Red light ati x1950 pro

[edennil]

Hello,

For about a month now, I've been having problems with my graphics card, an ATI X1950 Pro with 256MB. One of the problems is that when I play games, the VRM temperature skyrockets to 125 degrees, which causes the graphics card to shut down for safety. I think I have that pretty much figured out, because it's obviously an overheating problem.

The second problem is more serious, because when I turn on the PC, it boots up normally, but no image is displayed on the monitor. The only indicator that something is wrong is that when I turn on the PC, a red LED on the graphics card lights up for a few moments. I imagine that can't be a good sign. After searching on Google, I saw that it could be a power supply issue, that it wasn't providing enough power to the graphics card. I had a generic 450W power supply, so it seemed quite possible that it was that, but I put in a new one, a Thermaltake Litepower 600W, and the problem still persists.

Since I don't have components to continue testing, I'd like to know what you think, if it's definitely the graphics card or if it could be something else (motherboard). Mostly so I don't waste money on components unnecessarily.

Best regards and thanks in advance.

[incrediboy]

How long has it been since you cleaned the heat sink of the graphics card?

[ferelxyx]

hello and welcome

at first glance it seems like it's the graphics, because you have it almost burned with so much temp

regards

[CNCBCN]

to start you can try to disassemble the heatsink and change the thermal paste on the GPU. have you ever done it? nothing lasts forever, and thermal paste even less

[Sylver]

+1 to the gentlemen incrediboy, ferelxyx and CNCBCN.

1º Dismantle the heat sink and fan of the graphics card
2º Clean them well of dust and what is left of the thermal paste
3º Buy new thermal paste, put it on and put it all together again
4º Test the equipment with the graphics card to determine if the temperature remains high or if the problem has been solved.

If after this process the problem persists, the graphics card would be ruled out and we would enter to evaluate failures in the motherboard or other components, but first it is important that you try this.

Regards

[edennil]

When it started to fail, the first thing I did was clean it, but it wasn't a thorough cleaning, so I'll try what comentais.De says anyway, that explains the high temperatures it reaches when playing something demanding. But the boot problem, could it also be due to temperature? Because in principle the graphics card at startup shouldn't have much temperature, so it should work without problems, right? Besides, why does it sometimes boot and sometimes not?

PD: measuring the temperature with aida64, right now it shows me 45º in gpu ambient. The gpu field shows me only 9º, which I suspect is wrong, and the vrm temperature value appears sometimes yes and sometimes no. At this moment nothing.

[Sylver]

This intermittence of effectiveness seems to indicate that the graph has already been affected by those peaks of temperature that it has reached on some occasions. We are probably talking about irreparable damage. :nono:

[Raesan]

Feel lucky to have had that graphics card so far, it's been profitable. Check out this post on a last resort to bring a graphics card back to life How to repair a graphics card using an oven and start thinking about a replacement.

[edennil]

xDDDD

What a great idea with the oven, I had no idea.De anyway, I think I won't try such extreme methods. I'll see if a thorough cleaning helps, but I say that the fact that it starts sometimes and sometimes not even when cold, no matter how much the temperatures improve, is not solved. Right now, after playing Modern Warfare 2 for a while, my GPU VRMs temperature has gone up to 117°C and I had already left the game O_O

[Sylver]

@edennil:

xDDDD

What a great point about the oven, I had no idea.De anyway, I think I won't try such extreme methods. I'll see if a thorough cleaning helps, but I say that the fact that it starts sometimes and sometimes not even when cold doesn't get solved even if temperatures improve a lot. Right now, after playing modern warfare 2 for a while, my gpu vrm temperature has gone up to 117º and that's after I had already left the game O_O

So, it doesn't cool well and it's most likely damaged irreversibly.
I would rehabilitate it as I explained before and if it doesn't get solved, oven to the rescue, because you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Regards

[CNCBCN]

1º try to disassemble it completely, change the thermal paste and check the "pads" of the memories, if it still works badly with that :nono: it's time to resort to toasted bread with ATI (without garlic and without tomato and if that doesn't solve the problem either, it's time to dig deep into your pocket :mudo: