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- Sep 27, 2004
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- Wonderland
so one of the 580 GTX hydrocoppers I have was damaged after I had some problems. I got very few responses on my first thread but I figured I'd give it a shot.
basically a small amount of coolant leaked onto the card and now the card is completely unresponsive.
I recently for a second time took the card apart, wiped everything down with alcohol, let it dry and put it back together, as far as I can see there is no visible damage, (burned caps, crossed channels or markings of any kind) but it's obviously beyond my expertise to fix.
ideal situation would be I would find someone on here who would give it a shot on fixing it, worst case they aren't able and I have to save for a few months to buy another or upgrade.
I think at this point if it can't be fixed I'll save for next gen SLI. just seems like a waste to have a card that if could be fixed would still perform fine. I was rocking 250+ mod skyrim on maxed everything (including a ridiculously modded .ini and it was smooth on my setup in sig. I guess another option would be to just buy another hydrocopper for $200 but I can probably get an aircooled variant that would do better at this point.
Anyone repair video cards out there?
basically a small amount of coolant leaked onto the card and now the card is completely unresponsive.
I recently for a second time took the card apart, wiped everything down with alcohol, let it dry and put it back together, as far as I can see there is no visible damage, (burned caps, crossed channels or markings of any kind) but it's obviously beyond my expertise to fix.
ideal situation would be I would find someone on here who would give it a shot on fixing it, worst case they aren't able and I have to save for a few months to buy another or upgrade.
I think at this point if it can't be fixed I'll save for next gen SLI. just seems like a waste to have a card that if could be fixed would still perform fine. I was rocking 250+ mod skyrim on maxed everything (including a ridiculously modded .ini and it was smooth on my setup in sig. I guess another option would be to just buy another hydrocopper for $200 but I can probably get an aircooled variant that would do better at this point.
Anyone repair video cards out there?
