Rad 9800Pro 128mb Dead?

N3M · 25 Mar 2006 at 20:45

it posts into windows... and performs normally, but there are atrifacts covering the screen, tired flashing it to the new bios and still no joy

this mean its ready for the bin?

welshtom · 25 Mar 2006 at 20:59

or donate it to me to try and revive

NeptuneUK · 25 Mar 2006 at 21:02

fan failed?

Pulseammo · 25 Mar 2006 at 21:29

One of my friends had his fan break down on his. He ran it for a few months before it totally started to freeze up. When I finally got to it the thermal paste was absolutely solid. Basically had to sit there for an hour carefully trying to get it all off.

Anyway, in the end we dumped an arctic cooler on it that I had laying about the house and it cleared up all of the heat issues. Its still working 6 months later. Hopefully it shouldn't go wrong any time soon, touch wood.

Might wanna see if you can get an arctic cooler for it if you don't have the cash to spend on a new card, of course this isnt garunteed to work and could end up just wasting cash that coulda gone towards a new card.

N3M · 25 Mar 2006 at 21:33

ive put on arctic silver2..and re-sat everything but the artifacts are there from the start....the moment i turn the pc on, which makes me think its not heat related as its not given a chance....

N

Sparky191 · 25 Mar 2006 at 22:27

A lot of older 9700/9800pros seem to die, compared to GF4's.

Cyber-Mav · 25 Mar 2006 at 22:59

its probably a dead card. the 9800 cards are known to have a very high failure rate.

N3M · 26 Mar 2006 at 00:03

Ahh well, its areally good looking card also (hercules) so i might frame it

welshtom · 26 Mar 2006 at 00:15

welshtom said:
or donate it to me to try and revive

m3csl2004 · 26 Mar 2006 at 00:19

tom leave the poor lad alone

try lowering the clocks, worked for mine (ram will only run at 275

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welshtom · 26 Mar 2006 at 00:24

bah i just like the shiny copper heatsinks

m3csl2004 · 26 Mar 2006 at 17:38

welshtom said:
bah i just like the shiny copper heatsinks

lol - btw mate you may be able to have a look at mine 1 day

welshtom · 26 Mar 2006 at 18:13

im not on a good run atm, failed to fix the last 2 in a row. one was impossible though.

Tom

Sparky191 · 26 Mar 2006 at 18:28

welshtom said:
im not on a good run atm, failed to fix the last 2 in a row. one was impossible though.

Tom

What did you do to fix the one that you did fix?

welshtom · 26 Mar 2006 at 20:00

send it back to whoever wanted it fixed / bench the life out of it / sell

Sparky191 · 26 Mar 2006 at 20:08

How did that fix it? :confused:

welshtom · 26 Mar 2006 at 20:52

oh i see,

just soldered a few components back on etc. bridge broken tracks.

obv if the ram or core is borked then no one can do anything

Bizarre · 26 Mar 2006 at 21:20

welshtom said:
im not on a good run atm, failed to fix the last 2 in a row. one was impossible though.

Sparky191 said:
What did you do to fix the one that you did fix

welshtom said:
oh i see,

just soldered a few components back on etc. bridge broken tracks.

Sorry, but is it just me or did you say you failed to fix it? must have been a typo eh?

welshtom · 26 Mar 2006 at 21:26

the last two i failed to fix

WatchTower · 26 Mar 2006 at 23:36

N3M said:
it posts into windows... and performs normally, but there are atrifacts covering the screen, tired flashing it to the new bios and still no joy

this mean its ready for the bin?

I have same card and have same problems it's gotten worse over time it's not down to over heating as I'ver never overclocked mine and I also put a better cooler on it. The cooler did not help. So I guess it's just a badly designed card if they common for this.