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- From: "Darren J" <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:56:57 +1000
"Darren J" <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:434cdf0a$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I've been naughty and also posted to 'alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati'
> under the subject
> '***Radeon 8500 deluxe*** 2 video cards and 2 monitors tried. Monitor has
a
> thin red line on boot up'
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> ----------------------------------
> Hi
>
> Until recently, the only symptom has been a thin-red vertical line,
showing
> in the middle of the crt monitor, when shutting Win2k down.
>
> I have an ***Radeon 8500 deluxe*** video card, with a way-too-heavy Zalman
> heatsink and fan (ZD80???). An Asus A7v333 mobo with AMD2200 cpu.
>
> Occasionally I have had to reseat or push the video card back into its
slot,
> as gravity and the heatsink are pulling the video card out of its AGP
slot.
> I've even made stilts for the card to keep it in place, which has helped.
>
> *********Here's the current problem*********
> I took the video card out to reseat it today. After I re-inserted the
card,
> I don't get a POST beep anymore but I do get a colorful little vertical
line
> on the monitor, for an instant, when booting up. (Typically this has been
> resolved in the past by reseating the video card or pushing it back into
its
> AGP slot.)
>
> I've tried using another monitor and video card in the AGP slot. Same
> symptoms.
>
> I don't have a spare PCI video card and I can't test my video card on
> another system, (in case air-brushing it also caused another problem), as
> the heatsink is too large to fit into my other PC's.
>
> I tried reseating the RAM, as perhaps forcing the video card into the
> motherboard time after time has caused some warping of the motherboard,
> although the mobo is supported, where the AGP slot is.
>
> I haven't reseated the CPU. I haven't removed all the cards and
reinserted
> them one at a time.
>
> I am extremely disappointed with the large video heatsink, as it has
> continued to pull my video card out of the AGP slot far too many times,
> though the cooling has been impressive.
>
> Should I try extracting all the cards and RAM and re-insert, one component
> at a time?
>
> If I reseat the CPU, then is my 6 month old tube of ARCTIC silver 5 up to
> the job? (Not always stored vertically.)
>
> I'll also have to find out how to remove my Thermaltake Volcano 7 heatsink
> and fan and re-install that, on the Web.
>
> Thanks for reading my rantings.
>
> Darren
>
>
.
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