Arctic cooling conversion gone bad

[mrohde]

I just installed a arctic cooling cooler in my 6800 ultra. When I boot up I get all kinds of garbage layed over the normal display. Once windows boot completely I get the normal display but the entire screen has little retangles about every 1/8-1/4 of an inch over the top of the normal display.

I put my other 6800 ultra in and everything is good. So what did I do to this card when I put the cooler on?

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[leedog2007]

Is the cooler flush with the GPU? Do you have the arctic NV5?

 

[mrohde]

I am getting good contact and yes it is the NV5

 

[McArra]

Maybe smashed core?

 

[mrohde]

I I crushed the core would i see any physical damage?

 

[McArra]

I don't really now, never happened to me.

 

[Fenuxx]

You may see physical damage. I would check the card for ANY physical damage. If you did something to the traces from the GPU to the memory that may cause artifacts as well.

 

[Paktu]

You could try putting the old stock cooler back on. What are your temps on the core right now?

 

[Xed]

apply the as5 incorrectly on your ram?

<guessing as5 since you didn't mention which paste you used>

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: McArra
Maybe smashed core?

Isn't it extremely hard to crush an Nvidia core? Don't they still have the core surrounded by plastic? If anything, I would say it is a broken trace, gouge in the core or something conductive between CPU or memory pins.

 

[THUGSROOK]

replace your stock HSF and find out.
chances are the NV5 is 100% of your problem.