- Jul 11, 2001
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I spent the last couple of hours installing my new Zalman ZM-80C
heat-pipe onto my BFG ti4600 video card. To do that, I had to remove the
HSF from the card. The fan came off easily but the HS didn't. I tried to
pry it off with a screwdriver but it was stuck on pretty hard. I had no
clue how to proceed. The Zalman instructions didn't address that stuff.
I reasoned, that if I heat the chip up some, the adhesive would loosen
some and it would be easier to pry off the HS. So, I installed the card
and started the machine. I only had it on for 20 or 30 seconds max, I
figure. At first it looked screwy. Zeroes running from top to bottom,
scrolling. I saw some other stuff in there, the typical boot
information. Maybe some error messages, I don't know. I may have reset
it, I can't remember. I stopped the machine and took out the card and
pried the HS off. My strategy of loosening the adhesive seemed to have
worked and I just hoped that I didn't fry the GPU. I figured maybe that
weird stuff was because the fan wasn't attached.
I got the heat-pipe on and it's doing the same thing when I try to boot
to Windows 2000. Starting from a cold start the boot sequence looks
ordinary but as Windows starts to load and the Windows logo appears,
there's some vertical lines that come and go, then a clear Windows
startup logo, then my monitor goes blank! Go into BIOS setup and
some letters are wrong. There's also a lot of extraneous characters,
for instance a LOT of zeros all over the screen!
I guess I have to buy another video card, huh?
heat-pipe onto my BFG ti4600 video card. To do that, I had to remove the
HSF from the card. The fan came off easily but the HS didn't. I tried to
pry it off with a screwdriver but it was stuck on pretty hard. I had no
clue how to proceed. The Zalman instructions didn't address that stuff.
I reasoned, that if I heat the chip up some, the adhesive would loosen
some and it would be easier to pry off the HS. So, I installed the card
and started the machine. I only had it on for 20 or 30 seconds max, I
figure. At first it looked screwy. Zeroes running from top to bottom,
scrolling. I saw some other stuff in there, the typical boot
information. Maybe some error messages, I don't know. I may have reset
it, I can't remember. I stopped the machine and took out the card and
pried the HS off. My strategy of loosening the adhesive seemed to have
worked and I just hoped that I didn't fry the GPU. I figured maybe that
weird stuff was because the fan wasn't attached.
I got the heat-pipe on and it's doing the same thing when I try to boot
to Windows 2000. Starting from a cold start the boot sequence looks
ordinary but as Windows starts to load and the Windows logo appears,
there's some vertical lines that come and go, then a clear Windows
startup logo, then my monitor goes blank! Go into BIOS setup and
some letters are wrong. There's also a lot of extraneous characters,
for instance a LOT of zeros all over the screen!
I guess I have to buy another video card, huh?