Dead Ti4200

[Wayne]

Well, last night I decided to put my Zalman VGA heatsink on my graphics card and guess what. I managed to destroy teh card. 100 quid worth of video card down the bog.

I am unhappy. This means I have to spend money on another card. I might just go for a little 8MB card. :(

[Wayne]

On the plus side, the rest of my PC is almost silent. Amazingly quiet. I really wish I had've got that cooler to work properly.

[Mattooooo]

Yea, they're a bstrd to fit ain't they? I couldn't undo the little screws on mine to move the little arm things. In the end I just used a screwedriver like a crowbar to shove em into place. Its scrapped the whole thiing up but its on. ;)

[Wayne]

A friend has taken sympathy on me and has offered a free GeForce MX 4. Ah well, what can you do?

[Clarksy]

How did you destroy it?

Did it over heat? Does the BIOS fail to POST? Did it ever work with the Zalman on it?

[Wayne]

I think I damaged a memory chip.
I boots and some of teh characters are incorrect.
When it gets to the dual boot selection, som eletter are in caps and some are in lower case. seems quite random.

It doesnt go much farther than that.

[Clarksy]

And it doesnt work if you put the stock heatsink and fan back on?

[Wayne]

I cant put it back on. I had to cut the little plastic bits to get it off!

I'm currently using a S3 Virge or something. PCI card. It struggles with windows xp's interface.:eek:

:mad:

[Clarksy]

Ahh! S3's I remember those...!

I was just wondering if you had shorted anything on the card with the Heastink, or during the installation. How about removing the Zalman and seeing if your PC will POST - but not for too long or it will overheat.

This is all a shot in the dark - but the number of times i have thought something is dead and had it miraculously work by stripping it back down are uncountable.

[Wayne]

I stripped everything off. Booted with JUST the graphics card in without any heatsink, fan etc. Exact same results. The card is efo wrecked and is in the bin.

[Kynoch]

Sorry to hear about you killing your card.
But i wanna be cheeky and ask if you would be doing anything with the old heatsink and fan that originally came with the card other then throwing it in the bin?
I need one to replace one that just died a couple of weeks back, would you be willing to part with it?

Thanks

[Wayne]

Yeah, no problem.

[Kynoch]

You got a PM. :)

[Wayne]

That was bloody fast.

[Kynoch]

only coz i dont have a life.