Radeon 4870 Quits after mod?

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: Questor

I accidentally shorted my 8800GT with my finger after installing HR-03GT. So I cleaned off where I touched with alchohol and ran it again later and it worked

Probably something silly like that. I tend to be very careful, antistatic mat, wrist-strap, dust free cloth...the whole deal, but it's an imperfect world.

I just wish I could be more helpful to others in the solving of the problem.

Never touch the card when its on is my tip

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: Questor

I accidentally shorted my 8800GT with my finger after installing HR-03GT. So I cleaned off where I touched with alchohol and ran it again later and it worked

Probably something silly like that. I tend to be very careful, antistatic mat, wrist-strap, dust free cloth...the whole deal, but it's an imperfect world.

I just wish I could be more helpful to others in the solving of the problem.

Never touch the card when its on is my tip

What is with this thread, first Pelu and then BassBomb?

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: Questor

I accidentally shorted my 8800GT with my finger after installing HR-03GT. So I cleaned off where I touched with alchohol and ran it again later and it worked

Probably something silly like that. I tend to be very careful, antistatic mat, wrist-strap, dust free cloth...the whole deal, but it's an imperfect world.

I just wish I could be more helpful to others in the solving of the problem.

Never touch the card when its on is my tip

What is with this thread, first Pelu and then BassBomb?

Whats wrong with you? The OP wished he could be more helpful and I added a tip that might help users in the future encountering the same problem he or myself had.

 

[rolodomo]

Uhh dude.. Just do the damn oven thing. You've got nothing to loose. It takes a few minutes of your time to take it apart, pop it in the oven, take it back out, let it cool, re-attach the parts and pop it in your computer.

If not that, then mail it to me and I'll take it, instead of it going to the trash. I'll send you money in paypal for shipping.

Kakkoii, thanks for being so insistent on this. It spurred me to disassemble and bake an old ATI x800xl agp card I had that had been dead for about a year. I think there is really something to this, when I took the card out, all the solder points were shiny and molten looking. Any hairline fractures would have definately melted away.

Works great now. I'm so happy to have this card back in action. It is one of those relatively high performance, but obsolete, cards that are hard to cost effectively replace. Now my ancient socket 754 AMD 64 3700+ is back in action as a very good, secondary machine for light duty type stuff (e.g., browsing).

 

[thilanliyan]

IDC you're taking a bit of a beating today?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: Questor

I accidentally shorted my 8800GT with my finger after installing HR-03GT. So I cleaned off where I touched with alchohol and ran it again later and it worked

Probably something silly like that. I tend to be very careful, antistatic mat, wrist-strap, dust free cloth...the whole deal, but it's an imperfect world.

I just wish I could be more helpful to others in the solving of the problem.

Never touch the card when its on is my tip

What is with this thread, first Pelu and then BassBomb?

Whats wrong with you? The OP wished he could be more helpful and I added a tip that might help users in the future encountering the same problem he or myself had.

I misread your post as never touch the card when its on my tip, which has a whole other connotation. I see what you meant to say, which is to "never touch the card when it is powered on, that is my tip".

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: Questor

I accidentally shorted my 8800GT with my finger after installing HR-03GT. So I cleaned off where I touched with alchohol and ran it again later and it worked

Probably something silly like that. I tend to be very careful, antistatic mat, wrist-strap, dust free cloth...the whole deal, but it's an imperfect world.

I just wish I could be more helpful to others in the solving of the problem.

Never touch the card when its on is my tip

What is with this thread, first Pelu and then BassBomb?

Whats wrong with you? The OP wished he could be more helpful and I added a tip that might help users in the future encountering the same problem he or myself had.

I misread your post as never touch the card when its on my tip, which has a whole other connotation. I see what you meant to say, which is to "never touch the card when it is powered on, that is my tip".

:Q

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: Idontcare
I misread your post as never touch the card when its on my tip, which has a whole other connotation. I see what you meant to say, which is to "never touch the card when it is powered on, that is my tip".

:Q

I know, right :shocked: I failed at reading there big-time Sorry about that. Gonna have to cut back on these 10am margaritas.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: Questor

I accidentally shorted my 8800GT with my finger after installing HR-03GT. So I cleaned off where I touched with alchohol and ran it again later and it worked

Probably something silly like that. I tend to be very careful, antistatic mat, wrist-strap, dust free cloth...the whole deal, but it's an imperfect world.

I just wish I could be more helpful to others in the solving of the problem.

Never touch the card when its on is my tip

What is with this thread, first Pelu and then BassBomb?

Whats wrong with you? The OP wished he could be more helpful and I added a tip that might help users in the future encountering the same problem he or myself had.

I misread your post as never touch the card when its on my tip, which has a whole other connotation. I see what you meant to say, which is to "never touch the card when it is powered on, that is my tip".

:Q

:laugh:

I had some serious lol's on that too.

 

[Kakkoii]

Originally posted by: rolodomo

Uhh dude.. Just do the damn oven thing. You've got nothing to loose. It takes a few minutes of your time to take it apart, pop it in the oven, take it back out, let it cool, re-attach the parts and pop it in your computer.

If not that, then mail it to me and I'll take it, instead of it going to the trash. I'll send you money in paypal for shipping.

Kakkoii, thanks for being so insistent on this. It spurred me to disassemble and bake an old ATI x800xl agp card I had that had been dead for about a year. I think there is really something to this, when I took the card out, all the solder points were shiny and molten looking. Any hairline fractures would have definately melted away.

Works great now. I'm so happy to have this card back in action. It is one of those relatively high performance, but obsolete, cards that are hard to cost effectively replace. Now my ancient socket 754 AMD 64 3700+ is back in action as a very good, secondary machine for light duty type stuff (e.g., browsing).

Good to hear! Putting a card in the oven at such a temperature is probably a little bit of a scary idea to most people who don't know the details of how such a card is made in the first place. So it helps to see people post their success's with it. Glad ya got your card working again.