I made an attempt to change out a noisy fan on an ATI Radeon 9600XT. I installed a Zalman VF700-alcu fan/heat sink, and when I powered back up, the screen was corrupted. A new pattern of columns of tightly packed green squares is visible from booting, characters drop out of the screen during the start-up sequence, and once XP loads, the screen has a ghost on almost all characters and icons and there are strange floating letters and characters on the screen. I have either fried the card or have corrupted the video bios, or have to reinstall the drivers.
Any help would be appreciated before I go out and buy a new card.
Any help would be appreciated before I go out and buy a new card.