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sixate · 06-08-2004, 02:52 PM

For the past few days my PC has been acting weird as hell. It's been freezing up for no reason at all. Well I think I found my problem. This one time I rebooted I got a message that said the power connector was not plugged into my vid card, but it obviously was, and the time before that it said that my display driver would not load because the video driver was fucked up..... Well, it didn't say that exactly, but I'm sure you all know what I mean.

So, I take out my 9800PRO and here's what I see.

Here's the molex connector that plugs into my card. The pin on the far right is burned. It's kinda hard to tell in this pic, but believe me, it is.

Here's the connector on the card itself. Hard not to see the burns here. Now I have to RMA this bitch and get a new one. For now I have to deal with a piece of shit 64MB 8500...

Looks like no gaming for me for a while.

What the hell would cause this? Just some shitty luck or what? I ask because I have absolutley no overheating issues at all. The hottest that my sytem ever gets is 49°C on the CPU, and my case temt tops out at around 34°C, but they're usually much lower.

I'll also add that I've never overclocked the card, so I don't wanna hear: That's what you get for overclocking.....

06-08-2004, 02:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
sixate Registered User Location: Somewhere in Ohio	My vid card burned up :( :( For the past few days my PC has been acting weird as hell. It's been freezing up for no reason at all. Well I think I found my problem. This one time I rebooted I got a message that said the power connector was not plugged into my vid card, but it obviously was, and the time before that it said that my display driver would not load because the video driver was fucked up..... Well, it didn't say that exactly, but I'm sure you all know what I mean. So, I take out my 9800PRO and here's what I see. Here's the molex connector that plugs into my card. The pin on the far right is burned. It's kinda hard to tell in this pic, but believe me, it is. Here's the connector on the card itself. Hard not to see the burns here. Now I have to RMA this bitch and get a new one. For now I have to deal with a piece of shit 64MB 8500... Looks like no gaming for me for a while. What the hell would cause this? Just some shitty luck or what? I ask because I have absolutley no overheating issues at all. The hottest that my sytem ever gets is 49°C on the CPU, and my case temt tops out at around 34°C, but they're usually much lower. I'll also add that I've never overclocked the card, so I don't wanna hear: That's what you get for overclocking..... Last edited by sixate; 06-08-2004 at 03:08 PM..