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madcow235
01-22-04, 02:43 PM
After a week of messing with broken pumps i hooked up my new maze4 vga and went to boot my computer only to get artifacts on the way to windows and those smartVPU errors, i think this is a good thing since the card actually boots. Anyways I believe a small small drop of water fell on the backside of my card and connected some stuff it shouldnt have. There is a small white electronic scorchy mark in that corner but i cleaned it off with a good alcohol bath, to displace the water and all that pizazz. Now I did this but still got heavy artification. Is there a possibility that the card is absolutely dead, i doubt it is since it still boots. Any help would be appreciated immensely

anwar1337
01-22-04, 02:44 PM
if it boots , its not dead and if u get into windows and u see more then the 16 colors it isnt , what is artification?

madcow235
01-22-04, 02:47 PM
Like pixels that are colored wrong. Right after the boot logo thing i get 2 yellow dots. Also it switches to software rendering which si not good

da-gokesta
01-22-04, 03:55 PM
smell it. My 9700 pro smelled like smoke right after i got some artifacts and my VRM had gone. That might have been the scorch mark you saw

Newbie_Doo
01-22-04, 04:13 PM
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