i quote from another OC Forum
``I had stalled taking the motherboard into the store I bought it from because I needed my computer for uni and having my GPU propped up by a box wasnt really affecting me too much. Today i decided to test one more time whether the PCI-E slot was really to blame, so i moved the card down to the 8x slot. My computer wouldn't POST past 0x62 unless i propped the card up to stop it sagging, just like in the 16x slot. Bad news! Now that I had proven that is was not the motherboard but the graphics card to blame I decided I would see what was causing the problem...
there's a 3 page thread about the Sapphire 7970 ``Sagging `` in the PCI slot and for some people it causes the card to fail, it'll only work again if you prop up the end of the card.
my card sagged too (about an inch) and i propped it up after the 2nd day i had it, i did some work on my pc and thus i removed the prop a day before the card blew.
so i'm wondering if my card actually blew !
but according to B****** my card is dead, yes but maybe the card sags too much in their PC as well and they're thinking the same as me.
i removed the support from the far end of the card the previous night, and it instantly drooped back down about an inch, the card was dead the next morning at start up.
it's maybe nothing but it's a bit odd
``I had stalled taking the motherboard into the store I bought it from because I needed my computer for uni and having my GPU propped up by a box wasnt really affecting me too much. Today i decided to test one more time whether the PCI-E slot was really to blame, so i moved the card down to the 8x slot. My computer wouldn't POST past 0x62 unless i propped the card up to stop it sagging, just like in the 16x slot. Bad news! Now that I had proven that is was not the motherboard but the graphics card to blame I decided I would see what was causing the problem...
there's a 3 page thread about the Sapphire 7970 ``Sagging `` in the PCI slot and for some people it causes the card to fail, it'll only work again if you prop up the end of the card.
my card sagged too (about an inch) and i propped it up after the 2nd day i had it, i did some work on my pc and thus i removed the prop a day before the card blew.
so i'm wondering if my card actually blew !
but according to B****** my card is dead, yes but maybe the card sags too much in their PC as well and they're thinking the same as me. i removed the support from the far end of the card the previous night, and it instantly drooped back down about an inch, the card was dead the next morning at start up.
it's maybe nothing but it's a bit odd
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