weird boot screen, help!

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Limp Gawd
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hi, i recently installed a water swiftech apex + water cooling kit on my computer. My computer was running 100% stable before i installed this kit. Now i get this:

and this when my system boots:

i was very careful not to damage anything, but i think now i might have, i dont know what else could cause this. any1 have any ideas what it could be?
 
this used to happen to me on my mobo... i remember fixing it with a bios reflash and a reformat.. ir my hdd died.. dont really remember.

all i remember is little green smile faces everywhere.. freakin' wierd
 
SippieCup said:
this used to happen to me on my mobo... i remember fixing it with a bios reflash and a reformat.. ir my hdd died.. dont really remember.

all i remember is little green smile faces everywhere.. freakin' wierd
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i just tried flashing my bios and then i tried booting with my hard drives disconnected to no avail.
 
silent-circuit said:
Yeah, looks like heavy artifacting. Did you OC your video card, or did its fan die?
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no, i just installed a water cooling kit, and the card is not hot at all when i touch it, much cooler then when i had the old copper heatsink and fan, and its overclocked using rivatuner (only driver level so it souldnt effect it when it boots).
 
Don't know what to tell you, then. Maybe you physically damaged it while mounting the waterblock? All those little surface mounted components are easy to break. Of course, then I'd expect it to not work at all, not artifact. Have another video card you could try in the system?
 
silent-circuit said:
Don't know what to tell you, then. Maybe you physically damaged it while mounting the waterblock? All those little surface mounted components are easy to break. Of course, then I'd expect it to not work at all, not artifact. Have another video card you could try in the system?
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yea, that was ny train of thought too, and unfortuently i dont have another pci-e card to try.
 
are you sure your video card memory chips are cooled ? you mention adding water cooling, was that just for the core of the gpu ? as you also need to keep the ram chips cool with ram heatsinks.

to me the bios screen problem looks like video card problem, possibly overheating memory chips on the video card.

I am assuming it was a gpu water cooling solution ? or was it just cpu cooling that you did ? if it was just cpu then I think you may have knocked/damaged somethg whilst messing inside your pc, if it was gpu water cooling then taking the gpu original cooler off will expose the ram and by adding just a gpu block will 9 times out of 10 lead to problems with the videocard ram unless they are covered over with heatsinks or similar.
 
EVIL-SCOTSMAN said:
are you sure your video card memory chips are cooled ? you mention adding water cooling, was that just for the core of the gpu ? as you also need to keep the ram chips cool with ram heatsinks.

to me the bios screen problem looks like video card problem, possibly overheating memory chips on the video card.
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all of the memory chips on the gpu have copper heatsinks on them, and yes, this i installed water cooling on the cpu, gpu and chipset.
 
Ok, it was just a thought, now this leads to the shit part, hunting down the cause and fix if that is possible.
 
ok, i left my system on for 1 hour now, i just inspected the cooling system which seems to be working fine, but, the pump is not pushing as much water as it should.but it still doesnt explain why the card gets artifacts as soon as it boots. room temp (78 for me) shouldnt be hot enough for the card to artifact like that should it?
 
i also tried putting a multitude a fans around it to blow cool it even more, but it still artifacts, it can't be from overheating
 
I had this same thing happen to a Radeon 9200 I cleaned about a year ago. Before I took the system apart and cleaned it everything was fine. After cleaning I put the 9200 back in and had the same thing your image shows. During the cleaning I somehow manage to kill the card. My guess is ESD got to a critical part. Probably the same thing in your situation considering you were handling the card to put the waterblock on as I did to clean mine.
 
silent-circuit said:
Too much pressure on the core? Doubtful.
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i talked to a friend that had a similar problem, he said that it could be that i installed the gpu water block to tightly, i tried loosening it, nothing happened. But now i think maybe when i installed the gpu ram heatsinks by pushing them onto the chips that could have damaged it.
 
ryan_975 said:
I had this same thing happen to a Radeon 9200 I cleaned about a year ago. Before I took the system apart and cleaned it everything was fine. After cleaning I put the 9200 back in and had the same thing your image shows. During the cleaning I somehow manage to kill the card. My guess is ESD got to a critical part. Probably the same thing in your situation considering you were handling the card to put the waterblock on as I did to clean mine.
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yeah, i might need to get a new card now. and mines out of warenty by 1 month :( :(
 
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