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Gobd
26 Jun 2003, 05:23am
Soo i fixed my gainward card that was having those plaid screen crash problems by myself so i didn't have to wait to RMA it. Heres the pics! :)

New pictures at http://www.overclockage.com/gobd thanks to someone that bought it from me.

The hardest part was ripping off the old capacitors, soldering on the new ones wasn't that hard.
Park_7677
26 Jun 2003, 05:38am
That's great ;D ! Glad you're problems are fixed.
Clutch
26 Jun 2003, 06:07am
nice work, glad to hear you didn't have to rma it. I wouldn't have a steady enough hand to solder that myself.
Thrax
26 Jun 2003, 06:47am
Mine Gainward ti500 crashes with skyblue checkerboards when I move the windows GUI or activate OpenGL for 3d modelling (Max, ms3d)
Gobd
26 Jun 2003, 07:12am
Thrax said
Mine Gainward ti500 crashes with skyblue checkerboards when I move the windows GUI or activate OpenGL for 3d modelling (Max, ms3d)

Wow, never heard of a GeForce 3 having that problem!
dodo
28 Jun 2003, 04:27am
Thats pretty ghetto, and daring.

~dodo
profdlp
28 Jun 2003, 07:22am
Good job.

It would be nice to have a vid of the old capacitors getting smeared.:D


Prof
WuGgaRoO
2 Jul 2003, 04:58am
u my friend...have either balls or stupidity...but judjing from ur engunity...u have huge watermelon sized testicals
Enverex
2 Jul 2003, 03:12pm
Poor card, look how stupid it looks, now all the other cards are going to laugh at it :p

Nice mod job though, I'd be to scared to do it myself.

NS
Gobd
13 Jul 2004, 04:32am
The pics are fixed so I might as well bump my masterpiece for the occasion. It's also right around the first year anniversary! You can find 13 new pictures at http://www.overclockage.com/gobd

All that is missing is the action shots of my cousin destroying the old caps with a rather large sledgehammer and the shots of what types the old caps were. Now at least new people can see what it should like once it's finished.
Thrax
13 Jul 2004, 04:46am
My ti500 never did recover. It met the business end of a crowbar.

Gainward was ****ing useless. Their tech support couldn't speak english, nor were they even willing to help.
bothered
13 Jul 2004, 06:03am
You should be careful smashing the old caps up. The electrolite in some caps is very nasty stuff.