On 8/8/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:21, Grant wrote: > > My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the > > temperature in the case during a qt compile. Now I'm seeing all kinds > > of strange and colorful artifacts on the screen, even after the system > > was powered off for several hours with an external fan blowing on it. > > > > Is that definitely the video card? > > Sounds like it. Just in case it has not been totalled you may want to open > the case, remove the video card and use a soft brush and vacuum cleaner to > clean its cooling fan and heatsink. This may be underneath the card and > difficult to reach without taking it out. While you're at it, repeat the > exercise on the CPU.
I'd be very skeptical about using a vacuum cleaner; they generate metric crap tons of static. Canned air may be better. -- Ryan W Sims -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
