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Title: Broken 5870 Post by: whopper on July 06, 2011, 09:13:34 PM Hi all,
I managed to get my hands on a broken 5870 card. The guy who gave it to me told me he was driving his resolution up to much, so the output went black. I threw it in my linux machine but this card is not being recognized, not even when running "lspci". But its fan is spinning, it is getting warm over time, and when I pull out the pcie-power-plugs it is beeping like a good card... Also there are no signs of errors while booting, no bios error code beeps, ... Do you have any ideas what else can I try to get it working again? Title: Re: Broken 5870 Post by: deslok on July 06, 2011, 09:17:49 PM Well either something is burned out completely out a solder joint has gone bad... You could yet the baking fix..
http://www.overclock.net/graphics-cards-general/529271-bake-your-graphics-card-oven-fix.html Title: Re: Broken 5870 Post by: whopper on July 06, 2011, 09:28:04 PM Ok I am aware of this baking method ::)
But I'll have to return the card and there is a good chance that something could go really wrong and I dont want to end up buying it ^^ |