Okay... well I purchased this card off of these forums for a friend's system I was helping him build before he went off to college. We got it finished and it worked fine for almost a month. Then one day he brought it over to my house for updates(he doesn't have the internet) and a little lan gaming. When I put in the network cable(bumped it) the screen got all "blocky". I instantly turned the power off, and thought the card must've came lose from the slot. So I took it out and reinserted it, (mobo does have a "locking mechanism" for the agp slot) and it worked fine for a while. Later it started doing it again, and I took off a copper ramsink that was attached to the back of the card (RAM) thinking it might've been against one of the computer's ram clips that was pushing it up and out of the slot. Now it seems to boot up every time blocky(will take pics) and the screen is slightly legible, but not. I removed and re-attached the silencer, and that did nothing. I put my 6600gt in his system to be 100% sure it was the card, and everything worked fine. Then I put his card in my system to get the same result. I'm wondering what could've (and could be) happened to the card to make it do this.. any ideas? Can take pics. We ordered a new 9600xt, but I want to make sure nothing in his system is "damaging" the card in some way.. so the next one doesn't end up the same way.
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Help: Radeon 9700 Pro
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JackieChanIsGOD
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Yeah, you should have at least got a 9800pro.
And like skr said, it probably shorted on something.
The card wasn't overclocked from the previous owner, was it?
And like skr said, it probably shorted on something.
The card wasn't overclocked from the previous owner, was it?
JackieChanIsGOD said:
Guessing by all the ramsinks - it was. However, it didn't seem to be damaged, because as I said it worked fine for a month
- also the power cord was inserted with the pc off and power drained. And lastly, the choice of 9600xt was his - he wanted to buy a card brand new (because of what happened here) and didn't want to spend anything over $80. His system isn't for hardcore gaming (total cost was like $300) - just for him to have a computer for college.Did you make sure you were grouned? Sometimes there is current still there even if the computer is unplugged. I've seen it, or rather I've done it , a few times before.
Nothing you can really do about it now, its probably ruined and if the card was working for a month before this happened you cant blame on the seller really.
, a few times before.Nothing you can really do about it now, its probably ruined and if the card was working for a month before this happened you cant blame on the seller really.
Skrying said:Did you make sure you were grouned? Sometimes there is current still there even if the computer is unplugged. I've seen it, or rather I've done it
Nothing you can really do about it now, its probably ruined and if the card was working for a month before this happened you cant blame on the seller really.
Agreed. I questioned whether that could've happened also, but the first time it happened, nobody had been inside the PC since it'd originally been built.