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Has my 8800GTX given up?

vygec

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Everything running fine until this morning..kids started moaning, 'dad it's got funny lines/flashing bits on monitor!'
Taken a look, at the time, it was still in Windows, although running in 4bit in lowest resolution. tried restarting, reseating card, different monitor with a different dvi cable.no change. (lines/flashing cursors were on display before windows booted up).
tried again this evening, now it wont display anything on either monitor.
safe to assume the card is at fault? the machine boots up fine, hdisk is ticking away as normal, just no display. havent got a spare card to try.

so if it is new card time, dont want to spend more than £100. what card will be compatible with my existing setup?
Ta.
 
You could get an ATI Radeon HD 4870 for about £40 on the MM or eBay. That's a big step up from an 8800.

OR Personally i'd stretch my budget a bit and get a 5850 (£120-£160).
Definitely sounds like it's gone though... You could put it in the oven, see if that fixes it.
 
Thanks, your reply looked quite respective until you mentioned the oven!
You gotta be kidding right?! :)
 
Strip the card, clean the compound off and stick in the oven on gas mark 6 for 10 minutes.. it will work again! I've done this to a 8800GTX, 8800GTS and a ps3 which were all dead and are all now very much alive.
 
ok, will give this a go.
when you say strip the card, is this a case of just taking off the heatsink?
never had to do this before, so im assuming that this is screwed on?
 
yes it is screwed on, just unscrew all the screws taking note of which one came from where and i remove any plastic bits i can like the plastic round the fan connector. i stick them on pyrex dishes in the oven, something like the lid of a casserole dish.

10 mins at 200c should do the trick, this works where cards have dry joints in the original solder.

the solder melts at roughly 190c so 10 mins at 200c is enough to get the solder to melt slighty and reform any joints which have went over time.
 
WOOHOO....It only worked boys :D
200c, around 12minutes. let it cool, put it all back together again, now boots up again!!
no artifacts or flashing cursors.
so is this a temporary fix, or can i expect it go down again at some point, as the 8800 hasnt let me down for like 5+ years now.
still cant believe this actually worked!
 
Wehey! Glad it's all fine and dandy now!
It should last for as long as it did before, 5 years.

Yea people generally go "LOL WUT" when you tell them to whack a graphics card in the oven and it works again.
 
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