Let's Say You Want To Screw Up A 3d Card

TychoCelchuuu · July 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">But you don't want to hammer it</div> For reasons I'm not revealing unless you PM me with your area of residence(I'm lonely) I want to figure out if there's a way to wreck a 3d card without having to take a hammer or screwdriver or something to it. I want the card to stop functioning, but look fine on the outside. I would also prefer being able to do this without messing up any other components in my system. Anyone have a way? Can I simply microwave it for 1 minute on high?

Jimmeh · July 2004

Remove it then try and put as big a static charge as possible through it?

TychoCelchuuu · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Jimmeh @ Jul 1 2004, 07:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Remove it then try and put as big a static charge as possible through it?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
What, run around in socks on a carpet?

Monkfish · July 2004

The sock(s) cant be on your feet <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

Jaeger · July 2004

The last time I tried something like this, I removed an old Voodoo3 from my computer and exposed it to some magnets that I "liberated" after our old Taurus was totaled. The card shorted when I hooked it up to the PSU, held it away from the computer, and ran both magnets along the bottom. Apart from the faint burning smell, you couldn't tell that anything happened unless you took a close look underneath the card. The payoff = a brand-new GeForce 2. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

TychoCelchuuu · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Jaeger @ Jul 1 2004, 07:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> The last time I tried something like this, I removed an old Voodoo3 from my computer and exposed it to some magnets that I "liberated" after our old Taurus was totaled. The card shorted when I hooked it up to the PSU, held it away from the computer, and ran both magnets along the bottom. Apart from the faint burning smell, you couldn't tell that anything happened unless you took a close look underneath the card. The payoff = a brand-new GeForce 2. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Would this work without hooking it up to the PSU? Also, exactly how WOULD you hook it up? My VooDoo3000, or my Radeon for that matter, don't have little power supply hookups. To my knowledge.

[WHO]Them · July 2004

Yeah, the last time I did this to one of my cards. I desoldered a capacitor.

I'm guessing this thread is full of people that got the various "replacement plans" available for their cards <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Fina · July 2004

Take off the heatsink, set the drivers to overclock it to the highest possible speeds, then run something like 3dmark to 'burn it in' to death. After 'the deed' has been done, replace the heatsink back onto the card.

GPU's usually crash before burning, but you never know, it might work.

NEO_Phyte · July 2004

ive never attempted something like this, but couldnt you just somehow hook it into a power outlet? or would that create physical damage?

Shadowlinex · July 2004

ummm lets see you can.... take an desert eagle and throw it up in the air and blow 50 holes in it....mmm wait that won't work.

I would just micro wave it on high and duck in cover in case the microwave expoldes.

Just do the static charge thing will work the best.

Caboose · July 2004

I'd personally go with frying it.

Do what was suggested above, remove said heatsink, OC it to the fullest possible sttting, enjoy a nice GPU entensive game or 3D mark it. That should kill it.

Haze · July 2004

You're not going to give this screwed up video card to some jerk that needs one and smirk behing his back because its all f'd up? I've got a strange feeling, my wigger senses are tingling..

Zig · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Shadowlinex @ Jul 1 2004, 03:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ummm lets see you can.... take an desert eagle and throw it up in the air and blow 50 holes in it....mmm wait that won't work.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
assuming you can hit the damn thing with the bigass clunky useless piece of crap.

frickin desert sh_tweasel..

7Bistromath · July 2004

This thread is SO grey-market. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' />

And yes, "grey-market" is now a theoretically measurable quality, like "hardcore," "punk rock," or "flammable."

UnderDOG · July 2004

go into your bios on a restart, goto into the menu that controls power, then change your agp voltage to the maximum it will go.

Warning, *may* cause motherboard problems. I did this by accident, the mb was fine, but the video card was owned.

Infinitum · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (UnderDOG @ Jul 2 2004, 02:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> go into your bios on a restart, goto into the menu that controls power, then change your agp voltage to the maximum it will go.

Warning, *may* cause motherboard problems. I did this by accident, the mb was fine, but the video card was owned.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Yeah overclock it to about 10000x what it's meant to do.

Chaos_Llama · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TychoCelchuuu @ Jul 1 2004, 05:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> For reasons I'm not revealing unless you PM me with your area of residence(I'm lonely) I want to figure out if there's a way to wreck a 3d card without having to take a hammer or screwdriver or something to it. I want the card to stop functioning, but look fine on the outside. I would also prefer being able to do this without messing up any other components in my system. Anyone have a way? Can I simply microwave it for 1 minute on high?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
OMG

I bet he's trying to return it to store for a refund ...

7Bistromath · July 2004

Like I said, this thread is multra* grey-market.

*multra: multiply-ultra. Use this knowledge only for awesome.

RaVe · July 2004

Phshaw. No need for those uber fancy schmansy techniques.

Just get a pencil and join the gold dots. Or join 2 different gold pins, or 3, depends on how evil you want to be.

Guaranteed to confuzzle the circuitry inside because electricity flows through graphite, or enhances. I remember I screwed up someone's Digimon Pendulum thing with ONLY drawing into its circuitry.

TychoCelchuuu · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RaVe @ Jul 2 2004, 05:52 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Phshaw. No need for those uber fancy schmansy techniques.

Just get a pencil and join the gold dots. Or join 2 different gold pins, or 3, depends on how evil you want to be.

Guaranteed to confuzzle the circuitry inside because electricity flows through graphite, or enhances. I remember I screwed up someone's Digimon Pendulum thing with ONLY drawing into its circuitry.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Does it have to be hooked up to some sort of power source? This sounds pretty painless compared to, say, overclocking by 1000 times and hoping my computer doesn't restart to save its soul.

Mr_Headcrab · July 2004

one word: Microwave, 5 seconds

should screw it up, and make it look as if no one tounched it

>:D <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tsa.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tsa.gif' />

Decimator · July 2004

Put the card in a normal sandwich bag, pull it out, put it back in, repeat until card is fried. The static from pulling it out of the bag should fry it fairly quickly.

Xyth · July 2004

Flash a random card bios onto it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />. Download like a network card bios and use Flashrom to put that bios onto it. Make sure you use the command -f though, or it will refuse to put it on. Then start up the computer and see what happens.

GWAR · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Xyth @ Jul 2 2004, 11:08 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Flash a random card bios onto it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />. Download like a network card bios and use Flashrom to put that bios onto it. Make sure you use the command -f though, or it will refuse to put it on. Then start up the computer and see what happens.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
By far, this is the most underhanded way to go about it. No evidence would be left, and the card would be just a nice paperweight.

Ripzaw · July 2004

I can tell you how to fry EVERYTHING in about 20 seconds. Doing 1 thing aswell... Happened to us when we were putting a PC but it kills EVERYTHING, Mouse, Keyboard, MBoard, Monitor, GFX Card, Hard-Drive. You get the point. PM me if you wanna know.

esuna · July 2004

There is but one way to do it. Elbow drop it.

Have a diagram.

Xyth · July 2004

That made me laugh <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />
You could also remove or replace random capacitors on the card then see what happens. Fun fun.

raz0r · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (esuna @ Jul 2 2004, 07:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> There is but one way to do it. Elbow drop it.

Have a diagram.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Rofl, that would work <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Venmoch · July 2004

Surely though you'd hurt your arm?

That and why does the man giving the thumbs up have a remarkable amount of stubble?

Zig · July 2004

esuna has three labrets in his lower lip.

Sirus · July 2004

I was gonna say dragon kick it Esuna. (Simply replace the face in the picture with your video card)

<img src='http://www.fightingmaster.com/actors/jackie/kick.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

But I guess an elbow drop will do.

Let's Say You Want To Screw Up A 3d Card

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