Yeh, had a wonderful issue last night. My Geforce 6800GT went screwy and covered the entire screen with weird static looking colors, and froze the PC. So, I go, take the card out, and look it over.
On the bottom of the card, there was one chip that looked like it had leaked some thermal paste from the other side somehow--or the solder melted or sofened and covered a few tiny circuits. So I VERY carefully chip off the excess stuff--it was clear it wasn't meant to be there-- (does this happen sometimes? And could this have been the issue?) Anyway, It could have caused a short or something.
I reinstalled it--but expected it to fail again--have yet to move the desk BACK because I expected it to fail--lol, but nope. All is well so far, and I even taxed the hell out of it for heat checking. When it crashed, it was only at 72c, which is more than okay--the max point is 120c for this card.
Not worried, just pissed me off, of all things I need to delay me, the PC isn't one of them. [img]smile.gif[/img]
I *DO* have a older Geforce4 4600Ti 128mb card, and would do fine to finish the patch. No biggie, but man.. what a pain.
Anyway, this happened last night, so I got back to work for a time, then went to sleep at 5am. lol. Now, I'm back at it. About 20% left to finish. I FREAKING HATE PALETTES!
Although, I *am* listening to the audiobook a friend gave me of Eragon and Elder. Pretty good story for a 17 year old! Damn audiobooks are like 14-16 hours EACH!