PieIsAwesome
Diamond Member
This morning I was testing a 7600gt that had been sitting in a box for quite some time now and decided to sell using one of my rigs with an x1800xt.
I did the routine, which was to clear some space, shut off the power supply, put on my grounding strap, then I removed the x1800xt.
Installed and tested 7600gt, tested great, shut off PC and PSU, removed 7600gt, and replaced x1800xt.
Turn on PSU and PC and after about 1 second PC shuts off. 1 second later it starts on its own, but just sits there with GPU fan at max speed and no video.
Check inside for any shorts or anything, nothing. PCI-E power connector is fine.
Remove x1800xt, use onboard video, rig works fine.
Test x1800xt in my main rig, no dice. x1800xt dead.
Could it have been the PSU that fried it? Its an older maddog PSU and last time I tested it the 12v rail dropped to 11.55v at the lowest under 100% GPU load. I had a good FSP PSU but never bothered to install it. 🙁
I was afraid I may have ESD'd the card, but I have never had that happen, and I have never actually used a grounding strap until recently. But now that I am more cautious and actually using a strap, ESD damage occurs? Doesn't make much sense. This was on a wooden desk on vinyl floor on a warm day.
I am guessing that whatever happened to the card happened during that shutdown that occurred about a second after starting the computer, but I am not sure what because everything is connected as it should be. I just did a simple card swap.
I did the routine, which was to clear some space, shut off the power supply, put on my grounding strap, then I removed the x1800xt.
Installed and tested 7600gt, tested great, shut off PC and PSU, removed 7600gt, and replaced x1800xt.
Turn on PSU and PC and after about 1 second PC shuts off. 1 second later it starts on its own, but just sits there with GPU fan at max speed and no video.
Check inside for any shorts or anything, nothing. PCI-E power connector is fine.
Remove x1800xt, use onboard video, rig works fine.
Test x1800xt in my main rig, no dice. x1800xt dead.
Could it have been the PSU that fried it? Its an older maddog PSU and last time I tested it the 12v rail dropped to 11.55v at the lowest under 100% GPU load. I had a good FSP PSU but never bothered to install it. 🙁
I was afraid I may have ESD'd the card, but I have never had that happen, and I have never actually used a grounding strap until recently. But now that I am more cautious and actually using a strap, ESD damage occurs? Doesn't make much sense. This was on a wooden desk on vinyl floor on a warm day.
I am guessing that whatever happened to the card happened during that shutdown that occurred about a second after starting the computer, but I am not sure what because everything is connected as it should be. I just did a simple card swap.
