oky doky now...i just got me a geforce fx 5200 pci (stop laughing i dont have an agp slot) i overclocked it using powerstrip. when i rebooted my card just started heating up like an oven. it went to about 150 degress f. until i just shut it off, took it out, switched to integrated and im trying to get help on how to un-overclock it. when i start it up the card sends out no signal. any advice...im not too great with computer, so be pretty basic my computer-motherboard:no idea videony geforce fx 5200 128mb ddr cpu4 1.8 ram:256ddr
Reseat the card and make sure the on-board video is disabled, then try booting the system. If you're using the on-board graphics, remove the FX5200 for the time being and then uninstall or disable powerstrip for the time being. As far as overclocking goes, it's something you'll want to take in small increments.
Big B's absolutely right, so do as he says! Also, if you want to eliminate some of that excess heat you may want to grab some Artic Silver, remove & reattach the heatsync. Sometimes OEMs add cheap thermal silicon thermal paste, and sometimes even tin heat-pads between the heatsync and the GPU! Remove all that stuff, clean the GPU with acetone and some q-tips, and reattach the heatsync with a paper-thin layer of Arctic Silver. It might also be a good idea to add springs with higher tension to the heatsync's mounting pads; that way heat is conducted away from the GPU much more efficiently.
ok....the problem isnt the heat, i pretty much got that under control with a ghetto-tastic heatsink i ripped of my onboard and slapped it on the back of my card. then i stuck two more fans ontop of the back with Qtips! and another fan underneath blowing across. when i start up my computer-onboard disabled fx 5200 plugged in-my monitor just goes black. nothing else happens, except my card heats up. woo hoo. big deal... i might have fried it...it got about 150degress (fahrenheit) my computer basically just freezes and is like WTF! when my fx5200 is in. so...yeah. thanks
Strip the system down to its barem inimum and test every component by adding them one by one. Start with the video card (by putting it in every single slot) and see if it changes anything.
i tried that...well i didnt try the last pci slot...but i dontthink that will make any difference... heres the full story-i overclocked my fx 5200 to like 600 core and 800 memory. i used powerstrip. i restarted and my temps just shot waaaay the f*ck up...so i just flipped the switch and turned it off. it was about 150 degrees or higher when i finally turned it off. i put a crap load of fans around it to keep it cool. then i turned it on and i got no signal from the card, like its not responding. so i took it out, put it in different slots. still same black screen on my monitor, and it wasnt just like black, it went into power save mode like it was not plugged in or anything. i took it out and uninstalled the driver-reinstalled (using integrated shit.) and then put it back in. same problem. i got a really bad virus when i was reinstalling norton antivirus and just like wouldnt let me restart so i had to reformat (i tried everything else to no avail) i reinstalled all my drivers, did all the updates to windows and put my card back it-just heats up hella and doesnt do anything. thanks for your time
thats what i have feared...well...thanks for you help all well it was time for an upgrade though..too bad it went out so soon though. i just got it about a month ago
Well, that's a crappy way to learn a lesson. Sorry mate. Next time, you should take it up in slow incraments, and test it for stability and artifacts along the way. Jumping the clocks up 300MHz from the get-go isn't the best way to go about it, especially with powerstrip. You might try the Omegadrive drivers and use the built-in overclocking and artifact testing tools. In any case, an overclock is only good if your system remains stable and you gain performance from the change.
