Re: Did i crush my 7950 Gt GPU core !!!!!

'Paul Mathews' wrote, in part:
| /PS I Don't realy like to cross post as i want different answers from
| differnt people, bit more of a variety
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Well, I insist that you DO crosspost rather than multipost. This is not
just about you. From your newest post you still seem to have
misunderstandings about heatsinks. But I'm not going to contribute if you
insist on making things harder for everyone, even yourself. Getting the
same answer from a variety of responders is just a waste of time. What you
don't seem to know about crossposting is that if a user reads a cross-posted
message in one newsgroup, it appears FOR THAT USER already marked as read in
the other newsgroups. If multiple identical messages are multi-posted, the
duplicated-marked-as-unread messages represent an irritating loss of time to
knowledgeable users participate regularly in these groups.

Phil Weldon

"Paul Mathews" <> wrote in message
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| Yeah i was thinking it might be a thermal Non contact to core thing,
| but in windows it showed 50c in the drivers section. So maybe it was a
| short with the copper touching somthing. I just don't know.
|
| Anyway I am going to LAP the copper base of the NV silencer and the
| part where it contacts the Alluminim fins and hopefully that would
| increase the thermal conductivity. At the moment the base looks VERY
| VERY NO SMOOTH. I can see , not shinny at all.
|
| Do you think lapping where the alluminim fins to the GPU cooler will
| be of any benifit. How does that work ?
|
| Also going to remove the themal tape and put some different one to fit
| the ram chips better.
|
| But before i do that I am going to put some paper in the GPU and close
| the cooler and see what kind of hold it has on the paper if its good i
| don't know what the problem is. Anyway after its all finished will
| post back to see what happens. If it works i should get atleast a 5c
| inprovment in TEMPS, that would be good if it works as well
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| Thanks all.
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| /PS I Don't realy like to cross post as i want different answers from
| differnt people, bit more of a variety
|
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| Thanks all.
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| On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:56:01 GMT, "Phil Weldon"
| <> wrote:
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| >'Paul Mathews' wrote:
| >| I put the old Stock cooler back on and it works now
| >|
| >|
| >| I have no idea why the NV silencer don't work though. It just won't
| >| for some reason even though the temps are 10c cooler with it on !!!!
| >|
| >| Ill have to wait till they release ones thats compatible with it i
| >| guess. Or make mine compatible if i can eer figure out why it don't
| >| work that is
| >|
| >|
| >|
| >| Any ideas other than heat ???
| >_____
| >
| >I'm glad your display adapter did not suffer permanent damage. The most
| >likely explanation is that you did not get good mechanical contact
between
| >the heatsink and the GPU, or improperly applied thermal compound. As I
| >pointed out to your identical post in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.
Next
| >time you post, CROSSPOST rather than multi-post as you did with this
thread.
| >You posted the same question in alt.comp.overclocking. If you had
| >crossposted, then all of the replies would have been visible on both
| >newsgroups, thus allowing interchange of information and reducing
| >duplication of effort.
| >
| >Phil Weldon
| >
| >"Paul Mathews" <> wrote in message
| >news:.. .
| >|
| >|
| >| I put the old Stock cooler back on and it works now
| >|
| >|
| >| I have no idea why the NV silencer don't work though. It just won't
| >| for some reason even though the temps are 10c cooler with it on !!!!
| >|
| >| Ill have to wait till they release ones thats compatible with it i
| >| guess. Or make mine compatible if i can eer figure out why it don't
| >| work that is
| >|
| >|
| >|
| >| Any ideas other than heat ???
| >|
| >|
| >| Thanks.
| >|
| >|
| >|
| >| On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:25:42 +1100, Paul Mathews <> wrote:
| >|
| >| >
| >| >Its powered off the Card and the TEMP in windows says 50c.
| >| >
| >| >I just ran 3dmark 2006 and it ran fine without any sign their was a
| >| >problem. Its one of those rare times its booted properly
| >| >
| >| >If it was a ram problem would it run 3dmark2006 at all ?
| >| >
| >| >I was reading that Soundblaster cards can share the IRQ and this might
| >| >cause this sort of problem. What doyou think ?
| >| >
| >| >I hope my XFI card is not causeing the problem, though its not in
| >| >their at the moment and its still doing it, though i suppose it does
| >| >not have to be in their if it already has the IRQ ???
| >| >
| >| >Got any programs that can test my card to see if the card is OK, andi
| >| >mean test the ram ect ?
| >| >
| >| >Thanks.
| >| >
| >| >
| >| >
| >| >
| >| >
| >| >On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:57:05 +0800, Cameron Walsh
| >| ><> wrote:
| >| >
| >| >>Paul Mathews wrote:
| >| >>>
| >| >>>
| >| >>> Whats that mean ???
| >| >>>
| >| >>>
| >| >>> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:16:05 -0800, Bill
| >| >>> <> wrote:
| >| >>>
| >| >>>> In article <>,
| >| >>>> says...
| >| >>>>>
| >| >>>>>
| >| >>>>> Did i crush my 7950 Gt GPU core !!!!!
| >| >>>>>
| >| >>>>> Mobo is Gigabyte 965p DS3.
| >| >>>>>
| >| >>>>>
| >| >>>>> I'am just haveing much rouble with it now after i replaced the
stock
| >| >>>>> cooler with a NV Silencer 5 Rev 3. It does not state its
compatible
| >| >>>>> with it but i wanted something for my HTPC that would blow the
aout
| >| >>>>> the back and i read that someone put one on without problem.
| >| >>>>>
| >| >>>>> The problem is now the PC boots everytime i wake up without a
| >problem
| >| >>>>> and maybe 2 times in a row if i restart, but after that its
prettry
| >| >>>>> random and mostly doe snot work.
| >| >>>>>
| >| >>>>> It boots up like a matrix thing with curruption in rows comign
down
| >| >>>>> the screen onthe bios boot up screen and the windows boot screen
and
| >| >>>>> when i get into windows the icons on the taskbar are currpted.
| >| >>>>>
| >| >>>>> If i try to run a game or anything the whole pc juts crashes and
i
| >get
| >| >>>>> a blue screen and the BSOD is currpted so you can't read it.
| >| >>>>>
| >| >>>>> But if it boots without the currption everything is sweet, I can
run
| >| >>>>> my e6400 @ 3.3ghz fine and run Prime95 for 9 hours on both cores
| >with
| >| >>>>> no errorss
| >| >>>>>
| >| >>>>> I was thinkingif this would be a NTFS problem, but i'am not sure
| >when
| >| >>>>> NTFS kicks in. I hope this is the problem as a Fat32 reinstall is
| >all
| >| >>>>> thats needed.
| >| >>>>>
| >| >>>>> Thanks.
| >| >>>>>
| >| >>>> I suspect you have ESD zapped a memory chip.
| >| >>>>
| >| >>>> Bill
| >| >>>
| >| >>
| >| >>It means your finger acted as a cattle prod when you touched a memory
| >| >>chip. ESD=Electrostatic Discharge
| >| >>
| >| >>I had a card do this out of the box. I took it back. I got a better
| >| >>one instead.
| >| >>
| >| >>However since it's intermittent, and gets worse as you use it more,
it
| >| >>is more likely to be temperature related. Did you use thermal paste
| >| >>when you put the cooler on? Did you absolutely soak the thing in it
| >| >>(bad idea, makes conduction worse) or use a tiny amount (enough to
fill
| >| >>in gaps between metal and metal)?
| >| >>
| >| >>Try reseating the cooler with the above in mind. If it fixes it,
great,
| >| >>if not, my non-expert opinion would say it's busted.
| >| >>
| >| >>Finally, how is the fan powered? Direct off the card or from the
PSU?
| >| >>
| >| >>Cameron.
| >