mikey_rules
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2003
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My XFX Radeon 4770 has always been sensitive to dust and begins to idle at around 50°C after 6 months of applying new paste and cleaning the fan. Well, yesterday I came home and I noticed it was idling around 70°C with the auto-fan turned up mighty high. I cleaned up the card, new paste and all and now my computer won't even POST. The NumLock turns on and then the keyboard is unresponsive, monitor never powers on, and harddrives aren't loading Windows.
I've tried swapping PCIE bays, different PSU power cables. Nothing. It will always boot with onboard video, but ONLY if I've taken the 4770 out completely. I'm looking to get a friend's video card to see if it'll boot from it. Before I rule out that my loyal, 6 year old card is dead could I have missed something? Could it be that I seated the heatsink wrong, etc?
Thanks in advance.
I've tried swapping PCIE bays, different PSU power cables. Nothing. It will always boot with onboard video, but ONLY if I've taken the 4770 out completely. I'm looking to get a friend's video card to see if it'll boot from it. Before I rule out that my loyal, 6 year old card is dead could I have missed something? Could it be that I seated the heatsink wrong, etc?
Thanks in advance.