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Graphics card repair

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by Haribon, Jun 6, 2004.

  1. Haribon

    Haribon Member

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    I recieved a leadtek GF4 Ti 4200 From a relative. My problem is it already has many white dot artifacting and occasional graphic tearing. I think this one has been badly overclocked for a long time. My question is could this card still be repaired? Is there some way to remove the artifacting? Thanks
     
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    Praetor Moderator Staff Member

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    Odds are you won't be able to repair much if anything at all -- in most cases, once a card goes it's gone forever. The best you can try is to possibly see to it that the card has good cooling and underclock it if possible
     
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    Thanks Praetor i would try to underclock the core and memory frequency later. I downloaded Rivatuner and disabled lossless Z buffer compression and somehow it work a bit cause the white dots have nearly dissapeared but some games faied to boot or crashed. and I think the cards performance has gone down to a Gf3 Ti200 level.
     
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    Ya well when OC'd cards 'go' they "go for good" (usually) because something gets burnt too crisp :p
     

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