Dead x800xt?

[Jacobman]

I have come upon a so called dead x800xt. My buddy said he put it in a ASrock sata-2 board and it fried. I put it in my spare and it tells me to connect the power cable, which is ofcourse plugged in. So i clean any AS5 spots on it thinking that its messing it up but it still says i need to connect the cable. Any ideas as to what the prob is or is it time to bring out the dremel and make a keychain? It has a x850xt cooler on it.

http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/634/793/4935.jpg

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[Jacobman]

Bump!!

[Jacobman]

Bump

[chris64]

Send it to viperjohn. JOHNHILLIG@EARTHLINK.NET

Hes the master and might be able to work with it and salvage it for ya.

Thats 2 expensive of a card to trash it.

[JU571N]

Check the molex connector, it might be burnt. If that's the case all you have to do is get a new one and it should be good to go.

[Jacobman]

Nothing is burnt on it though, i emailed viper john so ill see what he says. :)

[Vengance_01]

I had a simular problem with an old 9700Pro, not sure what happened, but no matter what I did I could not get it to live. Because I bought it refurb from newegg it was dead. It did last about 2 years :) Curious to see what viper says. Post a solution if he gives ya one for future reference.

[ViperJohn]

I have come upon a so called dead x800xt. My buddy said he put it in a ASrock sata-2 board and it fried. I put it in my spare and it tells me to connect the power cable, which is ofcourse plugged in.

That is the #1 or #2 most common failure mode for x8xx cards. The card is a goner as even ATI just replaces card RMA'ed with that failure.

Viper

[El<(')>Maxi]

Rip X800 :)

[chris64]

Well ...... I can feel ur pain.


Find a way to rma it would be my next move.

[Jacobman]

Isnt the warrenty voided due to the new cooler?

[DDR-PIII]

yep, try and find one in the classifieds, people replace them with aftermarket, purchaes one, slap it on, then send it on its way :P