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- Dec 15, 2009
I just came into possession of an AMD Radeon 4870 from I believe VisionTek (there's absolutely no distinguishing marks or features which is a tad frightening) judging from pics on Google Image search.
Anyway it's artifacting like crazy at POST, in BIOS, and on Bootup. D-SUB/VGA connection doesn't work at all and neither does HDMI ... just DVI at this point.
I tried the Oven Trick posted here on our forums. Set the oven to 385, removed all the heatsinks and thermal paste, and let it sit for 8 minutes. After it cooled down I reapplied everything with Arctic Silver and it's still doing the exact same thing.
One thing to note is that it takes this card upwards of 47 seconds (I timed it) to actually boot up and display an image.
With that being said, I doubt this thing is still under warranty so should I just toss it out or does anyone here have any other ideas or methods I could try?
Anyway it's artifacting like crazy at POST, in BIOS, and on Bootup. D-SUB/VGA connection doesn't work at all and neither does HDMI ... just DVI at this point.
I tried the Oven Trick posted here on our forums. Set the oven to 385, removed all the heatsinks and thermal paste, and let it sit for 8 minutes. After it cooled down I reapplied everything with Arctic Silver and it's still doing the exact same thing.
One thing to note is that it takes this card upwards of 47 seconds (I timed it) to actually boot up and display an image.
With that being said, I doubt this thing is still under warranty so should I just toss it out or does anyone here have any other ideas or methods I could try?