I just got my Gainward GF4 Ti4200 128MB and wanted to try it as fast as I could, so I put it in an old PC with a super socket 7.
Before that I pasted with Arctic Silver Thermal Epoxy some RAM coolers and I *think* that some of the epoxy touched the metal thingies that connect the RAM chips with the video card.
So, the result was a bunch of coloured lines on the monitor when I turned on the PC. I'll be able to put the card on my normal machine in a few days, but till then I am worried that either the card is bad or I damaged it.
Does anybody know
1. if there is a problem with older super socket 7 with ALI Magik chipset mainboards and the GF4 Ti4200
2. if the Arctic Silver Thermal Epoxy is a good electricity conductor (I hope I wrote it correctly) so that there might have been a short circuit on the board?
Thank you in advance.
Before that I pasted with Arctic Silver Thermal Epoxy some RAM coolers and I *think* that some of the epoxy touched the metal thingies that connect the RAM chips with the video card.
So, the result was a bunch of coloured lines on the monitor when I turned on the PC. I'll be able to put the card on my normal machine in a few days, but till then I am worried that either the card is bad or I damaged it.
Does anybody know
1. if there is a problem with older super socket 7 with ALI Magik chipset mainboards and the GF4 Ti4200
2. if the Arctic Silver Thermal Epoxy is a good electricity conductor (I hope I wrote it correctly) so that there might have been a short circuit on the board?
Thank you in advance.