Zer0Cool
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Last night I tried playing BF2, when the game finally loaded, the screen would kind of blink, and then after playing for 5-10 min, the monitor would turn off. At first I thought maybe the in game video settings are bad, or maybe I needed to install all the proper patches....etc. After checking and downloading all the proper drivers/patches it still did the same thing. I then decided to minimize the game to check my vid temp, and when I did, I had a msg. “Warning your card is running above the safe tempâ€. (I think it was over a 100c) I then turned off my computer and took out the card to take a closer look at it. (I had previously removed the original heat sink from the card, replacing it with the Zalman VF900-Cu VGA Cooler. That was about 4 month ago). When I removed the VGA cooler I found that the thermal paste was very dry, and it looked to me like there should have been more of it…also 1 of the 4 screws (nipples) that was supposed to hold the heat sink to the chipset was kind of broken, it wouldn't tighten, coz by the looks of it, it was too small for the hole. (I wasn't the one who was assembling it in the first place, the store where I gat my comp 7 month ago did it for me, I will try to go over there tomorrow and ask for a new card.)
I then removed the old thermal paste, and laid down the new. I put everything back together, and started my computer. I then saw all kind of different collars on the screen, and words to be misplaced…etc The boot up would go to the point where I would need to put in my password to log in to windows, and then my monitor would turn off !
Not very sure why I am writing this thread, coz it's obvious that my card is history…
From the evidence that I was able to gather, I think it was a bad VGA installation…
Would u guys say that the new Zalman VGA coolers are better then the standard coolers for vid cards?
Last night I tried playing BF2, when the game finally loaded, the screen would kind of blink, and then after playing for 5-10 min, the monitor would turn off. At first I thought maybe the in game video settings are bad, or maybe I needed to install all the proper patches....etc. After checking and downloading all the proper drivers/patches it still did the same thing. I then decided to minimize the game to check my vid temp, and when I did, I had a msg. “Warning your card is running above the safe tempâ€. (I think it was over a 100c) I then turned off my computer and took out the card to take a closer look at it. (I had previously removed the original heat sink from the card, replacing it with the Zalman VF900-Cu VGA Cooler. That was about 4 month ago). When I removed the VGA cooler I found that the thermal paste was very dry, and it looked to me like there should have been more of it…also 1 of the 4 screws (nipples) that was supposed to hold the heat sink to the chipset was kind of broken, it wouldn't tighten, coz by the looks of it, it was too small for the hole. (I wasn't the one who was assembling it in the first place, the store where I gat my comp 7 month ago did it for me, I will try to go over there tomorrow and ask for a new card.)
I then removed the old thermal paste, and laid down the new. I put everything back together, and started my computer. I then saw all kind of different collars on the screen, and words to be misplaced…etc The boot up would go to the point where I would need to put in my password to log in to windows, and then my monitor would turn off !
Not very sure why I am writing this thread, coz it's obvious that my card is history…
From the evidence that I was able to gather, I think it was a bad VGA installation…
Would u guys say that the new Zalman VGA coolers are better then the standard coolers for vid cards?