Hi guys, this is my first post here, despite searching forums for twenty or thiry odd minutes, I haven't found anything quite up my ally yet.
I have a Sapphire 4870 from my build back in June of '09 (so no warranty anymore!), card was running great until a month ago when, to my utter dismay and horror, it unfortunately shorted out due to me being a dumb@$$.
A cable had come loose and hitting a case fan, took off panel to readjust and without thinking set my metal penlight on top of the card. There was what can only be described as the sound of a short circuit, my three red led's lit up on the card, and I haven't gotten a lick of output from it since. I personally have chalked it up to a lose, and have just been saving what meager amounts I can for a new 7xxx series, but a mate of mine said that the card may be saveable yet, and it could require the oven trick (looked it up, but I dunno if it'll work with a short circuited card), or replacing mosfets, caps, etc. I have some basic soldering experience, and would love to get this card working if it meant saving the 200 dollars or so for a new card.
I'm assuming first step is multimeter testing, I have done this before with a PSU but never a GPU, and any advice, pointers, or links to off-site material would be amazing. I have visually inspected card to best of my limited skill, and there doesn't appear to be any physical solder damage, so I'm assuming (glumly) that the problem is a bit more complicated then remelting some solder.
I have a Sapphire 4870 from my build back in June of '09 (so no warranty anymore!), card was running great until a month ago when, to my utter dismay and horror, it unfortunately shorted out due to me being a dumb@$$.
A cable had come loose and hitting a case fan, took off panel to readjust and without thinking set my metal penlight on top of the card. There was what can only be described as the sound of a short circuit, my three red led's lit up on the card, and I haven't gotten a lick of output from it since. I personally have chalked it up to a lose, and have just been saving what meager amounts I can for a new 7xxx series, but a mate of mine said that the card may be saveable yet, and it could require the oven trick (looked it up, but I dunno if it'll work with a short circuited card), or replacing mosfets, caps, etc. I have some basic soldering experience, and would love to get this card working if it meant saving the 200 dollars or so for a new card.
I'm assuming first step is multimeter testing, I have done this before with a PSU but never a GPU, and any advice, pointers, or links to off-site material would be amazing. I have visually inspected card to best of my limited skill, and there doesn't appear to be any physical solder damage, so I'm assuming (glumly) that the problem is a bit more complicated then remelting some solder.
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