Hi, long time lurker here! I think I royally screwed up, so I decided to make an account and see what you all think.
Anyway, I just changed out SLI'd 675m's for 880m's on my friends Alienware M18x R2.
Long story short, everything seemed to be going good (logged in, began downloading new drivers, etc), until about 3 minutes post boot, when the screen developed a red tint to it. Scared shitless about frying two 880m's, I held the power button until it shut down.
Do you think the red tint is due to me having screwed up somewhere there and the cards are cooking themselves? Normally I'd think I seated something wrong with a video cable, but the fact that this took a couple minutes to happen has the living daylights scared out of me. I'm actually scared to even turn this thing on right now for fear of totally frying them....valid concern or should the cards shut down before permanent damage occurs if I'm cooking them?
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I'm pretty much holding my breath right now.
Thank you!
Anyway, I just changed out SLI'd 675m's for 880m's on my friends Alienware M18x R2.
Long story short, everything seemed to be going good (logged in, began downloading new drivers, etc), until about 3 minutes post boot, when the screen developed a red tint to it. Scared shitless about frying two 880m's, I held the power button until it shut down.
Do you think the red tint is due to me having screwed up somewhere there and the cards are cooking themselves? Normally I'd think I seated something wrong with a video cable, but the fact that this took a couple minutes to happen has the living daylights scared out of me. I'm actually scared to even turn this thing on right now for fear of totally frying them....valid concern or should the cards shut down before permanent damage occurs if I'm cooking them?
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I'm pretty much holding my breath right now.
Thank you!
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