[Emmanuel]

Hey guys, for fun, I tried in the Nvidia Control Panel to test the core clock at 1.25 GHz, the screen became all white and crissing sound came, I manually pressed the restart button, about 3 seconds elapsed between the white screen and pressing the reset button. Any damage could have occured?

 

[lessthanjake1241]

..err well it wasn't the smartest thing to do considering its a $600 card...only time will tell if you did damage...

 

[Emmanuel]

ya but I mean it was a test, and 3 seconds

 

[TheEddie]

Doubt it, just major artifacting!

 

[NOS---]

You restarted and....

 

[Emmanuel]

I am currently viewing overclock.net, I mean it restarted fine, my temps are still nice around 54 c.

 

[outlawsbba]

i once had that to my X700 it worked fine but when i tryd Direct 3D mode in Counter - Strike 1.6 it would show lines on the screen and before that worked great but that was the only trouble it gove the rest was perfect so was Counter - Strike using OpenGL

 

[NOS---]

Well, if it is working fine now, then I think you are all good. Go run some benchies and 3d apps to be shure.

 

[Emmanuel]

I didn't run any games, because I just set the slider to 1.25 GHz and pressed the "test" button, and the white screen came, and I jumped on the restart button.

 

[matman40]

Thats not smart but one time i got my Geforce2 mx400 to run at 1.0Ghz core for about 2 secounds...I dont know how that was possible but lol...

 

[Emmanuel]

I mean but could my video card could have suffered any damage during this 3 seconds period of time?

 

[Emmanuel]

well I just ran 3DMark06 and I had no graphical problems at all, no artifacts. I ran dxdiag tests w/o any problems, Flight Simulator X ultra high settings without any problems, and Battlefield 2142 ultra high no graphical problems. My temps are the same as before. What happened exactly is that before letting you save a oc, the nvidia control panel gives you the option to "test", as soon as I pressed test, the white screen came with the crissing sound, for 3 seconds or less before I restarted my PC. Am I pretty covered with this? I mean there shouldn't be damage right?

 

[pauldovi]

There was no damage done. You cannot cause any physical damage that I know of just by increasing clocks. You would have to increase Vcore to hurt anything.

 

[Emmanuel]

Though increasing clocks wouldn't automatically increase Vcore? using the Nvidia Control Panel, do they link the Clocks OC to Vcore or it has to be done seperatly.

 

[zacbrain]

it shouldent. ive accendentaly donw that with my old 6600gt from 1000 to 1506 on accedent restarted and nothing was wrong.

 

[Satek]

i did the same thing to my x800xt i was bored so i set the core 2 times the default and the screen turned white, no damage was done.

 

[Emmanuel]

lol satek, same here, well, I'm happy to hear that.

 

[pauldovi]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emmanuel Though increasing clocks wouldn't automatically increase Vcore? using the Nvidia Control Panel, do they link the Clocks OC to Vcore or it has to be done seperatly.

The only way to change voltage on a Nvidia GPU is through hardware change. You have to ground out resistors manually to do it.

 

[Emmanuel]

Outstanding knowledge men, I learn something new everyday thanks to my stupidness.

 

[TheEddie]

Quote:

Originally Posted by matman40 Thats not smart but one time i got my Geforce2 mx400 to run at 1.0Ghz core for about 2 secounds...I dont know how that was possible but lol...

It's not possible, program error maybe..