Is my G4ti4200 fried...vertex and pixel shaders are jumpy

wuzzapiman · 11-21-02, 10:55 PM

its an albatron Ti4200P TURBO that has recently been acting very weird in vertex and pixel shader tests( jumpy even when not OC'd)

so when i went to put some AS3 on the core i noticed to wierd things...first off the heatsink was really lose and only had 2 pins with springs. secondly 2 opposite corners of the black outside of the core looked charred...

am i really as screwed as i think?

mbentley · 11-22-02, 06:41 AM

hmm... almost sounds like your heatsink came loose and it might have had a little bit of a heat problem... try cleaning it with 99% ispropyl alcohol all around the gpu and let it dry for a minute. then reapply the as3 very carefully, making sure not to get any on anything but the gpu heatspreader. good luck with your card but it sounds kinda bad

wuzzapiman · 11-22-02, 08:50 AM

the marks were there before i put on as3 and the paste was all on the core, not just the heatspreader so thats where i replaced it.

im putting washers between the pin and springs to get it more secure...

11-21-02, 10:55 PM	Thread Starter #1
wuzzapiman Member Join Date: Oct 2002	Is my G4ti4200 fried...vertex and pixel shaders are jumpy its an albatron Ti4200P TURBO that has recently been acting very weird in vertex and pixel shader tests( jumpy even when not OC'd) so when i went to put some AS3 on the core i noticed to wierd things...first off the heatsink was really lose and only had 2 pins with springs. secondly 2 opposite corners of the black outside of the core looked charred... am i really as screwed as i think?
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11-22-02, 06:41 AM	#2
mbentley Gloriously Lead Overclockix Chief Architect Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: indianapolis, indiana	hmm... almost sounds like your heatsink came loose and it might have had a little bit of a heat problem... try cleaning it with 99% ispropyl alcohol all around the gpu and let it dry for a minute. then reapply the as3 very carefully, making sure not to get any on anything but the gpu heatspreader. good luck with your card but it sounds kinda bad __________________ intel i5-750 -- msi p55-gd65 -- 4 x 4096mb ddr3 1600 -- msi gtx550 ti cyclone oc 1gb -- antec p182 -- ocz fatal1ty 750w -- win8 x64 intel i5-3330 -- msi z77a-gd65 -- 4 x 8gb ddr3 1600 -- intel hd graphics 2500 -- chieftec bravo ba-01b-b-b -- debian wheezy amd64 forum rules \| overclockix \| overclockers geforce survey \| mbentley.net
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11-22-02, 08:50 AM	Thread Starter #3
wuzzapiman Member Join Date: Oct 2002	the marks were there before i put on as3 and the paste was all on the core, not just the heatspreader so thats where i replaced it. im putting washers between the pin and springs to get it more secure...
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