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BSODs after swapping case - did I fry video card?

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VivienM

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Hi guys,

I have a box with the following:
- Q8300 (recently upgraded from E5200)
- Asus P5QL-E, not overclocked
- 3 gigs of RAM
- 7900GT with aftermarket Zalman cooler
- W7 64-bit

I moved the system from a crappy old Antec SLK1600 to a new Zalman Z7 case, and ever since then, it's been bluescreening a few times a week.

Different errors. This time, it's IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, STOP: 0x0000000A.

I memtested a while ago, no issues.

I discovered a few days ago that a cable was stuck in my video card cooler, so the fan wasn't spinning. Card seemed to be idling at 60C instead of 38C. That's now been fixed, but could that have fried the card and the fried card is causing the BSODs?

If not, any other thoughts? This thing was rock solid in the old case.
 
With things like that I usually go back and check my work, making sure no standoffs are shorting on the board, loose connections,etc. Unplug everything inside the case and plug it back in sometimes helps. Make sure you use good lighting when you check things, easy to miss things using a flashlight or poor lighting. I like to use a 60watt lamp.
 
I had an old AGP card that apparently got damaged by connecting it to a malfunctioning RF-to-Compositive Video converter box. The AGP card had worked perfectly for years. But as soon as I hooked the AGP card to the composite video output on the converter box (which didn't work, it turns out), I started experiencing random BSODs. I only got a couple of crash dumps out of many BSODs and the error messges varied.

I did full system restores (from Windows Home Server) to the system back to six months earlier. And I restored the full system to a different hard drive. Nothing worked.

Finally, I pulled the (apparently damaged) AGP card and replaced it with a new one. The system now worked perfectly.
 
Well, next time it BSODs, I guess I'm going to pull out my 7100 or whatever the 'temporary-while-the-7900GT-gets-RMAed' card sitting in my closet is, and try that...

If that doesn't fix it, then... argh.
 
IRQL_NOT_ETC is generally a corrupt driver issue. Though it can be caused by faulty hardware responding incorrectly to driver calls.

Also does the fan on the GPU still work after being torqued like that?
 
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