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Stackmm
02-07-06, 01:13 AM
I recently replaced the stock fan/heatsink on my 9800xt that ive had for the last couple years. I replaced it because the graphics card started crashing and then I noticed that the fan was no longer working. I replaced it with a Zalman Fatal1ty FS-V7. The installation was simple and seemed to be working just fine.

After installing everything worked fine and I even noticed a few degree drop. A day later I was playing Guild Wars on about the max settings, like I always have. All of a sudden the grapics went nuts and little boxes of different colors started showing up. It would go off and on and eventually I couldnt make out anything. Now It has gotten to the point where I cant get anything to show up when I reboot.

Anyone know if this is a serious hardware problem and if its fixable?

Thanks

night8jim
02-07-06, 04:00 AM
I got that when mine was overheating, try resitting the cooler and what Paste did you use?

Stackmm
02-07-06, 12:25 PM
just the paste that it came with

night8jim
02-11-06, 05:51 AM
Try pussting some as5 on it, that did the trick for me