Touching card causes artifacts?

diminiondiminion
edited December 2004 in Hardware
Hi,not too sure if this goes here but anyway;

I was recently overclocking my 9800pro and after I found a good config. I wanted to see if the card felt hot, so I touched it. After I touched it my whole screen fubared and looked like I had lots of artifacts on it, so I rebooted it. I at first thought it was because maybe it wasn’t as stable as I thought so I set it to stock timings. I wanted to see if it would happen again and sure enough it did.
Now, I can live with this because I usually won’t touch my components while they are running, but I wondered why this would happen. I was thinking this myself but grease on our fingers shouldn’t do this and static would mess up the card permanently (right?).

Anyways thanks for any info, maybe I just have a card that doesn’t likes to be touched.

Comments

  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited December 2004
    Where on the card did you touch it?
  • diminiondiminion
    edited December 2004
    Dosnt matter. The first time, i touched it on the back of a memory chip which caused it. The seconded time, i touched the backside where the core should be, right next to the Arctic Cooling mounting bracket.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited December 2004
    The only thing I can figure is that either your finger caused a component to heat up rapidly due to not being able to dissipate heat, or you grounded something by touching it.
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Is it seated completely in the AGP slot? Maybe that small bump messes up contact somewhere. I know I was reaching behind my computer one time when it was on and bumped the VGA cable pretty hard and ended up artifacting, blank screen, and VPU recover. I have since reseated the card and have not had the problem again.
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    It seems pretty unlikely that your finger has low enough resistance to short a connection. I'd think heat would dissipate more quickly into your hand than the air as well. As long as static electricity isn't involved, Cyclonite's idea is the best bet IMO.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    I have a simpler fix! Don't touch the card :mullet:
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