graphics Problem..

[kaihirst]

My mate has brought me this issue..

When I boot my PC with this graphics card, the screen displays a lot of corruption/artifacts in the form of lines and squares. The graphics card is in very good condition and doesn't seem to get hot at all.


2 x ATI Radeon XFX HD 4870 X2 2GB Graphics card running in crossfire mode..

Can anybody shed some light on this please or is it a terminal fault that cannot be fixed..

thanks

Kai

 

[kaihirst]

in your opinion is it a terminal fault or a fixable one..

 

[kaihirst]

Oven trick? Never heard of it..

 

[kaihirst]

christ thats extreme!!!!!!

Think ill declare these as Dead and surce a couple of new ones for him...

 

[kaihirst]

thing is though. Ive put these on my test bench and ran a GPU integrity and mapping test and, im getting some wierd results from it. Really not normal from both of them. Personally, I thing hes had crappy cooling and turned it down to shut it up a little and in the process, killed these lovely looking cards...

 

[kaihirst]

he has. also there are VRAM errors all accross both boards. Maybe cooking them could be the case as this tends to work? Any opinions on this?

 

[kaihirst]

Thats why im really reluctant to do it. Card Cooking is a bit neadertal and akin to taking a lump hammer to a panel dent to me.

to me, what I think is that the system has got way to hot, but not enough to cause a shut down or memory dump, the VRAM has got dry joints all over an its faulted....