[CUBE] GeForce 2MX with tower heatsink fails

[Thubten Kunga]

If you tampered with the heat skink it is your fault the card failed. I 
used a GeForce 2MX card with a small heat sink for more than a year 
with no problems whatsoever.

k

On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 04:45  AM, Sergei Zak wrote:

> My GeForce 2MX from a tower with the small original heatsink now gives 
> out
> blurry and bleak colors. (VGA connector) I replaced it with the 
> original
> Rage 128 Pro card. So this is a warning - such cards may live as short 
> as
> 6-8 months till they fail. I could not remove the heatsink when I was
> installing it into my Cube - the glue was just too hard, even frozen. 
> :(
> I cannot check if the ADC connector works fine, though, as I don't 
> have an
> Apple monitor. Maybe it's just the VGA output circuitry gone degraded 
> from
> the internal heat. Damn the glue!
> -- 
> Size matters.
> Xserve™ from Apple.