[SOLVED] Applied new thermal paste on gpu and now Artifacts.

[R3dl3G77]

I felt like restoring new life in an Asus 1050ti 4gb dual fan card by new Cooler Master thermal paste. Now I'm getting all kinds of jacked up artifacts on the screen. Any help would be appreciated. I applied just a pea size and cleaned up spill over. Thanks

Fail

 

[vov4ik_il]

Those BGA ICs (both the main chip and memory) attached to the board with soldering “balls” which are solid. Bending and bowing leads to partial IC separation from the board.

Artifacts are memory errors and could be a result of either memory (gddr) or memory controller (inside the main chip) issue which may very well be a result of the above.

Reflow will usually fix it if the mounting pads are not thorn off the board.

Do not bother with 1050, just replace it.

 

[FoxVoxDK]

Nice...I was already thinking the exact same thing. Please explain what you mean about the tinfoil balls. 4 to hold it off the bottom?*

Exactly, you use the balls to make sure the card is not touching the tray, and is held aloft by the tinballs in each corner. Make sure they are NOT touching any soldering.