Couldn't for the life of me figure out why I was suddenly having trouble with my 7900GT.
Its been running great for a couple months with no heat issues or stability issues. Then yesterday Oblivion started crashing. Even at default settings.
Uh oh.
FEAR. crash
Looping 3dMark06 - less than an hour - CRASH.
Uh oh. Perhaps I one of the million tweeks I've done recently screwed things up.
Skip to the punch line. After reinstalling everything I decieded to remove my volt mods, just in case. I open up the case and as I'm removing the card I realize something. Like when you get the punch line of a joke half an hour later. The Ram sink I put on a few ICs associated with memory on the back the card fell off.
******, I shoulda seen that right away. Ok pop it on no problem right?
well I can't find the RAM sink. How far could it go? I pick up the computer and shake. Nothing loose.
I get the flashlight and go hunting. Oh crap.
After some histerics I look at the computer again. Sure enough there it is plain as day.
It wasn't there before. I have either ghosts or gremlins or something.
Or I need sleep.
Anyway this time I took off the thermal tape and I'm going to AS5 and use a dot of super glue!
So the moral of my story is ME = MORON. Hope someone gets a laugh out of this
Its been running great for a couple months with no heat issues or stability issues. Then yesterday Oblivion started crashing. Even at default settings.
Uh oh.
FEAR. crash
Looping 3dMark06 - less than an hour - CRASH.
Uh oh. Perhaps I one of the million tweeks I've done recently screwed things up.
Skip to the punch line. After reinstalling everything I decieded to remove my volt mods, just in case. I open up the case and as I'm removing the card I realize something. Like when you get the punch line of a joke half an hour later. The Ram sink I put on a few ICs associated with memory on the back the card fell off.
******, I shoulda seen that right away. Ok pop it on no problem right?
well I can't find the RAM sink. How far could it go? I pick up the computer and shake. Nothing loose.
I get the flashlight and go hunting. Oh crap.
After some histerics I look at the computer again. Sure enough there it is plain as day.
It wasn't there before. I have either ghosts or gremlins or something.
Or I need sleep.
Anyway this time I took off the thermal tape and I'm going to AS5 and use a dot of super glue!
So the moral of my story is ME = MORON. Hope someone gets a laugh out of this
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