How did you kill your video card?

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Sad story: v-mod gone wrong. Looks like my pot. was bad (The thing was burnt after I hit power.) Took my 9800 with it. Now I think I will wait till the next price drop and get a 9800 pro.

e_t
 
never actually killed anyone and therefore im not [H]ard when it comes to video cards

fried enough other hardware though :)
 
<------ dumb-ass

Frozen card trick to remove ramsinks... worked like a charm! Also took off 3 ramchips :eek:

Oh well, that Full Original ATI 8500 was a nice card, ran 330/664 flawlessly (sigh)

But it's ok.. Ive got a nice new AIW 9600 Pro that seems to have a TON of room for ocing :D
 
I went to the toilet for same sweet, sweet bowel-empting. When the deed was done I came back to find that my GF4 Ti4200 had fried itself in my absence.

Does that count?
 
Originally posted by eloj
I went to the toilet for same sweet, sweet bowel-empting. When the deed was done I came back to find that my GF4 Ti4200 had fried itself in my absence.

Does that count?
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only if it wasn't running at stock speeds.
 
1. 9700pro - Died in shim removal gone bad

2. 9500np>9700- Died after 1u heatsink mod (worked for a while but I got greedy and messed with it more :confused: )
 
i tore apart the core to my 9500pro when i attempted to remove a heatsink that was glued to it...
 
shim removal (actually my dad borked it), scraped off the extra glue i coudln't get off with goo-gone (will never use that stuff again, it smells SO bad and is totally oily) and acetone... my dad was holding the razor at an angle and slightly scratched the PCB, nothing major, but i can't get itno windows anymore :(
AIW VE right now :\
 
Originally posted by edit_text
Share your stories.

Sad story: v-mod gone wrong. Looks like my pot. was bad (The thing was burnt after I hit power.) Took my 9800 with it. Now I think I will wait till the next price drop and get a 9800 pro.

e_t
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Volt mods scare the hell out me, I never had the balls to do one not even on my old radeon LE ( i'm no good with a soldering iron ).


Although i don't think it counts i almost killed my Ti 4200 ( with AS3 ) But after cleaning it few times it worked again and i knocked a capacitor of my voodoo 3 PCI 2000.


But i have killed four motherboards and five CPU's.

EDIT : Added ( K ) on nock
 
poking around inside my case and snapped a capacitor of my old Ti4200 somehow, still worked until I tried to play any games
 
Pulling the spacer off of my perfectly good 9700pro. The knife scraped/cut 2 traces on the chip rendering it useless. Damned good card that got trashed. All efforts to repair were unsuccessful.
 
trying to remove the hsf from my radeon 8500 - most recent

a lot actually, but most of them are killed by removing the heatsink/replacing heatsink

last night i tried voltmodding the other radeon 8500 and nearly got killed. the pot is bad and allows the core voltage to get up at 2.6v. stock was 1.6 something. lucky that i have the multimeter attached:)
 
I've never killed a video card.

BUT in the last month, I've killed 5 motherboards, 3 CPUs and at least 3gb of RAM.

Overclocking....what an expensive addiction.:D
 
I'm glad I'm not the one who has had a bad pot. (Hmm... anyways.) It did finally get me to mounting a HS on my 4200. Now she sits pretty with a stock p4 HS and 80mm fan (and the core will only hit 315).

e_t
 
Just playing a game on my 9800Pro with 9800XT bios and the screen turned all white and blue shapes...then it locked up.

Thought maybe it overheated...then I smelled that burnt electronic smell....
turned off the PC and opened the case, found a chip has burned up and fallen off the PCB.

card was wicked hot...replaced it with my spare 9600XT and thePC's running...case temp also went down 10'c...
 
Main reason why i dont mess with my videocard as far as extreme overclocking or adding 3rd party cooling.
 
Tried the freezing trick with an old ti4800SE. Got all of the ram sinks off sucessfully except for the last pair... a memory chip came off with it. :(
 
First time I had a computer open (an old 233MHz heap of crap) I was removing the old video card (s3 trio v64+) and replacing it with some other crap, and I slipped. Good thing I was going to throw it away anyway!
 
Originally posted by hypertexel
I havent killed my video cards. They are working well. :)
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Why post then? :rolleyes:

Ive managed to kill a Voodoo4. :) I didn't Oc though. It was more of a shorting out when my hand slid across it. :(
 
Hehe - I was doing the ghetto 7volt fan mod when the yellow sort of slid out, swung backwards and hit a solder point on the bottom of the card...it welded itself to the thing...no good. It was one of them Voodoo cards with large PCBs.
 
1)killed geforce2mx200 with a vmod that worked for like 2 weeks but was putting a little over 3.3 volts in to the core stock was 2volts.
2)kill geforce2mx400 when my water cooling driped on it
3)killed my 7500 trying to take the heatsink off of it
4)killed the ram on a geforce4mx440 435core and 815mem
5)killed my ti4400 with a vmod the head sink had a gap in it
 
My brother grabbed my hand while I was adjusting the AA and I had RadClocker installed, damn feature in the app which sets the RAM and CPU speed the same on my 9000Pro, the damn thing jacked up the core by 50mhz with a crappy H/S and Fan
 
I also came close to killing my 9700p when I removed the shim..

Took it off w/ a dull razor blade without any hitches.. or so i thought. Weeks later I went back in to lap the gpu block cause my core overclocks stunk and when I was cleaning the old TIM off it I noticed one of the resistors(?) on the core had come off on the q-tip. I must have hit it with the razor blade originally and then the qtip was enough to finally get it to come off.

After cursing myself for a while I was able to tape it back on with a tiny strand of scotch tape, then I put a tiny dab of conductive paint from a window defogger kit at each end of the thing, (the component, whatever it is, is about the size of 3 grains of sand stacked together), and then a triangle of electrical tape over it and then capped off with a bit of foam from a beer can cozy to keep pressure on it under the sink.. heh. Works okay now but I found out my gpu is just a poor overclocker tho as I still get a crummy core o/c on it. O well, live and learn.
 
I had a GF3 with terrible 2d image quality and there was a mod to remove the RF filters on them. I removed 5 out of the 6, then tried to remove the sixth and cut a trace to resistor, so everything was pink next time I booted. So, I used a conductive pen fix that, which worked. Then I did a bad flash and screwed it all up. That's when I bought a GFti4200. hehe
 
I had one of the origional 9500 non-pros the ones built in the 9700PRO PCB, did the softmod, and overclocked that card for a while, had it for quite a while and it went after a while, so im assuming the high clock speeds etc threw it off.
 
pot = potentiometer

These are the same things that are used for analog volume control on a stereo.

e_t
 
Knocked off one of the little resistors on the back of my Ti-4200 when I was trying to take the heatsink off... prolley could have put it back on if I could've found the damn thing =/
Though I only had it for a week before that, and the store took it back with out asking anything :D
 
it wasn't me.

it was colonel mustard in the library with the candlestick!

although last night i did dream that i was messing with the heatsink on my computer and i looked down and all i saw was my CPU still attached to my heatsink i was holding in my hand with the pins in the motherboard.
 
the ram on my rage pro 8 mb was loose, so for years of taping it on, I got a geforce 256 and killed it by trashcan... Not quite what you were expecting but I've killed around 6 keyboards with various liquids :D
 
Originally posted by HRslammR
it wasn't me.

it was colonel mustard in the library with the candlestick!

although last night i did dream that i was messing with the heatsink on my computer and i looked down and all i saw was my CPU still attached to my heatsink i was holding in my hand with the pins in the motherboard.
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lol, you've been working on the computer too long.

What they DO do in real life is, you take off the heatsink, look down at the mobo "where's my CPU?" and find it stuck to the heatsink, with the pins having ripped right out of the socket:rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by jagec
lol, you've been working on the computer too long.

What they DO do in real life is, you take off the heatsink, look down at the mobo "where's my CPU?" and find it stuck to the heatsink, with the pins having ripped right out of the socket:rolleyes:
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Oh how I know that scenario ALL to WELL.:mad: :( :rolleyes:
 
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