can softquadro destroy your graphics card?

[Solesurvivor]

snatched this out of the rivatuner faq:

Q: I've performed hardware mod of my R9500 to R9700 and got checkerboards artifacts. Can I fix it with your SoftR9700 script? Will it help me?

A: No, you cannot and it will not help you. SoftR9x00 is a full software analogue of hardware mod, it performs the same thing (i.e. forcing PCI DeviceID at the driver level).

since it is at the driver level, i think it has something to do with your vid card. I read on numerous Doom 3 benchmarking reviews that several high-end nvidia cards just restarted the system because they ran too hot.

[loop29]

No, it cannot damage your card, it´s just a driver tweak and doesn´t do anything to the clock rates or voltage levels. This for example is what reduces lifetime when you oc a piece of hardware. The softmod just enables features that are present on the card, if a feature is not present it just doesn´t perform as it should but can´t do any damage to your card. Did you overclocked your card or raised the voltage through a bios mod? What makes you think that the card is dead, couldn´t it be something else?

regards

[adren@line]

thanks for the replys.

I was playing doom 3 then my screen went blank, no video signal.

smelled smoke, opened up my case, and my card was hot as hell, and the burning smell was coming from it.

[stephen2002]

Softquadro can not hurt your graphics card. It is a software change, nothing more.

Sounds like your graphics card overheated. Perhaps the fan failed? I know BFG likes to overclock their cards out of the box which tends to make them run hotter than others, perhaps you can get it replaced under warantee.

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