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Oh, as long as we are off topic:

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All is well for me. Thanks.

Five days without power but it came back earlier in the week.

50% of Houston still has no power.

Galveston has been declared, officially "uninhabitable".

The island will rebound ... but it's taken a mighty mighty blow.

I'll be chainsawing fallen trees today.

Stihl FTW! (<--great chainsaws!)



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I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that, s1rrah.

On the plus side, my dad's stepmom lives far enough from Galveston that her house was mostly fine (she just needs to replace the roof, which the insurance will cover =P), though she's without power (though strangely, 5 houses across the street have it, so lots of food etc is stored over there).

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What? No posts in 12 hours? WOW

Love that Stihl Image s1rrah!!!!

Build is coming along VERY nice Syrillian! I also am a fan of naked cathodes!!

Holla when ya get some time

Syrillian

S1rrah! Glad to see you back, I am relieved to know that you are in one piece

I trust that you are well on your way to general recovery from that little wind-storm?



It was a long night... and morning, so I am a little scattered.... forgive my brevity.


Mornin' Gents...

Good news, and bad news: The good news is that the Motherboard modifications went well. The bad news is that one of the video cards is not functioning. I will post a thread about that in awhile... and there is some other good news - temperatures. The EK block with a 480 radiator dropped the temperature to:

(ambient was 19 C at time of reading)

note: ignore the CPU temps as the loop was only about 10 -minutes old and full of bubbles.


Here are some shots of the water-loops being installed, bled and tested:
















The problem:

The image below shows the backside of the GPU. There is are five (insert correct terminolgy here) glowy thingies, that flicker on, then shut off on the card that works.

On the card that does not work, the outside 2 remain illuminated and there is a constant "ticking" noise (kinda like a GPU under load).

Arrows point to the referenced parts:


Notes:

• The card does not work by itself.
• There was a hang-up/re-start on "VGA BIOS" at one point during POST
• GPU is not recognised by the OS
• GPU is not recognised by CCC
• I did not drop it, or expose it to ESD (that I am aware)

Could I have somehow borked the BIOS on the GPU?

How can I go about troubleshooting more?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

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Shame about the GPU man. So it worked before you fitted the block?
Can't dig up any diagnostic flashes on google
Did you meddle with the BIOS?

Seems on the 4870 all those leds are used to determine power issues (I.E power cable not plugged in). Strange.

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Heya, coffee-j

Yah, that darned thing was fine prior to switching the cooling method.

I un-installed the block, thoroughly cleaned and inspected the card (coulda missed something though) and re-installed the block with the appropriate thermal pads and TIM.

Also, I have never flashed a GPU BIOS... would I be able to? could this be an issue?

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If you haven't meddled with the BIOS, then its not the BIOS causing the issue.
The leds on the rest of the HD4 series all seem to indicate power or temp issues -
http://forums.amd.com/game/messagevi...threadid=97885
So it must be one of those. Or its just borked

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That sucks about the card man Hope it works out for ya though.

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Syr, im afraid to say....

You killed it with Awesome-ness!

It overdosed

tis a sad day

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