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Old 09-15-2007, 07:15 PM
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Default video card looks staticy


ok heres what happend. i use a seperet fan to cool off my vid card that i have to turn on, and one day i was playing battlefield2 and i forgot to turn on the fan so i started to see little boxes every were like a bad signal tv channel, so i turned off my computer and took off the heat sink from the vid card and re did the thermal paste and now the whole moniter looks all mestut up like a realy bad signal channel on a tv. it might be static or i just burned it out. so is ther any what to fix this. and if my typeing is off well its just that i can hardly see on the screen



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Old 09-21-2007, 07:09 PM
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Hello, sorry to say it but it sounds like your card has suffered a near death experience due to heat damage. Unless your an expert at soldering and you know where to get some parts, I'd get a new one.

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