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Radeon 9800 Pro failure diagnosis?

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First post, by GadgetBlues

Posted on 2018-09-24, 02:17

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I have a Radeon 9800 Pro that has a screen full of short double vertical lines || overlaying the POST text, each pair about the height of text characters and spaced about 2 characters apart horizontally. It's the same on VGA & DVI.

Does that sound like bad RAM, or do you think it's worth trying to re-cap? There are 5 normal electrolytics, none bulging, and the rest are SMD aluminum.

thanks!

Reply 1 of 2, by stamasd

Posted on 2018-09-26, 13:07

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Sounds like a bad block of memory TBH.

I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O

Reply 2 of 2, by The Serpent Rider

Posted on 2018-09-26, 14:01

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Yep, it's memory. And I bet it's infamous Samsung GDDR memory.

I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.

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