?
 
I switched the passive HR03a round from over the card (being cooled by the slow fan on the processor) to the front of the card where it wasn't enough to keep cooling it.

I'd unvolted the card but just underestimated the heat load.
 
I hope you learnt your lesson. At least it wasn't a hugely expensive card. What a great consolation ;). But in honesty let us know how the oven method goes. It's worth a try to be honest but I wouldn't get your hopes up too much.
 
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Yep, there's a slim chance that reflashing your firmware may make the card boot, but as Freddie1980 said, it's a long shot. It's possible that the firmware was corrupted while the card was overheating... which is why your not getting a POST screen.

I'd do this before breaking out the soldering iron, just be sure to double check you are flashing the correct card.
 
How is it lying?

The card Overheated Cus it was poorly cooled.... Not his fault exactly its the company who made the coolers fault...

Eather way it can be rma'd for nowt and he will have a card again...

If he doesnt wana RMA i will have it and RMA it myself.

Plus if it died from overheating re solerdering it in the oven wont help.
 
I think the point is that it shouldn't have overheated from poor cooling. I had after market coolers on my 4850s, and once I forgot to plug the fans back on them. They were like this for a good few days, my PC kept shutting down and I didn't get what was going on, I then realised it was after I'd been playing games for a bit, so checked the graphics cards, realised the fans weren't plugged in, and then I figured out that the PC was shutting off to protect them from heat damage.

That's how they should work.
 
Thanks for the heads up guys. Does anyone know a good guide for flashing the firmware. Will need some hand-holding, really really do not want to flash the wrong one as my other HD5770 is running like a dream. The fried one was always a little scetchy anyway.

Cheers,
Chris.
 
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