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Old October 14, 2008, 08:48 PM
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Default Bad Ati 3870 anything i can do?
I had i waterblock on it and ran it for about 4months and everything was working fine until i bought a new card and replaced the stock cooler on it, now it won't show anything on the screen, tried to re-mount the stock heatsink but still did the same thing. Anything i could do? I can't send it for warranty since i removed the cooler (dam ATI). By the way its a visiontek.

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Old October 15, 2008, 08:57 AM
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Not really if Visiontek does not cover removing the HS.
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Old October 15, 2008, 10:52 AM
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I don't think any ATI partners allow removal of the heatsink AFAIK. Sorry for you luck man! Did you plug the fan back in on the HS?
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Old October 15, 2008, 10:54 AM
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I don't think any ATI partners allow removal of the heatsink AFAIK. Sorry for you luck man! Did you plug the fan back in on the HS?

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Old October 15, 2008, 03:05 PM
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Man that sucks. And you didn't notice any problems before and it just stopped working?
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Old October 15, 2008, 05:15 PM
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Yeah it used to work fine......i think it might be a bad capacitor since one of them seems to be loose.....but im not really comfortable trying to replace it.
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