G4 cooling destruction

[Jason425]

I decided that i was gonna put some thermaltake ramsinks on.. i figured some thermal grease would help.. oh it helped.. ruin the card! i guess it got on something and now it just produces a screen so garbled and messed up its unusable.. theres $130+ down the tube.. now i'm stuck with a g2 mx.. dont make the same mistake i did.

what kind did you apply..?? regular white..? or artic silver..?? Also how did you apply the grease on the ram and stick the sinks to it..? did ya clamp them on with metal..? If you put ram sinks on the best easy way to do it is frag tape. Not sure how ya put the sinks on with just grease. If it was artic silver then ya probably put on to much and it connected some of the ram pins.

Oh yeah feel free to send me the card and I will check it out for ya. Or I will buy it broken as it for $20 shipped. Accept paypal..??

its best to use non conductive silicon grease to overlap those pins on the ram before applying thermal paste

[Jason425]

it was silver grease.. i tried with the sticky stuff and without.. i must have put too much on.. what do you mean to check it out.. what would you do? you think you could fix it?

or maybe he wants to make a Geforce 4 chip keychain out of it...

does it void ur warranty by adding a ram sink??

[Jason425]

lol.. that score on my signiture is kinda void now.. i'm not gonna post my 1600 score with this card on there

what??

im saying does it void the chaintech's warranty by just adding ramsink onto it?

you can lie to them and just say "it just went out like that after i put on the ramsink with the fragtape"

if the arctic silver isnt visible on there that is

[Jason425]

i wiped all the silver off thinking that it would make it work but it didnt.. in fact it made it worse.. but anyway i bought the card online a while ago and have gotten rid of most of the documentation so i either gotta fix it or sell it

wow what a smart thing you did...
getting rid of documents...


oh well...
i guess all you can do now is to find someone who knows how to fix it which is very hard to find