markiemrboo Posted April 14, 2005 Posted April 14, 2005 I am seeing a lot of 9800's being sold on ebay as faulty with the cause being that one day it was working, next day.. computer wouldn't post and it just gives a blank screen. Anyone know if this is easily fixable/the cause? I'm determined to get a bargain faulty card one day and fix it up so I keep looking. Most of them are the old "lots of lines and/or garbage on the screen". Aint touching those as it's more than likely heat damage and it's just screwed Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 so now you're on the lookout for broken stuff to solder? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 I am seeing a lot of 9800's being sold on ebay as faulty with the cause being that one day it was working, next day.. computer wouldn't post and it just gives a blank screen. 462460[/snapback] That's how my 9880 Pro died. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 so now you're on the lookout for broken stuff to solder? 462693[/snapback] Ut oh. He's on to me! *takes soldering iron and hides* That's how my 9880 Pro died. 462772[/snapback] I'll have it But really, must have been gutted! Was it a Sapphire card? I think all the ones I am seeing are Sapphire cards Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 Was it a Sapphire card? I think all the ones I am seeing are Sapphire cards 462810[/snapback] Nah, it was a BBA. Bought it in May, it died the first week of October. Shut the comp off (maybe I should have left it Folding after all ), went to bed, booted up the next morning, and got nada zip zero zilch on the screen. Yanked the memory and tried to boot-got beeps. Took 9200 (ouch) out of other computer and booted up fine (after I put the meory back in heh heh), then waited 35 days (!) for ATi RMA replacement to come back. Two days after the RMA came back I already had the 6800GT, so my interest in the 9800 kind of died. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 Nah, it was a BBA. Bought it in May, it died the first week of October. Shut the comp off (maybe I should have left it Folding after all ), went to bed, booted up the next morning, and got nada zip zero zilch on the screen. Yanked the memory and tried to boot-got beeps. Took 9200 (ouch) out of other computer and booted up fine (after I put the meory back in heh heh), then waited 35 days (!) for ATi RMA replacement to come back. Two days after the RMA came back I already had the 6800GT, so my interest in the 9800 kind of died. 462895[/snapback] lol kind of reminds me of what happened to my Voodoo3, was working fine, rebooted one day and it just died suddenly on me! Weird! 1 month for RMA! I guess they don't do any sort of cross shipping (I think thats what they call it?). When I had to RMA my Maxtor hard disk they were cool about it, they sent me the replacement hard disk first so I could get everything off my drive etc, then send the faulty one back. If I didn't send it back within some amount of time they just charge you the price of the hard disk. Think it only took a week for the replacement to arrive too!! Not suprising really, 9800 vs 6800GT Still, I guess there must be some sort of fault with the boards if alot of them (well, it seems like quite alot) are failing like that totally randomly! Guess it's not a fixable thing though, so I will have to keep looking Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puck Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 Recently my friend brought over his aiw 9800 pro because he said it wasnt working, and described to me what just sounded like artifacts. He knew I had the same card, so I checked it out. First thing I did was reseat the heatsink with as5, then power up...horrible checkerboard looking thing, but still booted up. At what I guess was login screen you could see a couple small squares(think old skool ascii art) moving around in tune with my mouse. Looked like my tnt2 after I fried it. And I wasted as5 on that thing! 7 bucks per cc! Lol, hope that doesnt happen to my card... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
asus Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 the cause of this may be faulty contacts that would go into the AGP port.. i would suggest cleaning them off with 97-99% alcohol ... that happened to my 6800GT and i just cleand the contacts off and it was 100% .. never had the problem since.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemrboo Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 Really? Just wouldn't turn on at all? That's interesting! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
asus Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 no no.. i was getting bad artifacting and instability.. .. there was almost like a film on the mettle leads, i used a q-tip and cleanded each lead or each copper strip.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 Recently my friend brought over his aiw 9800 pro because he said it wasnt working, and described to me what just sounded like artifacts. He knew I had the same card, so I checked it out. First thing I did was reseat the heatsink with as5, then power up...horrible checkerboard looking thing, but still booted up. At what I guess was login screen you could see a couple small squares(think old skool ascii art) moving around in tune with my mouse. Looked like my tnt2 after I fried it. And I wasted as5 on that thing! 7 bucks per cc! Lol, hope that doesnt happen to my card... 463091[/snapback] That's what happened to my friends old 9600pro. the only thing is later on we removed the HSF and discovered tha there was a "chunk" missing from the GPU core....yeah it worked great other than that heavy artifacting thing lol. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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