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I'm going to check the board again and again until I find something!
"Dima R" <dimar@aei.ca> wrote in message news:40f5ef2f_1@aeinews....
> I can't really see the leads, they must be under the chips. I checked the
> board with a magnifying lens over and over, couldn't find any
paste/shorts.
> Is there any liquid or whatever that I could use to clean the board of
> possible paste on the board that I could overseen?
>
> Is it possible that the whole thing could be because of a damaged
capacitor?
> I removed the small heatsink on the back of the card. There's capacitor
near
> the bottom hole that holds the heatsink. When I pushed back the clip of
the
> sink, I think I bended the lead of the capacitor, but I'm not really sure
> because it's hard to see there.
>
> I found a new BIOS that makes 9500 64MB into 9500 Pro 64MB with 8
pipelines.
> When I flashed my card with it, windows now recognizes my card as 9700 Pro
> 64MB, the memory works at 128bit mode, which means the chips on the front
of
> the board. I got a BIOS editor and edited the BIOS to 256bit. After that,
I
> still get the artifats in windows, but no artifacts in DOS (with 9700
128MB
> BIOS, DOS letters had different colours). Still in 128bit mode 64MB I get
a
> higher score in 3dMark than as 9500 softmoded. (same clock
320core/300mem).
>
> Is there any diagnostic software that could check the card and show where
> the errors come from?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
>
> "Phil" <phil_essing@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2RiJc.113941$UO6.2032494@wagner.videotron.net...
> > Something to consider: Artic Silver is ever so slightly electrically
> > conductive. So, you need to make sure there's no Arctic Silver touching
> any
> > the mem chip leads.
> >
> > -phil
> >
> > "Dima R" <dimar@aei.ca> wrote in message news:40f55af4$1_2@aeinews....
> > > I installed heatsinks on my Radeon 9700 using Arctic Silver Thermal
> > dhesive
> > > and now I get artifacts in games.
> > > This wasn't my first time sticking heatsinks on the memory chips and
the
> > > board looks perfectely nice and clean.
> > >
> > > Could the memory itself be damaged with the adhesive?
> > >
> > > When I flash the board to Radeon 9500 64MB and then use Softmod, the
> games
> > > look fine, but slower than before.
> > >
> > > If you have any ideas please let me know.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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