XFX 9800GT 512MB GDDR3 Redneck Repair

Funny how one chip can make a video card a paper weight LOL!!!

Also forgot to mention is im going to replace it with a new one from ebay which costs $4.

The video card is bit slower than mine because my video card is a OC2 (over clocked).

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• video
• card
• 9800gt
• fxf
• nvidia
• geforce
• mosfet
• fets
• cooling
• pcie
• 16x
• ati
• 512mb
• gddr3

[arehman300]

Hi, I have 9800GT 1 GB. It was working fine and suddenly it crashed. Now when I on my pc it shows dots on main screen and when it goes to windows, it cannot initialize at all saying error code 43 (device disabled due to it has reported problem). How can I check my card to fix it.

[30GB]

@arehman300 it could be that the card overheated so it might be junk but try looking up vids of baking circuit boards in oven

[kng6666]

how to test video card with multimeter ...

can your make a video....please...

[30GB]

@kng6666 every video card is diffrent and the way i tested this was to desolder the fet and test it off the board because theres other ones on parralell

[FreezEntertainment]

hey so how much ram are you using in that machine ??

I have pretty much the same setup (same cpu, hp motherboard, 1.5GB RAM, and a 700 watt psu, with a ATI Radeon x1550 HD[kinda] graphics) with no overclock. what can i do to make it run better and stop randomly crashing ?? should I overclock, more RAM ??

and do you think this setup could run HD a little better ? thanks!

[30GB]

@FreezEntertainment im using only 512mb on this one but my computer is 4gb dual channel so i suggest upgrade your ram to like 4gb and dual core cpu

[guganotubo]

@arehman300 Well, it'll most certainly happen again soon, as it's a fairly frequent issue with thermal shock on BGA soldered chips. I might be on the way of wrecking my card myself (9800gt too) by heating it up to the point of unresponsiveness (~120 degrees Celsius) and then kicking it down to 50C. Unplugging the fan, and plugging it back. Just for fun. (Yes, I'm a crazy idiot.)

[arehman300]

@30GB Thanks for your reply. I heated the main chip with hair dryer and its fixed :)

[GTBenergy]

wow 2 different connectors from gpu what a waste of quality dude

[captainmcduche]

great vid! im a new subscriber but definitely going to watch more!

[jopitan]

Want to buy a new pc? :x

[HDXFH]

Cool, Good to see ya fixed them Better than junking Them, Those FETs Can be replaced, Just gotta find a replacement for a decent price, lol

[silntdoogood]

I love bad caps for free mobos XD

[neonzion7]

i dont think the p4 with hyper threading is slow. I for one, think its fast. A socket 775 Pentium 4 3.06ghz with HT (hyper threading) and 2MB on the L2 cache, is more than enough for the average person. with 2gb of ddr2 ram and a PCIE graphics card made after 2006, it is a very good machine able to run Windows 7 very fast with Aero. I am typing this on a Celeron D single core.... Hyper threading helps ALOT. Hyper threading is compared to what half a core would do so a p4 with HT is like 1.5cores