RCM
09-09-2006, 12:18 AM
This is my first post so here goes....
I ordered a arctic cooler to replace the cooling unit on my x850xt pe. It arrived today so I proceeded to take off the stock cooling unit and cleaned off the old thermal paste. I then applied some arctic silver 5 and screwed in the new cooling unit. When i put it back in case it started up normally but as soon as my desktop loaded i got a vpu recovery message. I pressed OK and then i noticed small line artifacts all over the screen which started to blink and move around. Less then 10 seconds later the screen went blank. Now I cant get anything to show up after startup no desktop, no windows loading, no bios.....nothing. I tried reinstalling the card and still nothing. My monitor recognizes the vga and dvi connection but its like they are on sleep mode. Also I noticed when putting the card back previous times that if i forget to plug in the power cable it beeps and wont start and now when i tried it without the power cable it starts up normally (i can hear the hard drives spining). Any ideas what I could have done? and maybe more importantly how to fix it.....?
I ordered a arctic cooler to replace the cooling unit on my x850xt pe. It arrived today so I proceeded to take off the stock cooling unit and cleaned off the old thermal paste. I then applied some arctic silver 5 and screwed in the new cooling unit. When i put it back in case it started up normally but as soon as my desktop loaded i got a vpu recovery message. I pressed OK and then i noticed small line artifacts all over the screen which started to blink and move around. Less then 10 seconds later the screen went blank. Now I cant get anything to show up after startup no desktop, no windows loading, no bios.....nothing. I tried reinstalling the card and still nothing. My monitor recognizes the vga and dvi connection but its like they are on sleep mode. Also I noticed when putting the card back previous times that if i forget to plug in the power cable it beeps and wont start and now when i tried it without the power cable it starts up normally (i can hear the hard drives spining). Any ideas what I could have done? and maybe more importantly how to fix it.....?