Hello all, I have a connect3d x800 GTO that has been modded to 16 pipes and has been fitted with a Zalman vf700-cu (guessing on exact model number, but its the slightly older all copper version).
I came home the other day to find that my display was gone. I rebooted my PC and got about 10 repeating BIOS beep codes. Aparently for the video. I then looked closer into my case to find that the fan on my zalman wasn't spinning!! I immediatley turn off the PC and take the card out to inspect. The all copper Zalman cooler was very discolored, parts were almost white and some parts were almost black, will take some pics later.
I put the card back in and turned on the PC and this time the fan started working and booted into my OS. Everything seemed fine in 2d. Then I fired up a game of UT2004 and it was stuttering very badly. This was in linux so I thought maybe there was something going on in the background and decided to try a game in windows. First I opened up ATi tool and selected my default overclock, 520/500. Then I fired up Hitman Bloodmoney and it seemed fine at first. I started getting some mild artifacts, but nothing major, then after a few minutes it froze up and GPU recover kicked in.
I will ahve to test this all out more later and update this for you guys.
What can I do? Does connect3d have any kind of warranty? Would it even be valid with the zalman and modded bios? Does zalman have a warranty?
What should I do? Thanks in advance!
I came home the other day to find that my display was gone. I rebooted my PC and got about 10 repeating BIOS beep codes. Aparently for the video. I then looked closer into my case to find that the fan on my zalman wasn't spinning!! I immediatley turn off the PC and take the card out to inspect. The all copper Zalman cooler was very discolored, parts were almost white and some parts were almost black, will take some pics later.
I put the card back in and turned on the PC and this time the fan started working and booted into my OS. Everything seemed fine in 2d. Then I fired up a game of UT2004 and it was stuttering very badly. This was in linux so I thought maybe there was something going on in the background and decided to try a game in windows. First I opened up ATi tool and selected my default overclock, 520/500. Then I fired up Hitman Bloodmoney and it seemed fine at first. I started getting some mild artifacts, but nothing major, then after a few minutes it froze up and GPU recover kicked in.
I will ahve to test this all out more later and update this for you guys.
What can I do? Does connect3d have any kind of warranty? Would it even be valid with the zalman and modded bios? Does zalman have a warranty?
What should I do? Thanks in advance!
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