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    gigabyte hd6950 sensors suddenly dead?

    Just as an update: I ended up opening the card (it is surrounded by one of those plastic all-encasing sleeves) and a part (what I assume to be the sensor) dropped straight out. It was a flat little circular piece, a but like a small coin or battery. I located where it had come from (right next...
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    gigabyte hd6950 sensors suddenly dead?

    Ah, yes...I will give that a shot first. Thanks.
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    gigabyte hd6950 sensors suddenly dead?

    Thanks for that. Whether or not I have have access to the fan header, I'm probably not skilled enough to fiddle with it, so I'll call it "dead". It seems an awful waste for a whole card to now be useless because of such a tiny failure. I might try get on to gigagbyte and whinge in their ear a...
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    gigabyte hd6950 sensors suddenly dead?

    The fan on this card suddenly ramped up to 100%--noisy as anything! After multiple restarts the fan remained at 100%. Looking in catalyst, there is no sensor information at all, except the temperature listed as -128 degrees c. I am guessing my sensors have died and the card is maxing out the...
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